{"id":125799,"date":"2022-03-21T14:03:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T18:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=125799"},"modified":"2022-03-21T14:09:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T18:09:13","slug":"detroit-red-wings-trade-defenceman-nick-leddy-to-st-louis-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/03\/21\/detroit-red-wings-trade-defenceman-nick-leddy-to-st-louis-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Red Wings Trade Defenceman Nick Leddy to St Louis Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Red Wings traded defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/leddyni01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nick Leddy<\/a> to the St. Louis Blues. Detroit gets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/w\/walmaja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jake Walman<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/sundqos01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oskar Sundqvist<\/a>, and a 2nd round pick in the 2023 NHL Draft. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/w\/weekeke01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kevin Weekes<\/a> broke news of the deal on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">**Breaking News ** \ud83d\udcf0\ud83d\udea8<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DetroitRedWings?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@DetroitRedWings<\/a> trade  Nick Leddy to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StLouisBlues?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@StLouisBlues<\/a> . <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@espn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLNetwork?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@NHLNetwork<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSNHockey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TSNHockey<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HockeyTwitter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#HockeyTwitter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3XZ3j6BAML\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/3XZ3j6BAML<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kevin Weekes (@KevinWeekes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KevinWeekes\/status\/1505967304420511756?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Nick Leddy Traded By Detroit Red Wings<\/h2>\n<p>Nick Leddy has been the type of player who&#8217;s been involved in trade requests by fans for a while now. While he was with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/islanders\/\" target=\"_self\">New York Islanders<\/a>, they had a love-hate relationship and when his trade happened, they celebrated. It&#8217;s safe to say they could probably use him now instead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/charazd01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zdeno Chara<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/greenan01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andy Greene<\/a>. However, that&#8217;s another story. Now, Leddy has found his new home &#8211; away from Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>The relationship with the Red Wings could&#8217;ve been better. Leddy was <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/07\/16\/islanders-nick-leddy-trade-red-wings\/\" target=\"_self\">traded to Detroit<\/a> for a second-round pick and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/panikri01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richard Panik<\/a>. That took the Islanders out of cap chaos &#8211; and saved them from having to expose him to Seattle in the expansion draft. It was a good deal for both parties.<\/p>\n<p>Most thought he was acquired to help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/seidemo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moritz Seider<\/a> adapt but the rookie turned out to be perfect. Seider never needed any help and now he&#8217;s on the run for the Calder Trophy. The kid is alright. That left Leddy with no more burdens than he already had &#8211; be a top-four defenceman that could help the team in both areas. And to be fair, that&#8217;s what he was for them.<\/p>\n<p>[pickup_prop id=&#8221;9761&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Leddy gave the Red Wings all he had given the Islanders for four years: good transition plays between zones, a little sprinkle of offence and a semi-success in defence. The problem is, the Islanders work on a much more defensive system than Detroit does. And that didn&#8217;t do the defenceman any favours. He struggled with his defensive game in a team that also struggles in that department. It put both in a very delicate situation that led to the trade.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means For The Future<\/h3>\n<p>Even though Leddy struggled, it doesn&#8217;t mean he was all bad, no good. He was still probably the third-best defenceman in Detroit &#8211; behind the rookies Seider and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lindsgu01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gustav Lindstrom<\/a>. That&#8217;s what made him a target for contender teams to add depth to their teams and the Blues ended up with him. Now that the Leddy trade has finally happened, the 30-year-old gets another fresh start &#8211; the fourth in his 12-year career &#8211; in a new team. It can be just what he needs to get himself back together and restructure his game.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"XuQmSXwbSG5aGjVh3eAsPA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com.br\/detail\/1237758921\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'XuQmSXwbSG5aGjVh3eAsPA',sig:'wbKISFfIGuQ0wmuuiEs5Bfa9RDAgjPycsRVKZsJk2E4=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1237758921',caption: true ,tld:'com.br',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Red Wings traded defenceman Nick Leddy to the St. Louis Blues. Detroit gets Jake Walman, Oskar Sundqvist, and a 2nd round pick in the 2023 NHL Draft. Kevin Weekes broke news of the deal on Monday afternoon. **Breaking News ** \ud83d\udcf0\ud83d\udea8@DetroitRedWings trade Nick Leddy to @StLouisBlues . @espn @NHLNetwork @TSNHockey #HockeyTwitter pic.twitter.com\/3XZ3j6BAML &mdash; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3683,"featured_media":125809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,4547,34,4548,32],"tags":[5911,1457,3916,955,965,2674,905,5801],"class_list":["post-125799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-redwings","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","category-blues","tag-detroit-red-wings-news","tag-jake-walman","tag-moritz-seider","tag-nhl-news","tag-nhl-trade-deadline","tag-nick-leddy","tag-oskar-sundqvist","tag-st-louis-blues-news"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3683"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}