Red Wings make multiple moves... The truth has FINALLY been revealed | Red Wings News

The Detroit Red Wings have made multiple moves that have serious implications on the team moving forward. But not only that, the truth has finally been revealed behind what Simon Edvinsson has been doing with his training and the behind the scenes of the contract negotiations and trade talks. We're going to break that all down, including some trade talk on the Simon Edvinsson front involving one team in particular and a trade return. That has been reported. We're going to break that all down and much more in this episode of Red Wings Digest. But before we get 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 every single day are not subscribed to the channel. So if you want to stay up to date with everything that's happening with your Red Wings, go down below, hit that free subscribe button. Mark and I will keep you updated every single day. But let's get into it. The Red Wings, we'll start with the moves. They made some interesting moves. So, Nate Danielson, who has been... Outplayed by probably a couple guys here this year, has been sent down to the AHL, back to Grand Rapids Griffins. Now, this season, his time on ice has kind of fluctuated up and down over the course of the entire season, his usage, that is. And you can see that it wasn't just him, by the way. Michael Postava has been sent down as well. He's been fantastic, by the way. And then that lends to John Gibson coming back, and John Leonard has also. been sent down. There's actually a lot of people in the comments. I saw this the other day saying that John Leonard is better than Nate Danielson at this point. So that's pretty interesting. I think Nate Danielson will be able to find it again. There's a lot of promise there, but Mark, what do you make of some of the moves that they made? Again, I think it lends to, um, you know, making sure the development of certain young players are, is going well. And obviously it points to at least in the goaltending department, John Gibson's return. With John Gibson coming back, it makes sense to not carry Posivainen as that extra goaltender not playing games. You get him back to Grand Rapids, he continues to get a lot of starts, so that makes sense. Now with Nate Danielson, I can see both sides. Firstly, you want to get your guy, one of your top prospects, to be in this team and play meaningful minutes in the NHL. Especially in a year when you're missing your top line center and of course Dylan Larkin. But with this, if the guy's not getting into the lineup, if he's going to be kind of bounced yoyoed back and forth between the press box and maybe bottom six minutes, yes, getting him in the AHL, it's going to do two things. One, he's going to get consistent ice time. Two, he's probably going to go down and find his confidence, get that extra motor going. He goes down. If you go on a hot streak, if he scores a goal in a couple of games, sure, then call him up. But I think at the current moment with this team and with how the team views the season, still wanting to make that push, I don't really mind him going down to get those extra minutes, maybe the confidence going. We've seen it work in the past from around the NHL. It does suck to see that maybe this guy hasn't taken that big step that maybe fans and this organization expected. But who were we talking about last year in the same way? It was MBN. And then he did end up taking that step this year and continues to play well. So I'm not giving up hope yet. I'm not saying, you know, anybody calling this guy a bust is unbelievable. Like there's no way, but. Finding his confidence again. I thought that was a good point, Mark, that, you know, that's a big thing. And also it points towards, didn't even mention it yet. There's other returning forwards coming back to the lineup. So Marco Casper and Mason Appleton, who've been on the IR for a long time, are coming back into the lineup. So obviously they have to make room for those guys to come back in off of the injured reserve. So that also is a factor in all of it. And I think they evaluated everyone. They're like, hey, Nate Dahlson's not exactly giving us what we thought. Maybe we... he would at this point great young player still great AHL player and finished last year hurt that was a big factor as to why he wasn't playing in the Calder Cup playoffs so it's gonna be interesting to just keep an eye on you know how that progresses the next little while and see if he does earn himself a call up Back to the NHL, has played very limited time in the NHL so far this year. And speaking of limited time, John Leonard, too, he was sent back down to the AHL as well. So another thing I want to get to, Mark, here is Simon Evanson. And kind of the truth behind why he was skating in Nashville has kind of been revealed. By the way, it also seems as if he's back in Sweden now. We'll get into that in a second. And I saw a report before we get into this in the Nashville stuff. I saw a report that the Red Wings, apparently it's backed into a corner at this point. He wants to be traded. And they want to back him into a corner where they go, we will take this all the way to December 1st to see if you bend, to see if you bend. So that's where we're at, guys. He's not going to be traded or signed until literally the deadline. That's how the Red Wings apparently behind the scenes are treating us. So I don't know how I feel about that. I think I know how I feel about it. It's not great. But anyway, Simon Edvinsson said that the reason he went to Nashville and he was skating there was because knowing Philip Forsberg, Philip Forsberg essentially recommended a local coach and a couple of guys to skate with. Really nothing there, I guess. I guess that makes sense. Just somebody recommended to, you know, for him to skate with other guys to keep in shape. A video was also posted a couple of days ago showing that Simon Evenson at a rink in Sweden. So there could be some, you know, him traveling back now. It doesn't sound like, again, this is happening anytime soon. If they are to