{"id":429702,"date":"2026-01-26T23:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T23:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/429702\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T23:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T23:36:12","slug":"detroit-loses-key-defenseman-through-olympic-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/429702\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit loses key defenseman through Olympic break"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Detroit Red Wings<\/a> have been one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference this season. They have won eight of their last ten games and have been playing great defense in the process. This is likely going to lead the Red Wings to buy at the trade deadline<\/a>. While things are positive in Detroit, they will have to weather a storm, with one of their key blueliners out through the Olympic break.<\/p>\n

Simon Edvinsson, who has missed the last two games, has now been declared out<\/a> through the Olympic break, according to Kevin Allen of Detroit Hockey Now.<\/p>\n

Head coach Todd McLellan expects that Edvinsson, while missing the next five games, will be back when the Red Wings return after the break, visiting the Ottawa Senators on February 26.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is a significant piece, but we have others that are going to have to go in and play, and they\u2019ve done that already for a couple games and done an admirable job,\u201d McLellan said. \u201cWhen you lose players, there\u2019s all the cliches, somebody else steps up\u2026 Everybody has to pull a little harder and do a little more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edvinsson has been paired with Moritz Seider for most of the season, logging nearly 24 minutes per game in January. Travis Hamonic initially replaced Edvinsson, but it was Jacob Bernard-Docker last time out, pairing with Seider.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look at the Winnipeg game, even the Minnesota game, there\u2019s different pairs of guys going out at different times, and I think that\u2019ll continue,\u201d McLellan added about replacing Edvinsson.<\/p>\n

While Edvinsson will be missing a total of seven games with this lower-body injury, it is not the type of injury that will cause a quick reaction and the need to make an immediate trade.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I came in today and said, hey, Simon\u2019s done for the season, then it may change, but we\u2019re going to get Simon back and, it\u2019s not like he\u2019s going to lose his game anywhere,\u201d McLellan concluded.<\/p>\n

The Red Wings are now 32-16-5 on the campaign<\/a>, good for first place in the Atlantic Division, and tied for the best record in the Eastern Conference. They will return to the ice without their star blueliner on Tuesday night to host the Los Angeles Kings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Red Wings have been one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference this season. They…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5101],"tags":[599,93,5137,5,4,7901,3358,5138],"class_list":{"0":"post-429702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-red-wings","8":"tag-detroit","9":"tag-detroit-red-wings","10":"tag-detroitredwings","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-nhl-injury","14":"tag-red-wings","15":"tag-redwings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115964030771702248","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}