This is EXACTLY What the Red Wings Needed...

This is exactly what the Detroit Red Wings needed after month after month of disaster and disaster. Really, since this offseason started, nothing has went right for this team. In fact, you can probably go back to the trade deadline when they traded for Justin Falk. It's been just mistake after mistake, and finally, they have a big win to talk about. I appreciate you Detroit Red Wings fans who tune into these videos. I know the past I can't even remember how many videos I've done on Detroit have been pretty rough but we're going to be positive on this one and then I'll end off with some questions on what comes next because that big win was bringing back Alex DeBrincat right uh in the previous videos talking about the Detroit Red Wings there were three big questions that Horkoff had to answer and all of them heavily impact the future of this team and I think that the DeBrincat one was the one looming the most right because there was the most you could potentially lose right with the player in the last season of their contract there's a risk of injury right um there's talks of are you going to trade this player what can you get typically when you trade a guy as a free agent you get pennies on the dollar right so there's questions on where you're going to be able to bring him in how much that costs now we have those answers and I'm personally if I was a Red Wings fan I'd be very comfortable with these answers I feel a lot better about the future of this team it also tells me uh that it's very unlikely the Red Wings are going in the full rebuild direction right because you already have your franchise defenseman inside right you have your star wingers right you're gonna have to make some changes right probably when you trade Dylan Larkin as we'll mention in this video right you're gonna have to find some new centers maybe you can get a high pick depending on how the season's going not off to a great start but now you have some stability here to really focus on the rest of these decisions even though Edmonton isn't with the team and I would say this is definitely the next highest priority for the team I felt like in the sense that this situation with the Brinkat was the highest priority because that's the asset that you can lose right even though this Edmonton thing isn't pretty right Edmonton isn't going anywhere he has nowhere to go it's kind of what makes this whole i don't even want to call it a holdout i guess it is a holdout at this point i guess what makes it so interesting but we'll start here by going into the Brinkat contract and then talk about how it impacts Detroit's salary cap because honestly uh some people will talk about oh overpay honestly i I think it's a fair contract anyway, but you look at how much money Detroit has It makes a ton of sense that you got it done for this amount of money because this is not going to impact this team at all. We got the breakdown of the contract from the Detroit Red Wings, and yeah, I got to imagine the admin of this Twitter was really excited to post a win. They've had a couple rough months, you know. They posted Dylan Larkin's birthday. I have to show the videos of pretty much the fans booing him Hasn't been a good start for the team, as we'll talk about as well but the Brinkat staying home it's a seven-year contract worth 13 million dollars per year um get the sticker shock out of the way i understand Connor McDavid's making 12 this is a ton of money this is going to be the price of high impact scores in the NHL and the good thing with this contract when we've seen a lot of players get money that you don't quite know what they are de Brincat absolutely is one of the best scorers in the NHL there really is not much debating that you take a look at what his stats were uh last season 85 points 41 goals right finally clips that 40 goal mark and he's a guy that's just consistent when it comes to that scoring right he's such a good fit for the power play and also i think produces better 5 on 5 than he gets credit for uh if there is one knock on his game i guess you can say he could be better defensively but even then i think he's average defensively i don't think you're having any major issues on defense when it comes to Alex DeBrincat and this is a player that you want to bring back right he's 28 years old so pretty much you look at this contract seven years you're pretty much getting all the prime and this ends when he's 35 you expect him to be able to score assuming health all the way through this contract and it's not like he just had a career year last year yes last year was an incredible season but it wasn't as high in terms of points and he's hit even though 41 goals is his career high he's done this a couple times now where he had 41 last season had 41 with his last season with the Blackhawks he's steadily gotten better for the Red Wings I believe every single season I misspoke there it was his career high in points but even though we'll see what happens in terms of point and he's off to a good start right now with eight points in six games well I don't know if he'll regularly hit that 85 point mark I am confident he'll be in that 35 to 40 goal range uh you saw the Rangers pay Pavel Dorofeyev 11 million dollars i think the Brinkat is a significantly better player than Pavel Dorofeyev right i think he's more money to score those goals every single season he has more of a playmaking elements right so you consider all these crazy contracts going out i don't think this is crazy at all right the contracts gonna keep going higher you got him locked in long term and i think for Detroit it's a huge win that you got that seven year contract because even though he's going to be getting older by the end of that right you have his entire prime and it's these contracts just to continue to balloon right so every single year the salary cap continues to go up right now we now know for the next three years at least it's going to continue to go up 10 million dollars and this is a good move for Detroit it allows you to breathe a bit as a Detroit fan you're looking at this season at one point where especially now you don't know what's gonna happen with Edmondson, you don't want to have a Larkin Everybody's making those trade rumors, having Alex Brinkat in them You don't want to see that This can allow you to breathe a little bit. What it's not going to do is change the standings