There comes a time in the hockey offseason where news dries up and the content machine slows to a crawl. This phenomenon usually occurs around August-September. It’s far enough from the draft and free agency that nothing new has come, and too far from the preseason to make any big predictions. This time of the year is commonly referred to (by me) as Offseason Purgatory. The biggest thing in Red Wings land that’s happened over the last few weeks was Filip Zadina signing a contract extension. You can only talk about the potential of that deal for so long!