The Detroit Red Wings have announced that heart Nate Danielson has been recalled from the group’s AHL affiliate, the Grand Rapids Griffins.
The ninth total choose on the 2023 NHL Draft, Danielson is now in line to make his NHL debut, maybe as early as Sunday’s matinee contest in opposition to 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 group’s NHL roster.
The previous Brandon Wheat Kings captain is in his second season enjoying skilled hockey. He scored 12 targets 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 Pink Wings’ system by Elite Prospects, although his rating there can differ, as The Athletic’s Corey Pronman slotted Danielson because the group’s No. 1 prospect in August. Pronman wrote that he sees Danielson as a future top-six heart, whereas Elite Prospects tasks him extra as a middle-six pivot.
No matter his final NHL position could also be, it’s unlikely he’ll take up that position in Detroit any time quickly. All 4 of the Pink Wings’ NHL facilities (Dylan Larkin, J.T. Compher, Andrew Copp, Michael Rasmussen) are underneath contract a minimum of by means of 2026-27, they usually have a mixed cap hit of almost $23M.
A type of gamers could possibly be shifted to the wing, in fact, as may Danielson, nevertheless it’s vital to nonetheless word how set-in-stone issues look like at heart for the Pink Wings on this short-term future, and that’s earlier than even mentioning the truth that the group’s high choose 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 group’s depth in that space. He’s not but confirmed himself on the NHL stage, in fact, but when his AHL performances are any indication, it might appear that Danielson has a protracted NHL profession forward of him.
Because of this recall, that NHL profession may begin very quickly.
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