ESPN ranks Red Wings signing as the worst of the summer.

ESPN put together a panel of what they described as "22 leading names in hockey analytics community" with the goal of having this panel take an objective look at all of the offseason's big signings.

On Wednesday that panel's selections for the worst contracts of the entire summer were revealed, and unfortunately for the Detroit Red Wings, one of the moves they made this summer was ranked among those contracts. In fact in the category of "restricted free agent defensemen" the Red Wings came in dead last with their signing of defenseman Danny DeKeyser to a six year $30 million dollar deal. 

DeKeyser's new deal received an abysmal 2.3 percent approval rating from the panel with his poor shot-based metrics being the main point of criticism among those that did not approve of the deal. The panel believes with the Red Wings generating less shot attempts with DeKeyser on the ice(48.8 percent) when compared to those with anyone else(54 percent), the confidence head coach Jeff Blashill has shown in him has not been justified.

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While this panel is certainly not the be all end of all of hockey metrics, it's not a positive look on one of the Red Wings big contracts of the summer, especially with the consensus being "a lot of term and money for a second-pairing guy" according to ESPN.