Re-Sign or Resign: Sam Gagner

Rick Osentoski-USA TODAY Sports Welcome to Re-Sign or Resign, a new segment covering the pros and cons of Detroit’s pending UFAs. We’ll be taking a closer look at each UFA while going over two schools of thought: re-signing the player, or letting him run free into the sunset. So far, we’ve covered Luke Glendening, Darren Helm, Valtteri Filppula, Marc Staal, and Alex Biega. Today’s topic is defensive king Sam Gagner.

What do Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, and Sam Gagner have in common?

They’ve all scored eight points or more in a single game.

Gagner is the last player in over 30 years to have an eight-point game, and with the way hockey is evolving, it’s unlikely that we’ll see anything like it…