from Craig Custance of The Athletic,
Blashill declined to comment when asked about his contract by The Athletic, but according to an NHL source, after the regular season ends, the Red Wings have seven days to pick up Blashill’s option for next year. If they don’t, he gets a $300,000 buyout and the search for his replacement begins. So there’s going to be certainty fairly quickly after the season, assuming Yzerman keeps the staff together to play out the regular season.
There’s not a lot of financial resistance to making a change here. And if you just step away and examine it clinically, it certainly becomes an easy sell to make a change.