{"id":841371,"date":"2026-09-09T04:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T04:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/841371\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T04:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T04:54:11","slug":"debrincat-wants-obviously-to-stay-with-red-wings-despite-teams-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/841371\/","title":{"rendered":"DeBrincat wants \u2018obviously to stay\u2019 with Red Wings despite team\u2019s uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the uncertainty, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/topic\/free-agency\/patrick-kane-signs-two-year-contract-with-chicago-blackhawks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kane signed a two-year, $16 million contract<\/a> ($8 million AAV) with the Chicago Blackhawks on July 23, returning to the team with which he won several individual awards from 2007-2023 and the Stanley Cup in 2010, 2013 and 2015. DeBrincat played with Kane in Chicago from 2017-22 and in Detroit the past three seasons, and they had great chemistry on and off the ice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt (stinks) for me and for our team,\u201d DeBrincat said. \u201cHe was a big part of our team, obviously skill-wise but also leadership-wise. For me, he\u2019s one of my best friends. He\u2019s a guy I hang out with. Our kids are great friends. In that aspect of it, it (stinks). But if he\u2019s going to go anywhere, I\u2019m happy he went to Chicago. I feel like him going back home is probably the story that needed to be written.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeBrincat said he is thinking less about the GM situation and his contract as the season approaches. Training camp opens Sept. 17. The Red Wings open the season against the New York Rangers at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit on Oct. 2 (6:30 p.m. ET; HBO MAX, truTV, TNT).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, at the start, change is scary for anyone,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s just something new. And now I\u2019m more just focused on myself and training and getting back with the guys. That\u2019s out of mind for right now. It\u2019s definitely something where I\u2019m just excited to start this season, and there\u2019s something new I can worry about. Just getting ready for the season is my biggest priority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The players have been skating informally at Little Caesars Arena, and DeBrincat said Larkin has been around the rink. How has he been received after his trade request?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom my perspective, he\u2019s a great teammate, he\u2019s a great friend of mine, and that\u2019s a decision he made,\u201d DeBrincat said. \u201cThat\u2019s about as far as I\u2019m going to go there. He\u2019s always been a great teammate to me and a great friend. I feel like at this moment our team is definitely better with him, and he\u2019s still our leader. He\u2019s still one of our best players. That\u2019s the way it is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amid the uncertainty, Kane signed a two-year, $16 million contract ($8 million AAV) with the Chicago Blackhawks on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-841371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}