The Red Wings have found their next STARS...

The Detroit Red Wings have found their next stars as two rookies are playing absolutely lights out, with one of them now opening up a very interesting door to a goaltender trade. We're going to break that down and much more in this episode of Red Wings Digest, including Dylan Larkin not on the ice for practice this morning, and much more including how this team is able to continue winning games with all this turmoil around the team, the organization the fan base ownership so many questions we're going to try and answer some of them here on this episode but before we get into all of that a quick reminder to hit that subscribe button we've noticed that about 85% 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 going on with the Red Wings, Mark and I are here every single day giving you guys updates from trade rumors and reports all the way to MBN we got to talk about him man he is lights out this guy is unbelievable this year and Mark in an off season where we had so many questions about this player because of how last season ended with not just the team but the player himself because it wasn't impressive his time in the NHL at the end of last year but you know what is impressive uh this now and it sounds like the hype is real and that is from Stephen Ellis that yes this is actually a good player and we we kind of knew that right like this is a player in the AHL who was ripping it up he went to the World Championships you know you were talking about it in the summer Mark that in the summer at the World Championship maybe not the summer but the spring you know he was absolutely lights out in that tournament he looked like one of the best players and now he looks like one of the best young players in the entire national Hockey League one thing that i want to point out before i throw it over to you this guy is hitting everything that moves it's not just the skill and putting up points and you know all of that which we knew came with his game we knew that about his game he is throwing the body around he is making it tough to play against him both on the score sheet and physically he's hitting literally again everything that moves he's sixth in the NHL not just rookies in the NHL in hits so mark what do you make of MBN so far this season he's been fantastic and we have one other rookie to talk about too because out of nowhere it just looks like the uh you know the goaltending some of the rookies on this team like they're in really good shape in in that way with MBN the biggest thing is now is looking at a guy of course this is a team where there's a lot of bad things floating around of course you have an unsigned guy you still need to trade your former captain but MBN is the brightest story when it comes out of the Detroit and this is not hating on guys DeBrincat's having a great year he got his extension Raymond Seider all these guys but MBN what we're getting out of such a young player stepping into an organization not only in a bottom six role but in a top role within this team producing goals assists physicality this is what we were missing last season of course losing key guys JVR Patrick Kane all these specialists that came in to score MBN is just better than these guys probably combined at this point and not hating on Patrick Kane he put in some decent years here but again Darius this has been a revolutionary story within this group and genuinely i don't even think he's done yet there's so much room for him to continue to grow you can see this from Stephen Ellis too and he had an article on it this morning i want to put the link in the description so go check it out there's some really good insight in here he said that Red Wings fans have wanted a forward who could hit hard and strike fear into their opponents consistently and not only that again like this is the thing that was missing from the team last year and something that i was talking about in the summer mark that it comes from within it's not like you add a bunch of enforcers to the bottom of your lineup and all of a sudden your team is tough it comes from within some of your best skilled players have to be the toughest players throwing the hits finishing the their checks and all of that and this is a guy that does this he is hard to play against right like he's got the skill he can put the puck in the back of the net and he's gonna hit you he's gonna come flying at you and that is that's hockey man when you're thinking of like the 90s early 2000s like when we grew up thinking of hockey like some of the best players where those like power forward types and now there's like a new age power forward where you could be you know six feet tall but the way that you play could be considered a power forward now look at a guy another prospect Justin Carbonneau who's been labeled that as well with the Saint Louis Blues MBN is kind of that player too where you know he's not a six foot six like enforcer power forward like we used to know like 20 years ago but he is a guy that can score can take it to the net and he hits you right he has that physicality to his game so he's been fantastic and it's not just hits by the way he's just been fantastic in all areas of the ice applying pressure cycle game all that type of stuff so he's been really really good so um he's going to continue to develop he's not you know a bona fide elite player in this league just yet but he is definitely moving there and again after a really slow start to his NHL career um this is this is more than encouraging this is like oh no he's arrived and he's going to continue to grow and by the way he's still a rookie right so really really good stuff there and you can see from Stephen Ellis as well his presence has made that trio so dangerous and that second line has been so good right and Finney at center like credit where credit's due to him too like you know filling in that center position so Mark do you have any final thoughts on MBN and just kind of that dynamic second line that they got going as well I mean with Finney he was the story of last season a guy stepping in into this team and becoming a top six player that helped them push and towards the end of the season looking like maybe they were going to sneak into a playoff spot but now with MBN this is a team