Where Detroit Red Wings are with Simon Edvinsson 2 weeks from deadline

November 14, 2026

TAMPA, FL – The stalemate between the Detroit Red Wings and Simon Edvinsson has two weeks on the clock before a deadline that will cost the player the entire 2026-27 season.

Interim Red Wings general manager Shawn Horcoff said this week while the team was in Florida that he remains committed to signing the 23-year-old defenseman. But with the Dec. 1 deadline closing in, he is, naturally, also listening to any and all calls regarding a possible trade.

Edvinsson’s agent, J.P. Barry, told the Free Press that he is “talking to Shawn daily about solutions.”

If it ends up in a trade, it could bring the Wings what they really need.

Simon Edvinsson during Detroit Red Wings training camp at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026.

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Edvinsson is quite an asset: A 6-foot-6, 220-plus pound defenseman who can skate and make plays with the puck. He had nine goals and 25 points in 72 games in 2025-26, his second full season in the NHL.

The emergence of defensemen Anton Johansson and William Wallinder have helped offset how much the Wings have missed Edvinsson, whom former general manager Steve Yzerman selected at No. 6 in the 2021 draft. Edvinsson could bring in a trade what the Wings desperately need most of all: help at the center position. Emmitt Finnie has done his best centering the top line since Dylan Larkin left the team Oct. 29 to wait out a trade, but the Wings really need a bona fide top-line middle man if they are to ignite a chance of making the playoffs this season and end a 10-year drought.

Giving up a young defenseman of Edvinsson’s caliber is not ideal, but it serves neither side to have him miss an entire NHL season. If the Wings can flip him for a skilled center, be he on the younger side or in his prime, that’s a scenario that could best serve both sides.