Last-Minute News, Rumors, Reports before Red Wings vs Flames

We have some last minute news reports and rumors heading into the Red Wings next game as a young star is budding on this team. We have a major update on one of their goaltenders and his health status. And Todd McClellan offers some insight into what they're trying to accomplish with the Red Wings this year, despite all the turmoil from Dylan Larkin and the Simon Edvinsson situations, how the team is playing right now. And some of the things that Todd McClellan has outlined is a nice distraction from what's been happening. And we're going to break that all down and much more in this episode of Red Wings Digest. But before we jump into all of that, a quick reminder to hit that subscribe button. About 85% of you guys who watch these videos on the regular are not subscribed to the channel. So if you want to stay up to date with everything that's happening with the Red Wings, make sure to hit that subscribe button. Thank you so much for over now 6,000 subscribers. It's been growing very quickly. And Mark and I thank you so much for your support here on the channel. But Mark, let's get right into it. MBN, let's start with him. he's been outstanding i mean he has been everything that we thought that he needed to be coming into this season so far this year eight points so far in 10 games played he is a plus 10 he is throwing a lot of hits he is one of the most physical players for his time on ice in not just rookies the entire national hockey league so far mark so he's been awesome people have been talking about him in the comments below we've been seeing the comments he's playing again like 15 minutes he's making the most of his minutes and he continues to climb up and up the lineup this is a guy last season that you know looking at his production in the AHL you go he's too good for the AHL he needs to be an impact player and we knew that he was going to be at some point in the NHL but Mark we saw him at the end of last season there's a lot of question marks those question marks followed us into the summer we got distracted with some other stuff we were talking about during the summer of course but what do you make of MBN so far because he's been good continues to work his way up the lineup and he's going to continue to get these opportunities i mean the NHL dominant every single year he was down there you looked at him and like you highlighted too good to be down there he made the jump into the NHL for a set number of games just last season and the points never really produced but he never looked out of place it was just a matter of time and that time is now because MBN is putting the league on notice this is a young kid and i want to give a shout out to this development group and all the young players coming through it feels like season after season we've seen with Benny who's stationed on that second line came in last year as a young player and dominated found his spot within this team and is now a second line center which is insane to say and now MBN is doing exactly that despite all the negativity around this team with a first line center former captain still wanting out this is a team that has a hell of a lot of fun things happening and it's the young guys something we've hammered home all off season long is this team truly does have a lot of guys in the weeds fighting and MBN is just the first start of that on the first line one of the most dominant players joining this Red Wings organization this year as full-time Dearest i'm so excited on how he's continued to grow and just going back to the stats once again this is the guy that's producing on every aspect that's scoring assist his on ice production hitting everything this kid is doing is turning heads and i love that this is happening So early in his NHL career Yeah and you also outlined you know Vinny who's you know for as much as we were Talking at the end of last season how bored the Center was on this team you know He's looking pretty good at center too and he continues His development and again MBN to me I said on the channel Multiple times I didn't like his end of the season There was nothing really there and you're like Oh my goodness like what is this player going to be at the NHL level right is he just another Really good AHL player but then he Went to the world championships he looked really good There and then he comes into this season you're like okay there he is he has arrived this is the player right and again he's just playing super well and if you take a look at how the atlantic division is shaping up from the start of the season to today i made the point yesterday the red wings are not out of it yet like this is a team that despite so many distractions despite their own you know uh ownership arrogance whatever word you want to use malpractice all of that stuff they are not out of it yeah they have 11 points and i mean you're just a couple points out of a playoff spot at this point another guy and i brought up here on screen a little bit another guy i want to outline too is Luke Freeman he's been really good to start this season as well he has nine points in 10 games pretty crazy to think that Luke Freeman has less points than MBM right now but uh he is uh continuing his hot streak too he's getting a ton of minutes as well and another guy that Todd McLellan needs to rely on heading into tonight's game it is uh projected i'll use that word that MBM will be on the top line with Freeman and Larkin and then of course uh by the way Arvidsson has been real good too so uh he's another really good bright spot and a nice parting gift from Steve Eiserman the last thing i'll say too on this very quickly i want to move on to John Gibson is uh i see