Things are picking up VERY fast...

Things are picking up very quickly for the Detroit Red Wings. After finally officially signing Alex DeBrinket to a contract extension, we get major updates on Simon Edvinson from multiple NHL insiders, and Sean Horcoff, the interim general manager, finally speaks out on what's happening with Dylan Larkin and some insight into the Simon Edvinson situation and what the team is planning to do with him and the contract. We're going to break that all down and much more in this episode of Red Wings Digest. But guys, before we jump into all of that, a quick reminder, to hit that subscribe button we've noticed that a large percentage of you guys who watch these videos on a regular basis are not subscribed to the channel so if you want to stay up to date with everything that's happening with the Red Wings on a daily basis Mark and I are here giving you guys daily updates on everything that's happening with the Red Wings and of course today we get some new news from 32 Thoughts on what's happening with Simon Edvinson but before that we have the fallout from Sean Horcoff finally doing something and signing Alex DeBrinket to a contract extension of course we found out yesterday 13 million dollars over seven years eight points so far this season he's been really really good out of the gate along with a couple other players I actually think Dylan Larkin's been pretty good ironically out of the gate but Alex is everything we want in a Red Wing that is from Sean Horcoff the interim general manager of the Detroit Red Wings and Alex DeBrinket also spoke out and said I really believe in what we're trying to build here so Mark any final thoughts on the contract extension I think we both agree that it's really really good value we see other outlets kind of still dumping on the Red Wings for it taking so long and maybe dumping on Alex to bring it a little bit not here to do that Michigan boy who wants to be a Red Wing got paid a fair amount for what he brings to a team and I'm glad that they got it done well before a trade deadline let's say for example and with the rising cap roll this is going to be a contract that looks good now it's going to look good in the future and even better as the years go on and here I've seen some people talk about it genuinely maybe this is the next captain of the Red Wings if he continues to trend in the right direction he wants to be here from here but at the end of the day I think it's an awesome deal and thankful Sean Horikov finally got was able to do something within this organization yeah because like that's been over everyone's heads for a while can he actually do something they said he could but you haven't yet now we have another update on Simon Edvinsson he remains frustrated with what's happening with his contract negotiations this morning on 32 Thoughts Elliot Friedman revealed that he's heard that uh it's just taking too long and that's what's frustrating him and he would prefer a trade at this point he just wants to play hockey right that's what it sounds like and um Elliot Friedman went on to say that it's just not as easy as saying go to sleep and you'll feel better in the morning there's been too many sleeps that's going to be an all-time quote if he ends up getting traded by the way there's too many sleeps so uh Mark what do you make of this new report because for me with the Simon Edvinson situation i don't understand with a grand slam sitting in front of you if we could take it to a baseball analogy it was a grand slam when you finally had a GM in place to get this done it was the easiest move of all time to get this done honestly like you're gonna pay him a lot and it's gonna be a long-term contract but those are all good things over the course of the long term because of where the cap is going and what other players are getting paid right now it was a slam dunk a home run a break away and you and you fumbled it and now he's frustrated and wants to leave and i think that's ridiculous another quote from friedman as well was that Horakoff has more credibility today than he had yesterday so he went from zero credibility to a tiny bit of credibility it's awesome to see but at the end of this i don't blame all of this on Sean Horakoff of course it falls back on ownership something we've preached for quite some time but you had a guy that was willing to get a long-term deal done before we seen all these huge deals signed throughout the NHL now you're handcuffed with a guy that's saying hey I'm still not signed I'm not happy I want to be out of here you have now not an eight-year window you can sign him to the seven but the Red Wings apparently don't even want to do this and they're lowballing the kid I don't get it at all they could save face with this get Edvinsson signed to a deal bring him back to this organization let him ride it out he's made it clear that of course he wanted to be here before this whole debacle happened around this team but this is a guy that came to camp he came to camp without a damn contract risking losing out on this season if an injury happened he'd make no money because no one's going to sign a guy that's dealing with an injury throughout the entire year looking at the advanced stats it's a good hockey player a young hockey player a player you have the rights of right now the fact you don't have this signed dearest again i'm losing a lot of words without cursing a storm up but this team needs to get their ---- in order at this point because Edvinsson's gonna come to the point of demanding hey i do not care what you offer me i'm not coming back and you're not only resetting the season where you're a worse team now but it's going to make the future look even more bleak than it currently is and you brought it up too i had it up here on screen they are such a better team with him in the lineup i mean the numbers don't lie right like look at this they are so much better with him in the lineup goals for expected uh expected uh four percentage uh also i i didn't even realize the 17th in the league and block shots last season like he does it