Insider drops BOMBSHELL Red Wings Update...

The Red Wings GM search continues to rage on as Chris Illich continues to look for his next general manager but an NHL insider has just dropped a bombshell new report revealing some very interesting key details going into the search process and who will be the next general manager of the Detroit Red Wings. We're going to break down all of these new reports, who's going to be the next GM, some candidates that have been named that will surprise Red Wings fans and much more in this episode of Red Wings Digest. But before we jump into all of that guys, a quick reminder to hit that subscribe button. You'll notice that about 85% of you guys who watch these videos on the regular are not subscribed to the channel. So if you want to stay up to date with everything that's happening with the Red Wings through this GM search with all the Dylan Larkin trade rumors as well, make sure to hit that subscribe button. We're almost at our goal of 5,000 subscribers. Thank you so much for tuning in every single day. And we read the comments. We appreciate all the discourse that's going on down there below because people are passionate. They want the Red Wings to make the right move. And you can see this from Helene St. James. Again, a person within the NHL, so an NHL source has told the free press that Chris Illich hired a search firm. And we kind of knew this, but I want to get into some interesting details and a new report from Elliott Friedman as well in this video, but, uh, to help determine who should replace Steve Iserman as the general manager of the Detroit Red Wings. Now it's believed that he is looking for someone to be analytically driven, which is a good thing. I think that's good news for Red Wings fans. And we covered that a couple of days ago in terms of what the search would look like now from Elliott Friedman, a couple new reports. So buckle up here. There's been a lot of names out there, a person with a little bit of a different background, Jeff Greenberg, who, for those of you Detroit sports fans out there know him as the in the MLB, which is interesting. So it sounds like they're not married to the fact of just hiring, you know, the old school club or anything like that. A guy who's been around for a while. No, they want someone who's analytically driven and somebody who's going to be able to take this team to the next level, which again, in a vacuum, great news for Red Wings fans. I think that's a great thing. This is something that, you know, the league is going that way. These are all good things. Now Elliott Friedman had another report that the Red Wings have indicated that they're open-minded about whether it's one person or two. So again, we've been talking about this throughout the summer. Could it be just the GM? Is it going to be a president and GM one role or one person, I should say, or is it going to be president and GM? And we've been talking about, you know, Jim Rutherford, maybe he is the president and then you hire a GM under him who's younger, more analytically driven, and that could make some sense. So it sounds like the Red Wings are open to that and they're trying to figure out that process. Where have you heard this before? Well, if you're paying attention to, you know, since the regular season ended news around the league, the Toronto Maple Leafs just finished doing the same thing. So a lot of teams are doing this and going this route. It's not uncommon. Now, what the person's background is not necessarily be quote unquote a hockey person as we've come to define them. So again, they're thinking outside the box. They could hire somebody that we've never heard of before. Now, in terms of different candidates that's been named, you could look at Scott White in Dallas. You could look at Evan Gold, who I brought up a couple of times, who was just hired and they missed out on him by the New York Islanders. But somebody of that ilk could end up being the general manager, but then maybe somebody else is the president, or maybe it's a completely different structure entirely where it's one person that isn't a hockey person that comes in. I don't know how I feel about that because I still think there's a human aspect to making decisions in the NHL. I don't think everything is numbers, but a lot of it is looking at the numbers and being able to make decisions based off those as well. So Elliot Friedman went on to say, I do believe you're going to see the initial beginning interview process begin probably next week. And this new report just came out, or this one specifically came out a couple of days ago. So I would imagine start of next week interviews are beginning. Now, what does that mean? This is not moving fast enough. That's what that means. And I've been talking about this on the channel for days at this point. This simply is not moving fast enough. At this rate, if interviews are beginning, you're going to have to go through probably second interviews, maybe in-person interviews, because a lot of these interviews might be over zoom, right? They could be, you know, uh, digital interviews. They could be virtual interviews. That was the word I was looking for, but you know, it could be a lot of that. So you're going through an entire process here. It seems to me like the GM might be in place by September. Ladies and gentlemen, the season starts in September. This year does not start, you know, two weeks into October anymore. The regular season, they're going to be playing preseason games two weeks into September. So it sounds to me, they're going to have a two week window to sign Simon Edmondson and to trade Dylan Larkin. We don't even know if Dylan Larkin is going to be trading yet, but that's a whole other bag of worms. And we talked about that ad nauseum and other videos as well. So that is that now from NHL rumor report among the names were rumored previously to be the general manager, Sean Horcough, who is currently in charge and That would be interesting to me if they go through the whole process and then they end up landing on him and you wasted a bunch of time because he is overseeing it right now. That one's interesting to me. Chris Draper have a field day in the comments. Let me know how you feel about that one. And Scott White, I've talked about him on the channel a lot of, of course, the Dallas stars. I think that'd be a good pick. That might be the pick that's left. If you're talking about combining an analytically driven person with being a hockey person, Scott White, in terms of everyone who's left, that could be a good option. That's relatively young. That makes sense to me, a guy who could build this back up a little bit and has built up, you know, the Dallas stars to a point where they are in the mix every single season. Now, a couple other reports to get to the red wings are using the firm. I don't even know how to pronounce that, but to run the GM search, the firm is run by Len Perna, who used to work for sports. So this is the other thing that a lot of red wings fans are fired up about, um, that I wanted to bring up and let me know how you feel in the comments below. The firm that has been hired is not necessarily a firm that has nothing to do with the red wings or, you know, like a, like a third party or they're technically a third party, but they do have a connection to the Illich family. Right. So that's pretty interesting. I was wondering if they were going to go way outside the box and they haven't done that. And I've seen a lot of discourse about this online that people are not necessarily happy about this because while it is technically, you know, outside, they're not doing the search themselves, the organization that is, there is a connection to the Illich family. So thought that was pretty interesting as well. And you can see this from, uh, the, you know, the grindline podcast. So the founder of the group, the wings are using for the GM search Z R G is the former executive director, general sales manager for Illich sports and entertainment. So there is still very much a connection there. Again, let me know how you feel in the comments below. I've seen either nothing. Uh, you know, some, some outlets are very quiet about it. Some people are not happy about it out there in social media. Let me know how you feel about that. To me, it's interesting because there is that connection there. I would have liked, um, you know, if you're going to go this search firm routes, which other teams have done recently, maybe nobody with connection to the team. I don't know. It's interesting. Let me know how you feel about that. Last thing I'll mention in this episode is the hockey town wordmark and center ice logo is back for next season. So that has fans pretty fired up as well. You can see that that is what the center ice logo will look like. I know it's upside down. Uh, they just finished the, uh, that was a picture from Twitter. I know they just finished it a couple of days ago. This is the red wings, 20, 26, 20, 27 center ice design. And again, a lot of fans, let me know how you feel in the comments below are really happy about this returning. And like fans have pointed out slowly, but surely the more that they bring back from the Joe, the better the team gets, which I think is pretty funny. A lot of people have been outlining that on social media that, you know, you bring back an actual goal horn and a few other things from the Joe. And then now you're bringing back the center ice logo. You're creeping closer and closer to the playoffs, but obviously have not made the playoffs. And while that is fun to make jokes about, that is not exactly why they haven't made the playoffs is because they're abysmal five-on-five and the roster is not that good yet. And speaking of roster, you need to get a general manager in place so he can finalize this roster and make the necessary signings that they still need to do in Simon Evanston. And of course, figure out what they're going to do with Dylan Larkin, ladies and gentlemen, let me know how you feel in the comments below. And we'll see you for another video tomorrow.