The Detroit Red Wings have announced that heart Nate Danielson has been recalled from the workforce’s AHL affiliate, the Grand Rapids Griffins.
The ninth general decide on the 2023 NHL Draft, Danielson is now in line to make his NHL debut, maybe as early as Sunday’s matinee contest towards the Chicago Blackhawks.
The 21-year-old heart started this season injured earlier than he was reassigned to the AHL on Oct. 24. It took simply 4 video games within the AHL (the place he scored 5 factors) for Danielson to earn a recall to the workforce’s NHL roster.
The previous Brandon Wheat Kings captain is in his second season taking part in skilled hockey. He scored 12 objectives and 39 factors in 72 video games for Grand Rapids final season, and added a aim in three playoff contests.
Getting into the season, Danielson was ranked because the No. 7 prospect within the Purple Wings’ system by Elite Prospects, although his rating there can differ, as The Athletic’s Corey Pronman slotted Danielson because the workforce’s No. 1 prospect in August. Pronman wrote that he sees Danielson as a future top-six heart, whereas Elite Prospects initiatives him extra as a middle-six pivot.
No matter his final NHL function could also be, it’s unlikely he’ll take up that function in Detroit any time quickly. All 4 of the Purple Wings’ NHL facilities (Dylan Larkin, J.T. Compher, Andrew Copp, Michael Rasmussen) are underneath contract not less than by 2026-27, they usually have a mixed cap hit of almost $23M.
A kind of gamers could possibly be shifted to the wing, in fact, as might Danielson, but it surely’s essential to nonetheless observe how set-in-stone issues look like at heart for the Purple Wings on this short-term future, and that’s earlier than even mentioning the truth that the workforce’s prime decide from 2022, Marco Kasper, is a pure heart.
Having an abundance of succesful NHL pivots is hardly an issue, and the addition of Danielson solely additional enhances the workforce’s depth in that space. He’s not but confirmed himself on the NHL degree, in fact, but when his AHL performances are any indication, it will appear that Danielson has an extended NHL profession forward of him.
Because of this recall, that NHL profession might begin very quickly.