all he does it all and he wants to get paid he should get paid he should get paid it's the same thing with Alex Ovechkin oh he's gonna make a lot of money yes he's a good player good players make a lot of money you got to sign them lock them up long term now let us know in the comments how you feel about that but Sean Horcoff also spoke on Dylan Larkin which is interesting because we haven't really gotten like a full press conference i guess on that whole situation where you actually got substance and actual insight into the situation what's happening right now because we got that one earlier in the in the preseason but there was no substance there right so a couple other uh updates here before we get into that though from Elliot Friedman as well on Horcoff he has the juice to get things done now because he got that contract extension done with Alex DeBrincat sure man let's see it Edvinson is super frustrated of course Horcoff has talked to other teams but the price apparently is very very high and their main priority is resigning him and Montreal slightly changed the equation but not enough uh the list has not changed for Dylan Larkin speaking of Dylan Larkin it's been a rough month uh for him obviously coming in the boos you know the boos turned to cheers it's been an interesting month and John Horcoff kind of spoke about that and i want to read some of this quote as well he was also speaking about how the injury came at an inopportune time which is true because even you know people like ourselves here on this show were coming out and saying oh yeah he's not actually hurt he's faking it and all that type of stuff we did do that and i apologize for that he was actually hurt but um you know Dylan Larkin has been really really good so far this season uh as well so he's it's not that he's put everything behind him i'm sure he still wants to trade but he's going out there he's doing his job and for that and and for putting himself in front of Red Wings fans on night one even though he was hurt on the bench i do respect him for that too if that was his decision i do respect all of these things but mark what do you make of some of this because again he's playing very well uh so far to start this season the red wings are not playing very well to start this season and um you know a lot of people are talking about you know in the comments of our videos maybe it's time to just pull the trigger trade him to the Minnesota Wild i think it's going to come down to genuinely if we can see Shawn Horcoff have the ability to do this because of course ownership's probably going to have a huge say in it they want to be competitive and how much is this really leaning back on Chris Ilitch saying hey we want a one-tee back for Dylan Larkin which is not going to happen this is a team and the way Dylan Larkin's playing I respect the hell out of him coming out like you said taking the booze and dealing with that going on the ice we see Connor Huberdeau we fall back on this constantly sitting out and not showing up to Jets camp anything in between he's not playing at all and that's putting a hard spot for their GM to move on from a guy if he's not playing if he's sitting and just kind of stalling this thing but Dylan Larkin is at least showing up and every single night trying to help this team win we see them getting in the scrums he's still fighting for his teammates I respect that I don't respect the whole short list that we've seen over the summer but again as things drag on Darius and I hate to even say it can we even blame the guy for wanting to be out of this organization with the way we're seeing things unfold with other free agents the way that stories are coming out that Chris Ilitch has the entire say around the franchise again I wish Dylan Larkin was going to be here but looking at everything that's coming out with everything happening you've got to rip the band-aid this felt like a move that should have been done months ago but again you're at this point he's in the locker room it doesn't seem dysfunctional which is great which is a little bit of a surprise as well but it feels like to bring it an incredible signing by the way but i felt like that was one of the things that would come after the bigger moves that they have to make and dylan larkin's right at the top of the podium well i mean probably edvinson at this point because you thought he would be signed by now but with dylan larkin you need to actually revisit these trades and actually look at it in a clearer space of saying hey we're not getting a one c and i think we need to take futures for this guy they need to take a step back and reevaluate what they want in a trade because what they want in a trade doesn't exist right so i think they can try and get some something of good value still i definitely think they can but not what they're looking for exactly based on reports that we've heard right and also to make something clear too because you said it there i mean chris ilitch does he's the owner he can do whatever he wants like in theory right he does have control of the team but what i think you were trying to say too and i think how we all feel is let people do their jobs let things happen right like we need things to continue to progress here and we need you to make uh to make moves and when i say you i mean Sean Horkoff in this in this spot he needs to be able to do things and it's clear that Chris Ilitch isn't just allowing anybody to do that right and vetoing things and it just sounds like i don't know at this point maybe Dylan Larkin's problem was with Chris Ilitch right like a lot of people have been talking about that too and a lot of people also talking about Simon Evansoff just get it done get it done i keep seeing that in the comments please just bring him home just get the contract done so guys let us know how you feel in the comments below about everything that's happened the last 24 48 hours with Detroit Red Wings Alex DeBrincat signs a great contract we're still waiting on Simon Evansoff to be signed or traded and some insight into what's happening lately with Dylan