{"id":542088,"date":"2026-04-05T13:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/542088\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T13:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:32:12","slug":"if-the-detroit-red-wings-miss-the-playoffs-again-would-they-consider-trading-alex-debrincat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/542088\/","title":{"rendered":"If the Detroit Red Wings Miss the Playoffs Again, Would They Consider Trading Alex DeBrincat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the Detroit Red Wings miss the playoffs again and are looking to shake things up, would they consider trading Alex DeBrincat?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/video\/could-red-wings-move-on-from-debrincat-should-they-miss-playoffs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportsnet<\/a>: Elliotte Friedman on The FAN Hockey Show on Detroit Red Wings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/debrial01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=nhlrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-03_hr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored\" target=\"_blank\">Alex DeBrincat<\/a>. Matt Marchese wonders if the Red Wings would consider moving forward DeBrincat if they miss the playoffs again and want to shake things up. Friedman doubts it.<\/p>\n<p>** NHLRumors.com transicription<\/p>\n<p>Marchese: \u201cBut man, Alex, Alex DeBrincat back to back, 39-goal seasons. He is, I was looking at this yesterday, this guy has missed four games his entire NHL career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>a<\/p>\n<p>Friedman: \u201cYeah, steady guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marchese: \u201cAnd he\u2019s working on pretty incredible Iron Man streak. I like, to me it\u2019s, it\u2019s a credit to, he\u2019s a smaller player. Like, it kind of reminds me of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kesseph01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=nhlrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-03_hr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored\" target=\"_blank\">Phil Kessel<\/a> and that Iron Man streak. Phil had different things that people were like, how the heck did he do it? But DeBrincat, like being a smaller guy, he doesn\u2019t shy away. He\u2019s not a guy that is afraid of going into certain areas.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also extension eligible on July 1st. Like, I wonder if Detroit, if they get in, okay, it\u2019s one thing, but if they don\u2019t, I wonder where things head with Alex DeBrincat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Friedman: \u201cWell, I think the thing is, like, I don\u2019t know if I wonder that much. Like, the hardest thing to do in this league is score, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marchese: \u201cYep.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Friedman: \u201cYou know the first thing you do, I mean, who knows? Like, but the first thing you do when you trade a guy like Alex DeBrincat is, let\u2019s say, Uh-oh, where do we find 39 goals from?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marchese: \u201cWe look for Alex DeBrincat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Friedman: \u201cExactly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mike Futa: \u201cHe loves it there, why would he \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marchese: \u201cNo, no, look, I\u2019m saying, if they, if they look and say, \u2018Something\u2019s got to change here.\u2019 I wonder if that\u2019s the direct(ion), with a guy with one year left on his deal. That\u2019s going to be a big ticket.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Friedman: \u201cI don\u2019t know. Like, anything can happen, Matt. Like, I like, I\u2019m not coming at this from a place of knowledge, like, I\u2019ve looked into what\u2019s happening with DeBrincat here. But, you know, I think this, like, those guys are hard to find.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If the Detroit Red Wings miss the playoffs again and are looking to shake things up, would they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5101],"tags":[599,93,5137,5,4,3358,5138],"class_list":{"0":"post-542088","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-red-wings","14":"tag-redwings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116352355158823957","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542088","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=542088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}