Report: Red Wings re-sign RFA forward to new contract.

The Detroit Red Wings have a lot of work to do in the offseason and general manager Ken Holland has already been hard at work.

According to a report from Helen St. James of the Detroit Free Press the Red Wings have signed soon to be restricted free agent Riley Sheahan to a two year contract. 

St. James' revealed the terms of the deal in her report:

The Detroit Red Wings have taken care of one of their restricted free agents.

Forward Riley Sheahan has agreed to terms on a two-year contract with a salary cap hit of $2.075 million.

The contract will take Sheahan, 24, into unrestricted free agency at its conclusion.

While $2.075 million per season is not huge money for Sheahan, the value in this deal from his perspective is the fact that he will be a free agent at the end of his current contract, allowing him to maximize a return for his services on the unrestricted free agent market.

Sheahan had a bit of a down year this season, so it will be interesting how his current contractual status motivates him to perform in the next two seasons.

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