Defenseman Simon Edvinsson remains unsigned through the first week of November, and the second month of the NHL season as the Detroit Red Wings find themselves floundering after a Halloween loss that seems to continue to haunt the team.

The Red Wings could certainly use the big Swedish defenseman as they find themselves with a difficult schedule ahead against top Atlantic teams including the Florida Panthers, Tampa Bay Lightning, and Boston Bruins. For the moment, however, Edvinsson is still renting ice time in Nashville at the Predators’ facilities.

According to the Lower Broad’s Nick Kieser, who met with Edvinsson in an unofficial capacity, Edvinsson came to the music city after Predators’ forward Filip Forsberg recommended a local skating coach, and “hopes to get something done soon.”

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So far in the month and a half or so of Red Wings interim general manager Shawn Horcoff’s tenure there has not appeared to be much movement in getting Edvinsson re-signed after the team failed to negotiate a contract for him before the end of training camp.

On Oct. 30 TSN’s Darren Dreger reported that the Red Wings have submitted several contract offers to the Swedish blueliner at a variety of term lengths, but with the defenseman still skating in Nashville over the last week, it appears that progress towards pen to paper has stalled out.

Insider Elliotte Friedman stated on a Friday appearance on NHL Now that Edvinsson was adamant about not wanting to play again in Detroit, however, that the Red Wings were willing to wait down until the Dec. 1 deadline to see if a deal can be done, much like Toronto did several years ago with William Nylander.

“Right now there’s a lot of people who seem to think that the Red Wings will, if they want, if the Red Wings feel that ‘if we have to test him to see if his resolve is real’, they’ll do it.” Friedman said.

Interestingly, the Predators will be visiting the Red Wings at home for Detroit’s last game of the month on Nov. 28, two days before the Dec. 1 deadline to sign the defenseman for the season.

Horcoff and the rest of the Detroit brass have been reportedly fending off potential trade partners with an exorbitant trade acquisition cost for Edvinsson in the meanwhile as they work to bring him back into the fold.