The Detroit Red Wings have announced that heart Nate Danielson has been recalled from the staff’s AHL affiliate, the Grand Rapids Griffins.
The ninth general choose 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 staff’s NHL roster.
The previous Brandon Wheat Kings captain is in his second season taking part in skilled hockey. He scored 12 targets and 39 factors in 72 video games for Grand Rapids final season, and added a objective in three playoff contests.
Coming into the season, Danielson was ranked because the No. 7 prospect within the Purple Wings’ system by Elite Prospects, although his rating there can range, as The Athletic’s Corey Pronman slotted Danielson because the staff’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 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 beneath contract a minimum of by means of 2026-27, and so they have a mixed cap hit of almost $23M.
A type of gamers may very well be shifted to the wing, in fact, as may Danielson, nevertheless it’s vital to nonetheless word how set-in-stone issues seem like at heart for the Purple Wings on this short-term future, and that’s earlier than even citing the truth that the staff’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 staff’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 may begin very quickly.