year after year and we've said it so much yes there's some bad things happening around but there's so much depth so many young pieces within this team that to our fault as well we don't talk about enough because this is a team that's so many issues but looking at this MBN is just the start of a long list of positive young players that are going to make an impact not only this year but the future of this team genuinely looks better than people probably give it credit for and his ice time slight uptick in that and you also have a uh a slight downturn in his last five games but he's still on pace for what he did um you know early on in the season he's going to continue to get better and i think that's uh really good they're also playing better teams too right so keep that in mind they're actually playing like the edmonton oilers uh the win there just a couple nights ago that was fantastic too so really good stuff from the red wings despite all this turmoil right and he's been super consistent uh and you can see this too from steven ellis keep in mind all of his offense is coming five on five he's been really really good this year so uh he's been fantastic and again just uh super consistent i think in terms of just shot uh production too so i want to see more out of him uh take it you know continue to build off his game take it to the next level but i think we got a bit of a star brewing here and with a former first round pick you would hope that that is the case now another guy we've got to talk about is michael postava and he's been fantastic as well he's always been really good i mean even in the ahl his numbers were really really good he's an undrafted free agent signing he came through he crushed it in grand rapids he gets his first career nhl start against the hottest offense in the nhl ladies and gentlemen against connor mcdavid leon drai side one of the hottest teams in the entire league and he wins he wins he he has ice in his veins and he comes in he wins and there's so many reasons to be nervous going into that game but he it's his first NHL start he got action you know obviously a couple weeks ago uh not weeks ago sorry a game ago against the Vancouver Canucks but um you know an .893 save percentage in this game not horrible but about league average for what it is right now you know and they go into um you know the shootout they win this game great performance Mark what do you make of Michael Kostava because we've been talking about him for a little bit too and last season there was kind of rumblings like hey who are they going to trade is it going to be him is it going to be Kostava because somebody's going out the door with Trey Augustine coming in this year uh they ended up keeping him looks like it could be a really good decision because he looks fantastic and could this open the door with the pipeline that they have in that could this open the door to trading John Gibson this year i mean looking at this guy he came in for Grand Rapids last year in the playoffs and stole the show completely we spoke about a bunch of them during their run in the playoffs but getting up now and watching him play he doesn't seem too nervous between the pipes now of course he's not a top tier starting goaltender in the NHL just yet but looking at the kind of development curve of this guy going from a guy that stepped in signed with Grand Rapids played with them took over the starting spot now getting the call up and of course you still want to leave your other goaltenders down in Grand Rapids to continue getting into it getting their feet wet when it comes to pro hockey but again with Kostava man this is a guy that's continuously impressing at every single level yes it's not a .940 save percentage it's not a shutout in the game but that's an offense that lights up goaltenders every single night and for his first NHL start he did an incredible job I think with John Gibson being a UFA at the end of the season there's going to be some genuine talks around the goaltending of this team who's going to be going out the door because of course it's starting to get crowded which is a good thing you have other guys stepping through as well but Darius again this is a team that genuinely has so much young talent oozing through each and every crack absolutely and uh it's something that they needed we talked about it last year there's too many passengers on this team and they were all older players and now they're letting the kids play and they look pretty good and you see the quote from Todd McLellan after the last game this group's been you know really good considering all the stuff that they've gone through and uh it's been pretty resilient and that it has been if you take a look at the standings today like they're they're in the mix they're in the mix man despite everything that's happened and you know could you imagine if Dylan Larkin didn't request a trade like if everything was just you know great right and they signed Simon Evanson what kind of a position could this team be in with like a vibe like that right like they probably could have been top of the conference again like they were to start last year of course we know it fell off a cliff in March like it has last two seasons but uh they could be in a really good spot right now but all of that you know included they are actually still in a really good spot it's pretty incredible so shout out to the Red Wings and the guys really really playing and they are borderline elite in the goaltending department last thing before you wrap up here mark um dylan larkin was not at red wings practice this morning a lot of people are making a lot of out of it you know oh he's out because he's gonna get traded he's not getting traded yet i think he's gonna get traded but he's not getting traded yet uh and it was announced that it was just maintenance from him and that was from elliot friedman a bunch of different insiders so uh you might be dealing with something he's gonna get traded but i don't think it's today so guys let us know how you feel in the comments below about everything we discussed today lots going on with the red wings a lot of reasons to be excited about the future of this team with some of these guys but of course some major decisions still to be made with simon edvinson and dylan larkin