{"id":519225,"date":"2026-03-07T00:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T00:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519225\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T00:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T00:13:07","slug":"red-wings-acquire-justin-faulk-from-blues-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519225\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Wings Acquire Justin Faulk From Blues \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to TSN\u2019s Bruce Garrioch<\/a>, the Detroit Red Wings are considered the frontrunners for defenseman Justin Faulk<\/a> if the Blues end up moving him before the deadline. According to Jeremy Rutherford of The Athletic<\/a>, there is confidence that the two teams were able to place a trade call before the deadline.<\/p>\n

TSN\u2019s Darren Dreger shares<\/a> that a first- and third-round pick are headed to St. Louis. Additionally, Dreger added<\/a> that Justin Holl<\/a> is also going to the Blues. Both teams have confirmed<\/a> the trade, with the Red Wings announcing that prospect Dmitri Buchelnikov<\/a> is also included in the trade. The first-round pick will be Detroit\u2019s first this season and carries no protection per Max Bultman of The Athletic<\/a>, whereas the third-round selection will be the one they acquired from the Pittsburgh Penguins earlier today for Elmer S\u00f6derblom<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Detroit was known to be looking for a right-handed top-four defenseman, and there were few options better than Faulk available. Despite being a competitive team this season, the Red Wings had little else on the blue line behind Simon Edvinsson<\/a> and Moritz Seider<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Not only will Faulk help stabilize Detroit\u2019s defensive corps this season, but he\u2019ll be around next year, too. Thanks to his seven-year, $45.5MM contract extension with the Blues, Faulk is signed through next season at a relatively affordable $6.5MM cap hit. Additionally, he\u2019ll only be owed $4.5MM in actual salary. He does have a 15-team no-trade clause in his contract, but there\u2019s no word if he had to waive it to move to HockeyTown.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>At this stage of his career, Faulk has become a jack-of-all-trades, master of none. He topped out with a 50-point performance with the Blues in the 2022-23 season, but hasn\u2019t gotten close to those totals since.<\/p>\n

Still, he has remained a complete player. Over the last three years, Faulk has averaged six goals and 31 points in 66 games, with over 22 minutes of ice time per game. Furthermore, he consistently blocks over 100 shots a season, which will benefit the trio of Edvinsson, Seider, and Ben Chiarot<\/a>, each of whom has blocked over 100 shots this season.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, although he can offer help on the Red Wings\u2019 power play and penalty kill, Faulk won\u2019t do much to diminish Detroit\u2019s goal-scoring woes at even strength. Of his 94 points throughout the last three seasons, 28 of those have come with a man advantage.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Blues will come out of today\u2019s deadline with a pair of first-round picks in exchange for a few aging veterans. They were already known to be one of the few sellers entering deadline season, and have set themselves up nicely for Alexander Steen<\/a> to take over as the next General Manager.<\/p>\n

Holl will only serve as a warm body for the rest of the regular season. He will become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season after watching his three-year, $10.2MM ($3.4MM AAV) contract expire.<\/p>\n

It was a foregone conclusion that Holl wouldn\u2019t be a part of the Red Wings\u2019 plans this season, but there was little hope the team would be able to clear his salary off the books. After clearing waivers earlier this year, Holl, 34, has spent the entire season with the Grand Rapids Griffins, scoring two goals and 14 points in 41 games with a +19 rating.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the Blues have also acquired a very intriguing prospect in Buchelnikov. The 22-year-old was drafted in the second round of the 2022 NHL Draft by the Red Wings and has been in the KHL ever since.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s made waves in the KHL over the past three years. Playing on three different teams, Buchelnikov has scored 41 goals and 106 points in 159 games. There will be a notable jump once he transitions to professional life in North America, but that\u2019s extremely productive for a younger player in the top professional league on the other hemisphere.<\/p>\n

Photo courtesy of Jeff Curry-Imagn Images.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to TSN\u2019s Bruce Garrioch, the Detroit Red Wings are considered the frontrunners for defenseman Justin Faulk if…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[742,43,180655,105411,44,4247,759,41,39,42,40,4584],"class_list":{"0":"post-519225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-detroit-red-wings","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-justin-faulk","11":"tag-justin-holl","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-newsstand","14":"tag-st-louis-blues","15":"tag-top-news","16":"tag-top-stories","17":"tag-topnews","18":"tag-topstories","19":"tag-transactions"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}