{"id":558274,"date":"2026-04-22T22:25:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/558274\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T22:25:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:25:52","slug":"nhl-rumors-its-time-for-the-detroit-red-wings-to-add-some-nhl-calibre-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/558274\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Rumors: It\u2019s Time for the Detroit Red Wings to Add Some NHL-Calibre Players"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis is the offseason that the Detroit Red Wings need to move some of their assets for NHL-calibre players<\/p>\n

Daily Faceoff<\/a>: David Pagnotta, on the Detroit Red Wings on their lack of depth, and offseason where they could move some assets to acquire players. They should follow the Montreal Canadiens\u2019 path of last offseason where they moved some assets for a really good player to help now \u2013 Noah Dobson.<\/p>\n

Irfaan Gaffar: \u201cAny other GM with the lack of success would have been gone a long time ago, but Steve Yzerman ain\u2019t getting fired. So what\u2019s next for the Detroit Red Wings?\u201d<\/p>\n

Pagnotta: \u201cYeah. I mean, look, Stevie\u2019s relationship with ownership, it\u2019s deep. It runs deep.\u201d<\/p>\n

San Jose Sharks \u2013 Celebrini, Ferraro, Mukhamadullin, and Warsofsky<\/a><\/p>\n

Gaffar: \u201cOf course, 100%.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pagnotta: \u201cHe sold his plan, and it\u2019s just starting to bear fruit, in a sense that he rebuilt this cupboard. He filled it up. The prospect pool is deep. Not everyone\u2019s going to hit, but it\u2019s deep. It\u2019s allowed them to create and accumulate young assets that are either going to take the next step to the NHL level, or they\u2019re going to package them up and start moving to bring in NHL-calibre pieces.<\/p>\n

Now, I think they\u2019re at that stage. I think they have to be at that stage. We saw what this team was capable of doing when they\u2019re healthy, but as soon as injuries hit, they drop. And they don\u2019t have the depth to make up for the fact that you\u2019re not going to have, you know, you\u2019re losing Dylan Larkin for two weeks. You\u2019re losing Andrew Copp for two weeks, or three weeks, or whatever it is. You\u2019re losing this guy or that guy who\u2019s going to step up. You don\u2019t have those depth pieces that can step up.<\/p>\n

But I think they\u2019re at the point now, and I believe, I believe management feels this as well. A lot, not a lot of stuff comes out of Detroit. They keep a tight lid on things, but every now and again, a couple things. Talk to some other teams around the league. It sounds like this is going to be an offseason for them to pounce by utilizing a number of their young assets to either again, make the jump, or package some of those pieces up in order to bring in some NHL calibre players, similar to what Montreal did last offseason.<\/p>\n

You packaged two first-round picks and Emil Heineman, who\u2019s solid, serviceable third-line guy, in order to get Noah Dobson. He\u2019s injured right now, but he\u2019s been a stud, and he\u2019s mid-20s.<\/p>\n

Does Toronto Maple Leafs Defenseman Morgan Rielly Need a Change of Scenery?<\/a><\/p>\n

Like that\u2019s what Detroit needs to start doing now. And I think, or if that\u2019s what they\u2019re going to look to do this offseason, is to make a little bit of noise here and start taking those next step, next steps, so that they can be the Montreal of next season. The Buffalo next season. The Ottawa next season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the offseason that the Detroit Red Wings need to move some of their assets for NHL-calibre…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5101],"tags":[599,93,5137,5,4,3358,5138],"class_list":{"0":"post-558274","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\/116450711682135867","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558274","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=558274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}