very much right now. Detroit has had a tough time, and I don't see that getting better, at least until you get Edmondson back Honestly, I don't know if Edmondson fixes all this This might take a little bit with Detroit, and there's a lot of noise in this locker room, which is another reason why I think this is a huge win, to get people to stop talking about Brinkat as well right they'll still be talking about they'll still be talking about Larkin but it'll get a little bit quieter and for the players on the team at least now you know he's gonna be back there's a little bit more certainty on like what this team is going to be in the future because while i do think this will end up being a lost season i think if detroit handles this correctly this can be a one-off season and this doesn't become a five-year six-year rebuild which at some point i feel like we were talking about this summer it got to that point but this year so far they have four points in uh they played five games so it's like six games so far um only one win they do play the flyers in their next game so we talk about potential wins right there that's a big one you don't want to be the first team in the nhl to lose to the flyers and while i i'm sorry flyers fan i kind of want to see how far this streak can go at this point so I'm definitely rooting for Detroit in this one the other thing that comes to mind when it comes to this contract for Dubinsky though is what does it mean for Edvinson and what comes next and I do think Edvinson is pretty much the only thing Detroit can do to really fix the standings a little bit I do think well I don't think he will change everything I do think he can kind of slow the beating and bring this team closer to what they were last year and the division did get better I do think they are due to be the last place team in the specific division but let's take a quick look at their salary cap situation for next season which is why i say i think this can be a one-off and i will note too for fans of free agency who want to see big splashes uh today is a terrible day because uh the brink hat was in my opinion the most likely guy to hit the market that would offer a big splash of course you have your quinn hughes you know the devil's link we'll probably talk about that again at some point especially with the Devils' poor start, I think that kind of changes stuff a little bit, right? Not the worst start, but 6.6 games, not exactly what you're hoping for. Kucherov is also technically going to be available. We don't think he's going to leave Tampa, right? If this does leave at this point, Jared McCann is being the most likely big free agent guy, which is a huge step down, obviously, from the burn cap, but Detroit fans don't want to hear that, right? You don't want your team to leave your team. For you, this is a huge win, and honestly, I like to see when players decide to stick around with the teams they're currently at and battle it out right as opposed to Larkin who just he's had enough of this team but looking at next season the reason why I think this really can be a one-off you look at the cap space projected 46 million dollars that is a ton of money worth noting this season they do have 15 million dollars this contract doesn't kick into next year so you don't really wonder what it's going to take for Edmondson it seems like they have all the resources to get this done keep in mind too yes there are some contracts they need to figure out for next season but you look at it some of the biggest names that don't have contracts are you have uh your young guys like casper and then you have contracts uh you need you need a goaltender right both your goaltenders expire at the end of the season Gibson is the one in particular either you want to bring him back or likely find an upgrade and again you have your goalies in the system so even that's not something you probably expect to spend a ton of money on if you're the Detroit Red Wings then after that the other player that is worth noting is you have Falk and Copp so neither guys who are going to absolutely break the bank so this is a Detroit team that does have a lot of space which is really why I question what is the holdup at this point with Edmonton right because before I was wondering oh maybe Horkoff just he's not able to give really big contracts but we have this update tweet here and I kind of want to go through this uh we're talking about the Red Wings uh interim GM Steve Yzerman and um with this contract it does feel at least maybe ownership just really cared much about uh to bring cap but does show that he has some authority to sign these big contracts and what he had to say in Edmonton was I have zero interest in trading Edmonton and I want to keep him home nothing has changed on my part I think Simon is someone that's very hard to come by we spent a lot of time developing him we drafted him he's a player that we value here that I value especially and I know that everyone in that locker room does as well so it's not something I'm entertaining we want to sign home sign up sign simon sorry islanders slip there and hopefully get that done and this quote is nice right obviously he's a player they really value my question then is what's the hold up right because you have the 40 million dollars you're not going to spend that 40 million dollars and we just talked about free agency you couldn't spend that 40 million dollars if you try so even if he is asking for say a million or two million too much what's the big deal at this point and i understand right there's elements that you don't want to completely overpay for this player but if your organizational line is at nine million dollars and he's asking for eleven and a half at this point is it not just better to sign that contract let me know what you think in the comments below and let me know what you think about that to break that deal do you disagree do you think it's an overpay i i can't see how especially again looking at detroit's salary and how desperate they were for a win did you get a discount on this deal no did you need one no not really you just need to get this deal done I do think this makes Detroit a better team next year right obviously instead of starting over but I'd love to know your thoughts on this and yeah if you have not already be sure to subscribe to the channel appreciate all your support that's gonna do for this episode of NHL Digest