Detroit Red Wings next GM appears to leak and it's an analytical move

The overlooked catch isn't analytics - it's the no-movement clauses already on that desk.

Khan told the Jason Gregor Show that Chris Ilitch could target executives "big on analytics," naming the Hurricanes assistant GM as a shortlist name.

Steve Yzerman is out, and Detroit's search for a new head of hockey operations is underway.

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Carolina's front office, where Dellow works under Eric Tulsky, is built on cost control and on avoiding the contracts Detroit is drowning in.

His job in Raleigh even covers cap and CBA compliance - the discipline Detroit lacked when it signed its current deals.

The Red Wings didn't advertise a general manager job. They announced a "head of hockey operations" search - the same two-tier setup Ilitch runs with the Tigers under Scott Harris and Jeff Greenberg.

Dylan Larkin has five years left on his eight-year, $69.6 million deal, plus a full no-movement clause, and he has already asked out - recently adding Dallas to his approved list.

A value-first executive inherits a captain he cannot move without permission, on a term-heavy deal his own philosophy would never have signed.

Carolina's model treats every contract as an asset to optimize; Yzerman treated Larkin as a legend to protect, and said he wouldn't trade him to appease anyone.

Whoever Ilitch hires becomes a live test: can a value-obsessed front office operate inside a legacy franchise that sells loyalty? Buffalo and New Jersey imported the same thinking without the emotional weight.

Detroit is different. The next hire won't be judged on an expected-goals model first.

He'll be measured on whether ownership lets him treat the captain like a number - the signal for how far this model travels.

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