The Detroit Red Wings have announced that middle Nate Danielson has been recalled from the crew’s AHL affiliate, the Grand Rapids Griffins.
The ninth total decide 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 middle 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 crew’s NHL roster.
The previous Brandon Wheat Kings captain is in his second season enjoying 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.
Coming into the season, Danielson was ranked because the No. 7 prospect within the Crimson Wings’ system by Elite Prospects, although his rating there can differ, as The Athletic’s Corey Pronman slotted Danielson because the crew’s No. 1 prospect in August. Pronman wrote that he sees Danielson as a future top-six middle, 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 Crimson Wings’ NHL facilities (Dylan Larkin, J.T. Compher, Andrew Copp, Michael Rasmussen) are beneath contract at the least by 2026-27, they usually have a mixed cap hit of practically $23M.
A kind of gamers could possibly be shifted to the wing, after all, as may Danielson, but it surely’s essential to nonetheless word how set-in-stone issues look like at middle for the Crimson Wings on this short-term future, and that’s earlier than even mentioning the truth that the crew’s prime decide from 2022, Marco Kasper, is a pure middle.
Having an abundance of succesful NHL pivots is hardly an issue, and the addition of Danielson solely additional enhances the crew’s depth in that space. He’s not but confirmed himself on the NHL stage, after all, but when his AHL performances are any indication, it might appear that Danielson has an extended NHL profession forward of him.
Due to this recall, that NHL profession may begin very quickly.
