The Detroit Red Wings took a short break from their deadline preparation today to add a player to the organization, signing Alexandre Doucet to a three-year entry-level contract. The undrafted forward currently plays with the Halifax Mooseheads of the QMJHL.
Doucet, 21, is playing as an overager in junior this year, but making good on his last chance to show what he can do at the amateur level. Through 58 games, split between Halifax and the Val d’Or Foreurs, he has 45 goals and 89 points.
The Red Wings likely believe they have found a late bloomer, as Doucet was never one of the top prospects in Quebec. Selected in the sixth round of the 2018 QMJHL draft, he would still play another year of midget before jumping to the Q and was a slow starter with just 17 goals over his first two years of junior combined.
Because of his age, Doucet can join the Grand Rapids Griffins next year (and this spring, if his junior season ends in time) to start his professional career.
Too bad he isn’t 6’3″ or bigger. After that 2 game debacle in Ottawa. Totally out muscled both games. Nobody showed, not even our glorified leader, #71. NON EXISTANT. Way to go Larkin. I wouldn’t give you a bag of pucks on your next contract. Maybe it bye, bye softie !! Two days left to boot you out of Detroit. Any Takers !!
It is apparent the game that the NHL is bringing back “old time hockey” with all its thuggery to put more butts in the seats and get a higher viewership. Just a month ago most of the rougher stuff involved in the last 2 games in Ottawa would have been called, and it would have resulted in a more even game. Detroit is built for more of a finesse game. But I gotta hand it to Ottawa because they can play a rough game as well as a highly skill game.
Hockeyboz. I agree completely. Larkin a ghost in pressure situations. Leader and Captain? Last 2 games a great example. Kind of sick of his crybaby antics. Time to go!
Wings need all the talent they can get, from anywhere.