{"id":684924,"date":"2026-10-12T10:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T10:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/684924\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T10:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T10:36:17","slug":"islanders-have-a-complicated-but-not-impossible-path-to-simon-edvinsson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/684924\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders have a complicated but not impossible path to Simon Edvinsson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the Islanders want to take up the maxim of never letting a crisis go to waste, there is an opportunity to parlay <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/07\/sports\/islanders-alexander-romanov-tears-acl-in-another-brutal-injury-blow\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Romanov\u2019s ACL tear<\/a> into a star defenseman, should general manager Mathieu Darche be willing to take considerable risk to get there.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That would be in the form of attempting an offer sheet to Simon Edvinsson, the unsigned 23-year-old restricted free agent who currently is skating in Sweden after the Red Wings \u2014 the league\u2019s clubhouse leader in hot messes \u2014 failed to come to an agreement despite the player reporting to training camp without a contract in place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reports and rumors have swirled around what clearly is a volatile situation that lacks an empowered front office but includes a meddlesome owner and an enraged fan base. Edvinsson prefers a trade, Sportsnet\u2019s Elliotte Friedman reported, though that has yet to be widely confirmed and does not rule out re-signing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Islanders, at present, are not in a position to give an offer sheet. To be clear, there is no indication at all that they are planning to do so. This is a mere hypothetical, not the reporting of a likely outcome, nor advocacy for it.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If the Islanders want to take up the maxim of never letting a crisis go to waste, there&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5101],"tags":[599,93,5137,5,159,4,3358,5138,43,350,336],"class_list":["post-684924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-red-wings","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-detroitredwings","tag-hockey","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-nhl","tag-red-wings","tag-redwings","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117427502038978952","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684924","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=684924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}