Insider drops BOMBSHELL update on Edvinsson trade talks...

The Detroit Red Wings have turned down at least one serious offer from the San Jose Sharks for defenseman Simon Edmondson. And according to TSN's Pierre Lebrun, Detroit's first name they brought up for Edmondson was San Jose's Michael Misa. My answer is simple. Absolutely not. But there is a version of this trade that I would do that doesn't include the kid Michael Misa. So here's the whole thing. Start with what is actually reported. Elliott Friedman said the Red Wings and Sharks have talked about Edmondson pretty extensively. But he added, quote, I'm not sure what the Sharks are willing to do here. Gino Hard says there was at least one serious offer. Detroit didn't take it. What was in it? Nobody has reported that. Quickly, if you're liking the Sharks breakdown streams, everything we're doing here on the channel, go down below, hit that subscribe button. We're on the road for 4,000 subscribers. San Jose is not alone. LeBron says up to 10 teams are in on him, and he says it's going to take a lot to pry him out of Detroit. Here's the clock. Edmondson is a 23-year-old restricted free agent who is still unsigned. If he isn't signed by December 1st, he can't play this season. Detroit has offered him one, two, five, and seven-year deals, and TSN's Darren Dreger says clearly the money isn't there. So Detroit has a player that wants out, they're working on a deadline, and they have a line of teams waiting to make a trade for this guy, and that's why LeBron is guessing on who comes back. So before we price him, who is Simon Evanson? He's a 6'6", 222-pound defenseman who was drafted 6th overall back in 2021. Last season, 25-26, he played 72 games and scored 9 goals and 25 points. That sounds modest. But look at the ice time. He averaged 22 minutes and 21 seconds a night. Among Detroit defensemen, only North Sider played more. In 2024-25, he played 78 games, scored 31 points, and averaged 21 minutes and 7 seconds. Across his career, it's 175 games and 60 points. So the pitch for Edmondson isn't just him being an offensive threat. He's a guy who's 6'6", who logs heavy minutes every single night. That's rare and that's exactly why 10 teams are currently calling on him and it's also exactly why you shouldn't have to pay a premium for a player like this and in the player he might become. Now let's talk about Detroit because the story has a twist. On October 14th interim GM Sean Horkoff said quote I have zero interest in training Simon Evans. He also said we want to sign him. Two weeks later Friedman says the Wings and Sharks have talked pretty extensively. And that GM is not Steve Aijman. Aijman was removed in July, and Horkoff has been the interim since. The Wings are 6-4-3, 15 points, which puts them 8th in the Atlantic Division. The Sharks are 7-6-1, also 15 points, but that puts them 4th in the Pacific. And George Malik, who covers the Wings, wrote he doesn't believe Detroit trades him unless they get a considerable return. So Detroit isn't waiting. They have a timeline of December 1st, and they have a long list of teams. They're not worried about making this trade tomorrow. Which is why I don't want San Jose to overpay for this player because the time is on the side of the Detroit Red Wings and it only changes if somebody blinks and goes after this trade. But we can wait until December the 1st. We've just seen it with Hellebuck. When his suspension ended, he just got traded right away. So maybe we'll see the same thing here with Evanson and maybe he'll land back in San Jose. And San Jose isn't alone on this. Gino Hart says the Bruins, Predators, Blues, and Kraken have all taken a long look. The Bruins need a partner for Charlie McAvoy, but Friedman says the chatter has quieted down. The Predators reportedly asked him about young centers. Seattle inquired, too, while weighing a Vince Dunn extension. The Blues won't call a missed floated Dvorsky or a package of picks. That's an idea, not enough. And the price tag is something that scares me, because Dobson, Sergachev, Byram, and Nemech are the comparables. So here's the honest read. Plenty of teams have been looking, but nobody has put a package on the table that Detroit has quite liked yet. Now the name, Michael Misa is 19 years old, the second overall pick in 2025, and he cost the Sharks $986,250 against the cap through the 27-28 season. Misa makes $986,250, Evanston is reportedly asking $10-11 million a year. And that gap is the whole argument, Misa is a cheap player who is already scoring and young and developing into a star in this league. Look at the production. Misa has 27 points in 59 NHL games, 0.46 a game. Evanson has 60 points in 175 games, 0.34 a game. Yes, Evanson plays 22 minutes, 