Detroit City Wire

DETROIT – The Detroit Red Wings have signed forward Vladimir Tarasenko to a two-year contract with an average annual value of $4.75 million.

Tarasenko, 32, split the 2023-24 season between the Ottawa Senators and Florida Panthers. He recorded 41 points (17-24-41), a plus-13 rating, and 12 penalty minutes in 57 games with the Senators before tallying 14 points (6-8-14) in 19 regular-season games with the Panthers. The 6-foot-1, 219-pound forward helped the Panthers win their first Stanley Cup championship, logging nine points (5-4-9) in 24 postseason contests.

Tarasenko played the 2022-23 season with the St. Louis Blues and New York Rangers, collecting 29 points (10-19-29) and eight penalty minutes in 38 games with the Blues, along with 21 points (8-13-21) in 31 regular-season games for the Rangers. He captured a Stanley Cup title with St. Louis in 2019, finishing with 17 points (11-6-17) in 26 playoff matchups.

Tarasenko has been selected to four NHL All-Star Games, including three consecutive appearances from 2015 to 2017. Additionally, he was named to the NHL Second All-Star Team in both the 2014–15 and 2015–16 seasons and was a finalist for the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy in the latter year.

Originally selected by St. Louis in the first round (16th overall) of the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, Tarasenko played parts of eleven seasons with the Blues from 2012 to 2023. He ranks among the franchise’s all-time leaders with notable statistics such as fifth place for goals scored (262), seventh for assists (291), fifth for total points (553), sixth for power play goals (65), tenth for power play points (154), first for overtime goals (10), third for game-winning goals (44), and fourth for shots on goal (2,058). In playoff performance metrics within franchise history, he holds second place for goals scored during playoffs at forty-one and is third overall in total playoff points at sixty.

In his entire NHL career thus far, spanning stints with multiple teams including St. Louis Blues, New York Rangers, Ottawa Senators, and Florida Panthers; Tarasenko has compiled totals of six hundred twenty-nine career points across seven hundred fifty-one games alongside one hundred ninety-seven penalty minutes.

Before his time in North America, Tarasenko played parts of two seasons with SKA St. Petersburg in Russia's Kontinental Hockey League where he amassed forty-one points over forty-six games. He also had an earlier stint playing professionally within KHL’s Sibir Novosibirsk team recording ninety-one career point totals through one-hundred-sixty-one appearances therefrom period starting back at age seventeen up until arriving stateside towards entering National Hockey League draft year held back during summer period ending around June ten years ago this year itself now nearly twelve full calendar years elapsed since making initial professional debut.

Internationally speaking: Vladimir represented Russia across several tournaments earning accolades such as winning silver medal IIHF World Championship tournament held Finland during spring months concluding five years ago now additionally participating again three times including prior event ten more recent five yearly intervals apart similarly having won gold medal junior level twice same competition series preceding representing national team Olympics hosted domestically hometown Sochi returning again similar role World Cup events summarily earning distinction notable contributor throughout tenure spent representing home country international ice hockey circuit events spanning decade-long duration career still ongoing present day today