Detroit Red Wings: Dominic Turgeon Returns On One-Year Contract
By Tyler Kotila
The Detroit Red Wings have brought back a 2014 NHL Entry Draft Prospect, Dominic Turgeon, on a one-year contract. Turgeon will likely spend his time with the Grand Rapids Griffins but could make the team at some point.
Coming off of his entry-level contract, Dominic Turgeon has agreed to terms of a one-year deal valued at $750,000 with the Detroit Red Wings. The reality is that Turgeon, who is twenty-three years old, will spend his time with the Grand Rapids Griffins. Last season, Turgeon had a chance to earn his shot with the NHL team but was beaten out for that spot by Christoffer Ehn.
Turgeon has not been the most impressive of prospects, but at the NHL level, he’s played a total of nine games including four last season. However, for the Griffins, Turgeon managed six goals and fourteen assists for twenty points, being plus-one on the year through seventy-two games played.
The centerman stands at 6-foot-2, 200 pounds for the Griffins (mainly) and will slot into a team full of prospects on the offensive and defensive side of things. Turgeon spent his time with the Portland Winterhawks of the Western Hockey League before signing his entry-level contract with the Red Wings and heading to Grand Rapids.
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Since being drafted and signing in 2016 when he started his tenure with the Griffins, Turgeon has totaled 212 games in the AHL. In his time with the AHL affiliate, he has managed seventy total points coming in the form of twenty-six goals and forty assists. Also during his time with the Griffins, he took home the Calder Cup back in 2017 with five points in twenty-two playoff games that season.
This signing is nothing of excitement, but the thing is he adds depth to a Griffins’ team stocked full of prospects. Around this time last year, Turgeon was considered as the twenty-fifth top prospect in the Red Wings organization, this one year contract could definitely serve as motivation. If Turgeon has his way, he could become an impact player with the Griffins and eventually work his way to the NHL roster. For the time being the signing can be viewed as a minor league depth move.
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The twenty-three-year-old is not “old,” but his days of being a prospect are coming to an end. He could be a late bloomer just as defenseman Nick Jensen was, only time will tell. Turgeon has not shown a lot on the production side of things. The Red Wings can only hope that this changes as the season progresses and Turgeon can hopefully string together a good season worthy of an extension.