21 seconds a night, and Misa plays 13 minutes, 35 a night. That's not a reason to trade Misa. That's a reason to give him more minutes. And the power play part, the part Detroit supposedly needs. Evanson has one power play point in his entire career, and in 25-26, he averaged 14 seconds a game on it. Think about it like selling a rookie car to buy a bigger engine, and you then have to pay $10 million a year for it. So if Misa isn't the answer, what is the price? Now go back to the name Detroit would start with, Michael Misa was the second overall pick back in 2025. As a rookie, he played 45 games and scored 9 goals and 21 points while averaging 12 minutes 49 seconds a night. This season, he's at six points in 14 games, and he's already on the power play. One point there, and one minute, 34 seconds a game on him. He plays center between Marchman and Smith, and October 29th, Plystead made his NHL debut. And that's the point. This team is building around Michael Misa being the second line center of the future for them. You don't want to give that up for an $11 million defenseman. Let me be fair to Detroit. LeBron says Evanston's price is comparable to the Dobson, Serkijev, Byram, and Nemech trades. Dobson costs Montreal two first-round picks and a prospect. Byron costs a first, a second, and a player. Detroit is going to ask for some kind of haul like that again. Sergeyev is the other one. Utah paid Moser, Geeky, and two picks for him. That's two players and two picks for one defenseman. Nemech costs two conditional firsts, a second, and more. So every comp is at least two real assets and usually a first or two. That's the bar Detroit is looking at, and with Evanson not having a contract yet, that should lower the bar quite a bit. And here's my problem with my own package. Title Andrea is 26, he has zero goals and one assist in seven games this year, and he centers the fourth line. A first-round center in his 20s who played top-line minutes, that's what Red Wings fans are asking for, not Title Andrea. So Detroit would want more on paper and that's why the Sharks would need to come to the right kind of war to add to this deal. Here's the package I do. Dimitri Orlov tied to Landry and a first round pick. Start with Orlov. He's the power play defenseman Detroit fans want. Four power play points in 14 games this year and 18 last season. He averages two minutes and 43 seconds a game on the man advantage and Evanson got 14 seconds last season. Now the cap, because that decides everything. Orlov is at $6.5 million, Delandria is at $1.625 million. That's $8.125 million going up. The Sharks have just over $2.5 million of cap space added up, and that's just over $10.6 million of room inside the $10-11 million Evanston is reportedly asking for. It works, but barely. Orlov does have a no trade clause, so we would have to say yes, that's the only real wrinkle in this deal. The firsts are the easy parts here. The Sharks have their firsts in the 2027, 2028, 2029, and 2030. Orloff is on an expiring deal at $6.5 million. You're paying a 35-year-old to leave here. So the math works here. So the real question is, will Detroit take two veterans and a first-round pick? For Simon Evanson, I think the first-round pick makes a lot of difference here on this trade. Another version that I've seen online by a fan was San Jose receiving Edvinson and Detroit receiving Bystead, Musty, Darnell, Nurse, and a 20-27 first. Nurse makes 9.25 million through 29-20-30, and he has no movement loss. Bystead and Musty add about 1.8 million. That's 11.08 million now. Now look at the prospects. Bystead has one NHL game, Musty has none, and 45 points in 61 AHL games. Detroit gets a first, two prospects, and a veteran defenseman in Darnell Nurse, and San Jose receives a 23-year-old defenseman, and they clear up some cap through the 29-30 season. It requires Nurse to waive, but nobody in that deal is Michael Meason. And that's the line. Pay in picks and salary, not in a 19- or 20-year-old center. Edmondson is a great player, right? He's a sixth overall pick. He's played 175 games, averages over 22 minutes a night. I really want him. But Detroit, not San Jose, has the problem here because obviously they're stuck to that December 1st deadline and they have a player who said he would rather leave than sign there. If Detroit holds out till December the 1st, the price is just going to drop and drop as the days go on, because as he's not playing, he's going to be worth less every day. And if it doesn't work, the Sharks are 7-6-1, they sit fourth in the Pacific Division, they're trying to make the playoffs, they get to keep Mize, and he keeps developing, and they get to keep their picks as well that they can turn into somebody else. So they're fine.