make a move here, whether it's a signing or a trademark, to me, again, I saw the report yesterday, sounds like they want to back him into a corner and say, how badly do you want to be traded? Or would you actually sign with us at the 11th hour? When you're looking at Dylan Larkin, making that guy Ben makes sense. A guy that gives you a limited list, someone that's not willing to make it easy on you. But what the hell has this guy done to this organization to be treated like this? Someone that showed up to this year's camp because he wanted to be a part of the team. He rejected offer sheets going into July 1st because he wanted to be with this team. Now you're at the point where the guy doesn't want to be with this team because, again, this is completely the fault of this organization. And how do you treat him? You threaten to go until December 1st. You're letting him go on his world tour of Sweden and Nashville and everywhere but the city of Detroit that needs a guy like this. Darius, I cannot get over this. Again, I said in the last episode, what they do to Dylan Larkin right now. Totally deserved. The guy quit on the team. He's making it hard. He's not making this easy. This guy has done nothing but make this organization have an easy route to sign in an eight year. You missed that timeline to get a seven year deal. You probably missed that timeline now that he doesn't want to be here. Now this guy is going getting recommendations from other players. And of course, Forsberg is from Sweden. They're probably friends. That's fine. But this is a guy. If this organization is truly trying to bend him. There is no hope for this, and I think it's going to affect this team moving forward when a lot of agents aren't going to see how this was handled. And I agree with you to agree to a degree, right? Like, if you look at what happened and progressed through the summer, like you said, he turned down offer sheets. He said, I want to be in Detroit. He could have signed an offer sheet. We know, we learned that, right, earlier in the summer, that there was multiple teams in on him, including Carolina. They were going to sign him to an offer sheet and let go of Alexander Nikishin. And, you know, he said, no, I want to be in Detroit. I'm staying here. He apparently bought his own insurance. I don't know how true that is, but that's the rumor about his own insurance to be able to show up to training camp without a contract, which I've never seen before. Maybe it happened. Correct me if I'm wrong, but never happened, at least to my knowledge, shows up for training camp, then has to go back home to Sweden to continue skating because they didn't sign up before the season started. He wanted to be here the whole time. He wants to be paid fairly Might I add for his contribution for where the cap is going and they want to lowball him, which is a lowball at this point to get him under Mo Sider's contract, which he signed before we knew that the cap was going up this much every single year because he's a worse defenseman than Mo Sider. He's not as good as him, but that doesn't make sense. That's not the real world. That is not how you manage the cap or make. And decisions in the NHL, especially with the cap going up, you have to work with those projections and the percentage of the cap and this team does not know what they're doing on that front. And I've said it time and time again. And Mark, you said it on the channel. I think that's a ridiculous way of doing business. If he is worth in the future, $11 million or $10 million, sign him to that now because it's going to age beautifully by the end of the contract. And instead of lowballing him and essentially pissing him off and disrespecting him. To the point where now he wants to be traded, right? And you could potentially get a good haul for him because David Penyota has now revealed that, yes, it is Michael Misa that's being linked to Detroit. They want young centers. And in this new report, it does outline once again that Detroit is looking for Michael Misa specifically in return from the San Jose Sharks if they are that serious about Simon Edvinsson. So Mark, any final thoughts on that? Because that is the latest on Edvinsson, on the moves that the team has made. But I don't know how many times we can say it on the channel That this was. I mean, I can understand it if you are a low budget, you know, junior team, but this is a NHL franchise, an original six franchise pay the defenseman. And I think it goes into, we've seen the reports that other GMs or people around the league are saying what Detroit is asking for in trade offers are unrealistic and they're hard to deal with. I think it's going to get to the point where you're going to start pissing off general managers, where they're not going to want to do business with you because we know GMs hold grudges. It's been showing around the NHL. And this is the team where what if we see Michael Mesa flipped for another young defenseman within the NHL? You missed your shot at that. That could be your best offer. I'm not saying accept a one-for-one, but you're going to get to the point where you're going to continuously look and put down the cheese in hopes that you get the mouse in the trap and that's going to go somewhere else. And then you're going to have no offer. Dylan Larkin still pissed off at home eating Little Caesars pizza and then a guy going past December 1st not playing hockey for the year because of the incompetence within this group. Yeah, it's a bit ridiculous at this point. People commenting too, you know, if it's not Michael Misa from the Sharks, then you're not getting Evanson at this point because Evanson is a great young defenseman that I will say again, the Red Wings should look to keep. It should be something that you would want to keep in your organization. Guys, let us know how you feel in the comments below about all the moves that they've made. Some of them do make sense. Get a couple of players back from injury. Road trip continues with the big game against the Blues coming up. And Simon Evanson, will he sign? Will he be traded?