Steve Yzerman certainly wanted to sign big free agents this week. He explained why the Red Wings didn’t. “We were certainly open to it,” he said Thursday. “The guys that we were hoping to talk to signed before free agency with their club, or got traded in the case of Mitch Marner, we didn’t even get an opportunity to talk to these guys.”

Jeff Saturday signed with the Ravens as an undrafted player, but got cut quickly. Once Jeff Saturday got to Indianapolis, he never let go of the job. Undrafted out of North Carolina in 1998, Saturday became the centerpiece of the Colts’ offensive line for more than a decade, snapping the ball to Peyton Manning and anchoring one of the most explosive offenses in NFL history.