{"id":324967,"date":"2026-04-26T20:39:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=324967"},"modified":"2026-04-26T20:39:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:09:50","slug":"will-steve-yzerman-change-the-detroit-red-wings-roster-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/will-steve-yzerman-change-the-detroit-red-wings-roster-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Steve Yzerman Change the Detroit Red Wings Roster This Summer?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

Elliotte Friedman, on the Friday edition of the 32 Thoughts Podcast with Kyle Bukauskas, discussed the Detroit Red Wings<\/a> situation involving General Manager Steve Yzerman<\/a>. Yzerman made daring statements during his Thursday press conference, saying the Red Wings need higher players. It’s on him to do this, but he still feels his team isn\u2019t there just yet.<\/p>\n

NHLRumors.com Transcription<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s Time for the Detroit Red Wings to Add Some NHL-Calibre Players<\/a><\/p>\n

Elliotte Friedman: \u201cAnd I don\u2019t know if anybody watched Detroit, but man Yzerman looked mad. Yeah, he looked you may tell he was mad. And there\u2019s rather a lot that\u2019s still going to play on the market. He left it open, as he said, I\u2019m going to see it through. I\u2019m not going anywhere, and I wouldn\u2019t expect any different. That guy is not any quitter. You\u2019re going to must drag him out by his arms for him to not attempt to fix it and make it work, but he left the chance open that the structure changes.<\/p>\n

And he definitely talked about player changes. Considered one of the things I suspected was that a 12 months ago, he took criticism, even internally, for not going out and helping them. This 12 months, he helped them, and it still didn\u2019t get them in, and you may tell he was mad on the players. And I believe if you take a have a look at how hard Todd McClellan was on the Red Wings players after that last game, the 8-1 loss to Florida, and I believe everybody understood why he felt that way.<\/p>\n

Yzerman-McClellan up there together and Yzerman giving him a 100% vote of confidence. That was a message, and the message was the team I\u2019ve put together; it\u2019s not adequate. And we already knew that from the undeniable fact that they didn\u2019t get in. But how sometimes managers will defend it, say we weren\u2019t ready. We had some bad luck, perhaps some injuries.<\/p>\n

No, he wasn\u2019t sugar coating anything. It\u2019s what we\u2019ve talked about how Yzermann has admitted he won\u2019t pay prices, and particularly for rentals. Big summer for him, he\u2019s been, he\u2019s put everyone on notice. It\u2019s tough to predict in the event that they don\u2019t like I believe it\u2019s one in every of those things. In the event that they don\u2019t make a giant trade this summer or a giant move this summer, persons are going to be shocked. And he\u2019s walked himself right into a position where he almost has to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

What Will Occur with Steve Yzerman and the Detroit Red Wings?<\/a><\/p>\n

Kyle Bukauskas: \u201cIt’s something when he talked about him and Kris Draper<\/a> talking in regards to the team, even before things went off the skids in March, and going, I\u2019m undecided we\u2019re really nearly as good as our record is saying without delay, and made the moves of the deadline to try to enhance them. But I just do get the sensation that internally there was like, okay, where we’re within the standing says one thing, but whatever they were seeing on the within or simply watching with their eyes on the ice night to nighttime, they\u2019re going, we\u2019re still not close.\u201d<\/p>\n

Friedman: \u201cI\u2019m glad you brought that up, Kyle, because that was really interesting to me, too. Like that wasn\u2019t something he needed to volunteer, right? He makes a degree of claiming that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n

NHLRumors.com Note:<\/strong> It’s now or never for Steve Yzerman and the Detroit Red Wings. He has to make some moves to accumulate the talent mandatory to get this team back to the playoffs. The cabinet is full, and now could be the time to deal. It’s Yzerman\u2019s job to recuperate players, three of whom were Brayden Schenn<\/a>, Quinn Hughes<\/a>, and Vincent Trocheck<\/a>. Something has to provide for the Red Wings.<\/p>\n

We needed to restart our X account. Please follow @MyNHLRumorsX<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Have you ever\u00a0subscribed to our YouTube channel<\/a>? Rumor roundups and hot topics from across the league. We\u2019re also posting some stuff on Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

When you love our reporting, select NHLrumors.com as a preferred source on Google.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n