According to Daily Faceoff’s Tyler Kuehl, the multi-talented Jeff Marek weighed in as to the Red Wings’ attempts to re-sign Simon Edvinsson during Thursday’s episode of DFO Live, saying this about the contract negotiations going sideways:

On Thursday’s edition of Daily Faceoff LIVE, Jeff Marek joined Tyler Yaremchuk and Carter Hutton to explain why the Red Wings are screwing up the Edvinsson contract talks.

Jeff Marek: If you’re Simon Edvinsson, to me, to me the question is, ‘You you don’t want a bridge, right?’ So, you’re not looking at like a three-year deal, a four-year deal. You’re probably looking at, ‘I’m either going to take a two, which gets me to arbitration, or you’re going to take a seven, and a big number.’ We know what the comparables are now, starting with Zeev Buium. After Zeev Buium signed that ticket, I think we all looked around and said, ‘Oh man, what is that going to mean for Simon Edvinsson here, and the Detroit Red Wings?’

So, it feels like it’s one of the two. I understand Detroit’s position in the sense that they have an interim general manager, and they don’t want to get locked into long-term decisions made by someone who’s existing in an interim capacity or a caretaker’s capacity right now. But every time I hear that, I say, ‘Well, that’s the corner you’ve driven this car into, and somehow you have to get it out, right?’ There’s been a whole lot of like rake stepping that happened all summer long with the Detroit Red Wings, and it’s brought you to this. Now, this is only one piece of the puzzle, and you can make the argument that they’re all joined, but there’s Dylan Larkin, there’s Alex DeBrincat, etc., and there’s finding a full-time general manager.

Jeff Marek appears at the 18:36 mark of the podcast: