Breaking down the fantasy impact of Thomas Vanek signing with the Detroit Red Wings …

Fantasy Impact: Thomas Vanek signed a one-year, $2.6 million contract with the Detroit Red Wings Friday, July 1.

Detroit adds: A 10-time, 20-goal scorer with an excellent offensive resume and skillset. When motivated, Vanek is still capable of being an excellent secondary scorer at this stage of his career, and he can be especially effective with the man advantage.

Foot speed is a glaring issue, but with incentive for another payday, Vanek should take a run at 25 goals and 50 points with the Red Wings.

Fantasy Take: Enduring a clear decline over the past two seasons, and at 32, Vanek's unlikely to return to being the reliable goal scorer and offensive contributor he once was. After the Detroit power play declined significantly last year, though, he does possess the ability to help the Red Wings in that regard, which could buoy his fantasy value.

With Frans Nielsen also entering the fold, there will be some mixing and matching among the forward ranks, but Vanek wasn't brought on board to be anything other than a scorer. In fact, he's likely either going to score or find himself sitting in the press box.

With that in mind, there is definitely some inherent risk tying your wagon to Vanek's fantasy stock. But, at the same time, he's burned fantasy owners enough over the past two seasons that the price of admission should be low.

All said, Vanek's a low-end winger with bounce-back upside to target in the late rounds of drafts. Just note, there are four pretty stable wingers who will likely see more minutes than Vanek: Justin Abdelkader, Tomas Tatar, Dylan Larkin and Gustav Nyquist.

Fantasy Players Impacted: Theoretically, Vanek should help the proficiency of the Detroit power play, but likely just the No. 2 unit. And at this point, it's too early and murky to know how the depth chart will shake out in terms of even-strength linemates.

Vanek should slot somewhere in the middle of lineup, though, which projects to limit offensive opportunities for Anthony Mantha, Teemu Pulkkinen, Andreas Athanasiou and Tomas Jurco. On the flip side, Abdelkader, Tatar, Larkin and Nyquist project to play above him on the wings.

This deal likely has extremely limited fantasy impact outside of continuing to limit the potential growth and playing time of the young Detroit forwards.

Fantasy Players this helps, in order:

1. Vanek, maybe (profile, stats here)

Fantasy Players this hurts, in order:

1. Mantha (profile, stats here)

2. Athanasiou (profile, stats here)

3. Pulkkinen (profile, stats here)

4. Jurco (profile, stats here)