EliteProspects/DLLS Stars/Shap Shots’ Sean Shapiro posted a mailbag feature this morning on his Shap Shots blog, and among his answers to reader questions is this take on the Red Wings’ managerial search:
What is your ideal red wings timeline/series of events from now up until 31 December? (Ie if you thought all pieces feel into place, what would it look like to you?)
Well it starts with hiring a GM before we get to September, which then quickly parlays into signing Simon Edvinsson to an extension.
But let’s put some dates on things to have some fun.
Sept. 1 — Red Wings hire a new GM, let’s go with Peterson for this thought exercise.
Sept. 2 — Red Wings sign Simon Edvinsson to an extension in the $8 million AAV range.
Sept. 10 — The Red Wings trade Dylan Larkin, avoiding the awkward training camp and then announced Moritz Seider as the new captain.
I think, from there, you see what happens. There’s too much right now that can shuffle, in my view, for us to feasibly see what happens into late December.
Continued (paywall); I have a sinking feeling that the Red Wings won’t name a GM until sometime in mid-September, that it’ll cost them at least $8.5 million to sign Simon Edvinsson, and that the situation regarding Dylan Larkin will remain complicated until the team is able to trade him.