some of the comments too and yeah we did dump on Steve Eiserman but it's okay to change your opinion sometimes as you you know get new information and i think everybody's really opened their eyes to the fact that hey it's probably an ownership thing here at this point like people were like it's probably ownership but maybe Steve Eiserman is making some bad moves i i have to i have to believe that there's probably an internal cap at this point like there's so many puzzling things happening from uh from the top down now John Gibson mark he left the last game uh obviously we know that uh there's some injury troubles on the uh in the goaltending position for Detroit Red Wings but today Todd McLellan revealed that John Gibson will be starting so he's back he got something in his eye in the last game he had to leave the last game that opened the door for Michael Poskova to get his uh first NHL action in that game he looked pretty good i mean 5-1 winning against Vancouver Canucks but uh they continued their road trip John Gibson is back but there's a lot of talk about um you know yes he's a great goalie not the best numbers this year i guess he's a good goalie but a lot of fans seem to want him to be traded hey he's a UFA let's get what we can for him right now and a lot of people are looking at the New York Rangers do you think that they should trade him do you think they should hold on sign the contract extension are some of the younger guys ready Trey Augustine had a brilliant last game in the AHL too he stopped a lot of shots went to overtime and he made a big big save so what do you uh what do you make of this as well i want to say firstly John Gibson getting into this game going against Calgary and Vancouver that's two gifted wins or it should be at least and it's a good way for John Gibson to get back in the groove he looked good versus Vancouver of course that game was totally lopsided in the favor of Detroit which you love to see with the team looking and fighting to stay in the Atlantic race but with John Gibson it's interesting I want to make it very clear I'm a huge fan of John Gibson going back to his day with the Ducks when he was an absolute workhorse he dragged them into playoff games he was on a bad team and finally got destroyed which I guess you could say is a bad team yet again but hey optimism this is a team that's going to end up making the playoffs John Gibson is super interesting because again you know the goaltender of the future is developing and blossoming right now in the AHL with Trey Augustine and you know no matter what happens that is who you want as your number one goaltender Tarasov stepped in and has been lights out since coming of course dealing with an injury hence the cost of a call-up but looking at John Gibson one year left on that contract goalie contracts and of course contracts around the NHL continue to rise so looking at this if you're not going to commit to signing this guy to an extension you can look at it in two ways there is of course the goalie market's a weird one guys like this could be traded for a first we somehow seen with Tristan Jarry joining to Edmonton Oilers but there's other goaltenders that of course go for a little bit less where you see guys go for thirds fourths whatever it might be so if you're in the position I think you wait till Christmas closer to trade deadline because the big thing here is if you're not going to sign him this is your rental for the year if he's going to be your starting goaltender going into the playoffs you're committed to making the playoffs you make the trades and still make that push I like the fact of having a rental for completely free but if the goalie market's there if there's a team offering more than you expect like we've seen with the Edmonton Oilers and Tristan Jarry I think you really got to look into it because there's a lot of questions around the goaltending here and if Tarasov is playing well enough why not give that kid the reins of it and get some actual assets for John Gibson yeah and I think that it's you got to really see how the next little while goes because right now they're one point out of the wild card spot and it's way too early obviously like this division is going to be on fire for the entire season it's going to be tight very tight but and the bruins just seem to never want to die or go away so uh it's going to be tight till the end so i think you need to see how the next month or so goes uh and really see interest around the league as well because what i think is interesting is the rangers are in a very unique situation where you can go out and say hey we know you need a goalie right we know that would you like john gibson he has better numbers or you know if you wanted to compare the two you could and Stanley Cup pedigree and all that type of stuff to Jordan Binnington who's in a similar spot right so I think you need to see how the next little while goes and then make a decision but you're right like Trey Augustine is the goaltender of the future I feel like you might have found something here with Daniil Tarasov who has been playing very well although small sample size with the Red Wings specifically but you also have Michael Poslava who has looked really good too with the Grand Rapids Griffins and earned that call up never mind just injuries right so going to be interesting to see they're still in the mix despite all this turmoil despite missing one of their best defensemen as well will it catch up to them will they trade john gibson there's going to be a lot of questions to ask down the stretch but guys let us know how you feel about everything we discussed today in the comments below john gibson will start tonight and mbn has been on absolute fire