Toronto — Signing Trevor Daley didn’t generate a ton of headlines.
When the Red Wings signed Daley, then an unrestricted free agent, on July 1, 2017, it was viewed by many analysts as the organization attracting yet another older, diminishing veteran defenseman.
Daley is 35, and now in the second year of a three-year contract worth $9.53 million ($3.178 million salary cap hit), and, no, he isn’t getting any younger.
But Daley has proven to be exactly what the organization wanted, as he prepared Sunday to play in his 1,000th career game, fittingly in his hometown of Toronto.