A couple of codas to the Alex DeBrincat-to-the-Red Wings saga, one affecting the Islanders, one tangentially so:
Pageau, Wahlstrom Were in Play
This was hinted a few times but mostly in tweets and podcast, so now Andrew Gross of Newsday has the most assertive report that indeed J-G Pageau and Oliver Wahlstrom were in play for the Islanders’ pursuit of the diminutive sniper, but the Senators — who accepted a pretty soft package from the Wings — were unimpressed. One wonders if that reflected cap concerns (they took little money back from Detroit), or if it was another reflection of DeBrincat directing things to the Wings all along.