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Remember when July 1 wasn't just Canada Day, it was Detroit's day?

No team rocked the Kasbah on the annual launch of NHL free agency like the Red Wings. Suitors lined up to sign on the dotted line.

Tuesday, as the free agent period opened, the only sound around Joe Louis Arena was crickets.

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Christian Ehrhoff could have gotten two years and $8 million, but instead signed for one-year and $4 million from the Pittsburgh Penguins.

"My first priority was to be on a good team," Ehrhoff told TSN.

That's got to sting just a little bit, don't you think?

Dan Boyle picked the bright lights of Broadway over Hockeytown for $3.5 million less than the Wings put forth.

The Wings offered Matt Niskanen seven years and $42 million. He chose seven years, $40.25 million from the Washington Capitals.

Just like that, the Wings were the Austin Jackson of free agency - three swings, three misses, go grab some bench - further evidence that Detroit is no longer a destination NHL players covet.

Second-tier defenders also spurned Detroit.

Tom Gilbert already had the offer he accepted from Montreal by the time the Wings called.

Stephane Robidas, saying he wanted to be closer to family, spurned the Wings to take a similar offer from the Toronto Maple Leafs.

The Wings weren't willing to give Anton Stralman the fiveyear term he received from the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Left standing at the altar again and again. It's a trend that is becoming a recurring theme for the Wings.

Remember the spring of 2012, when Zach Parise and Ryan Suter were the prize UFAs? Flying to Suter's Wisconsin home on owner Mike Ilitch's private jet, GM Ken Holland and Wisconsin grad Chris Chelios did the wooing.

They boarded the return flight certain they had their man.

But Suter signed with the Minnesota Wild.