Detroit Red Wings Trade Nick Jensen To Washington Capitals

Detroit Red Wings General Manager Ken Holland gets the deadline shenanigans started by moving Nick Jensen to the Washington Capitals. All that’s left is to find a good deal to trade Nyquist, Howard, Daley, Glendening, and whoever else gets trade attention or a reasonable offer.

Soon after the Detroit Red Wings announced a trade that puts a hole in the team’s lineup for their contest with the Minnesota Wild, the Red Wings announced a trade that sends defenseman Nick Jensen and a Buffalo Sabres fifth-round draft pick (acquired in prior trades) to the Washington Capitals in exchange for defenseman Madison Bowey and a second-round draft pick in 2020.

A few hours later, the Washington Capitals announced that they have signed Nick Jensen to a 4-year, $10 million contract extension.

The Red Wings tweeted out the exact deal as well as GM Ken Holland‘s reaction to the trade, both are found below…

Jensen is a late-blooming prospect who at 28, is having a career year and has genuinely seemed to finally figure it out. With 2 goals and 13 assists for 15 points, he may not be scoring left and right for the Red Wings, but he definitely figured some things out and has been producing.

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He is top four on the team in defenseman for CF%, with one of those players being Filip Hronek who has only played in 25 games, Jensen shows his impact better. Jensen contributes silently, he is a quieter guy who may not light up the score sheet but this year has seen his impact increase. The Capitals are getting a solid defenseman to help them make a run to repeat as Stanley Cup Champions.

On the return, the Red Wings are getting a 23-year-old defenseman who has a total of 6 points through 33 games for the Capitals in the 2018-19 season. Bowey merely is viewed as another prospect to add to the already luscious group of prospect defenseman the Red Wings have in the minor leagues.

Bowey’s analytics do not say a whole lot about his current impact to the team, but with him being on a winning team, far better than the Red Wings, there can only be so much expected out of him.

Bowey is more of a depth prospect for the Red Wings and seems to be more of a prospect where, if he pans out that’s great if he doesn’t pan out that’s fine because we got a second-round pick too.

It appears that the value in the Red Wings return package comes in the form of a second-round draft pick in 2020. There is a lot of uncertainty there but Bowey is no Nick Jensen, and profiting a second-round pick for a player who is having a career year looks pretty good for us.

Having Jensen stick around would have ultimately been pretty nice, he is having a career year, Green is doing a great job of mentoring the kid on being that offensive threat and hopefully scoring more, it sucks to see him go but getting a second-round pick for him is pretty solid.

All-in-all it was a pretty fair trade for both sides, Capitals want to win now, and Jensen is an upgrade from Bowey, and they even got him locked down for a few more years, so they obviously see what we see, and like that he is developing well. The Red Wings are rebuilding, and more picks and a “prospect” for a rebuilding team are never a bad thing, I think overall it was a good deal for both sides.