Most of all, Tomas Tatar is relieved.
Relieved he has four more years of job security, relief he is staying with the only NHL team he has known, relief he doesn’t have to move.
Relief, too, for a stranger in the Czech Republic.
A day before an arbitrator would have announced a decision on a one-year contract, the Detroit Red Wings and Tomas Tatar struck a deal on a $21.2-million deal that carries an annual average value of $5.3 million.
“It’s really exciting we find way to get deal done,” Tatar said this evening on a conference call.