This Situation Just Got Even CRAZIER...| Carolina Hurrianes Update

This situation just got even crazier as insiders reveal a shocking Hurricanes report regarding a big player out of Detroit. What was the offer? Was there a package? What was involved? And there seemed to be more questions than answers. Was. Was this player close to becoming a Hurricane in the offseason? Or was this just another maybe? Welcome to Hurricanes Digest. I'm Jeff Testanero. I invite you all to like, share, comment, subscribe. When you do subscribe, click the notification button and then mosey on over to our X account at Canes Digest for more over there. The off season was full of will they, won't they, maybe, maybe they won't, maybe they will. And most of it was surrounding Connor Hellebuyck. But Simon Edvinsson out of Detroit was also a big question mark. And new rumors and reports have surfaced from some NHL insiders that the Hurricanes were actually serious about Edvinsson. Well, they just signed Nikistan. Was Nikistan part of that? We're gonna take a look today. We're gonna take a little look-see. Carolina's reported interest in Simon Edvinsson dates back to the summer, when Steve Yzerman was still running Detroit's hockey operations. The important distinction is what was reported. An offer sheet around July 1st with a possible plan to trade Edvinsson to a third team, not necessarily the Hurricanes. The reporting does not establish a signed offer sheet or a completed transaction or anything else like that. But I mean, reports come around, things come around. And Elliot Friedman wrote, my understanding is it was right around July 1st that places Carolina's approach before Detroit's general manager trade, right before they dumped Stevie TVY, Edvinsson. You know, he's he's a big name player and the player had explored explored had just recorded nine goals, 16 assists and 25 points in 72 games. Edvinsson averaged around 22 minutes and 21 seconds per appearance during the season. Those figures describe a substantial Detroit role, providing context for the Hurricanes reported interest. How could you not be? I mean, what a player he is. You know, there's interest. There was interest in Simon. And the structure of a transaction are separate questions. Friedman's possible third team element means the reported approach cannot automatically be read as a plan to keep Edmondson in Carolina. Even though, let's face it, they needed another defenseman. They did pretty good next man up, but a big-name defenseman would have been nice for the Stanley Cup champion. The sequence describes an offer sheet threat potentially followed by another transaction. Neither step resulted in a completed arrangement outlined in the report. This is an account of an earlier Carolina approach. It does not. By itself, established an active negotiation today. As we do know, the Hurricanes have re-signed Alex Nikishin to one season. The completed season stats and details about the defensemen involved, Edmondson recorded 149 blocked shots, 94 hits, 26 takeaways, and 89 giveaways. Anyways, those totals sit alongside his scoring output. and workload each measures a different part of you know each recorded season uh any team would be lucky to have him i'm really shocked detroit just can't wrap him up the penalties card show 16 drawn and 32 taken a net difference of minus 16 that adds another measurable element you know to his profile without identifying the circumstance behind every single um penalty for the hurricanes uh these numbers explain the players existing bodies of work they do not establish what carolina offered or why the reported approach failed to produce a transaction So, I'm going to turn it over to you, Dr. I think, personally, I think it had to do with Stevie Harkin. DR. Y was liking what he was seeing from Carolina and Detroit dumped Stevie CHRISTOPHER HARKIN, CUNY CUNY CUNY CUNY CUNY CUNY Y and they said, nope, we're going to do it ourselves. CUNY CUNY CUNY We don't trust anything that Eisenman tried to do. CUNY CUNY CUNY Production describes scoring. Ice time describes development, CUNY CUNY CUNY CUNY deployment, and even total recorded particular actions. CUNY CUNY CUNY CUNY None of those measurements confirm that discussions have resumed CUNY CUNY CUNY CUNY CUNY or that they will resume. They also come from a completed Detroit season with Detroit teammates and assignments. A different team or role would introduce circumstances that these totals don't measure, so we don't really know how he would stack up in Carolina if he stayed in Carolina. My guess is he would have been pretty good. There are no confirmed Hurricanes acquisitions assigned Carolina defensive partners or established projection as what Edmondson might have done. In a Hurricanes uniform, that brings us to the separate question about, did they offer Alexander Nikishin? Nikishin signed his one-year agreement with Carolina on October 25th. The Edmondson approach Friedman describes dates back to July 1st. Those events occurred months apart. Their place on the timeline matters when examining whether the reporting connects the two of them in this deal. Nikishin's rookie regular season produced 11 goals and 33 points in 81 games. That supplies some context about the defenseman Carolina re-signed. It does not establish his involvement in other negotiations, but he was floating around everywhere, so I'm going to assume that he was. The linked article brings Nikishin into the discussion. Through a comparison of restricted free agent contract situation, the comparisons do raise a question about the negotiations and what actually occurred between Raleigh and Detroit. It doesn't report that Nikishin was offered to Detroit. It does not identify him as a return for Edvinson or name him as part of the possible three-team arrangement. But we do know... That Tulsky was listening to offers for Nikishin, so we can only assume he was. The distinction is between an author reporting a possible connection to a source reporting that a connection existed. There have been rumor reports that supply the question, but no reported teams establishing Nikitian's participation in said negotiations. So the answer... you know available from these sources yeah it's limited but one can only imagine what could have been Nikitin's involvement is not 100 confirmed but if you ask me his name was on that offer his signing and Carolina's earlier Edmondson approach aren't really joined into one established Transaction plan. But we can only assume that he was. I'm going with that he was. The other important limit comes directly from Friedman. He wrote, I have no information. This was revisited any time after Detroit's GM change. That is a narrower approach, saying a recent round of hurricanes, talks cooled and then collapsed. Carolina's cap sheet supplies financial context about the organization. Available room on this sheet does not establish that the Hurricanes are negotiating what teams they discuss or whether an agreement can exist. The same applied to the depth chart. It shows Carolina's defensive personnel. They cannot tell us what happened inside a private negotiation or identify an unreported transaction. The strongest source description remains an earlier approach under Detroit's previous management with no reported revival established in Friedman's report. Carolina was interested in Edmondson and the offer sheet around July 1st. According to Friedman, a possible third team element was then reported. The plan did not produce the complete arrangement described and Nikitin was not identified as a participant. I'm going to go with that he was. That leaves the Hurricanes connection grounded in historical reporting. You know, things are out there. Things are being talked about. I'm going to go with they were, you know, pretty serious if, you know, talks had cooled. It established Carolina's earlier exploration of Edmondson while leaving any current discussions about Nikitian's possible involvement unconfirmed. However, I'm going to go with a big yes on that one. So just like Connor Hellebuck. This one can probably go to bed. Nikitian has signed a one-year deal, as we all know. He's working out on the ice with the team. Rod's putting him through a mini training camp, hoping to get him back in soon. Do they need him? Not really. They're rolling pretty hard. It's going to be really hard. I'll be back later with a look into tonight's game versus Nashville. So I would put this one to bed completely as it is. If anything else comes down. I'll be the first to let you know. For Hurricanes Digest, I'm Jeff Testanero. Let's go Canes.