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Last week, NHL Insider Darren Dreger had a worthwhile tidbit on the Jacob Trouba trade front.

“I know that Cheveldayoff received several offers during the summer. I know that one came from Detroit,” Dreger noted then while on Ottawa’s TSN 1200. “I’m told that it involved two of their higher-level forwards, and Holland wasn’t willing or able to stomach that. As much as the Detroit Red Wings need defense, they can’t move out multiple pieces of scoring, otherwise they fill one hole and dig another.

“But none of the offers that were made on Trouba were obviously good enough, or we wouldn’t be having this conversation.”

Dreger: Red Wings made summer trade offer to Jets for Trouba

Tuesday afternoon, while on Vancouver’s TSN 1040, Dreger elaborated on this angle during another Trouba discussion.

“I mentioned Detroit a couple of weeks ago publicly as being one of the primary suitors for Jacob Trouba,” said Dreger. “I can tell you that Kenny Holland has worked incredibly hard over the past couple few years at trying to add a defenseman. I know that he’s had conversations with Cheveldayoff, and I believe that Holland is willing to make a deal for just about anyone outside of Dylan Larkin. But there’s no one really in the Detroit Red Wings organization that seems to be a fit for Cheveldayoff, which tells me that Winnipeg, again, is committed to being patient.”

So one of the defensemen in Detroit in a package doesn’t fit the bill?

“Doesn’t sound like ir,” replied Dreger. “Doesn’t sound like it. Danny DeKeyser is a pretty good hockey player. I would have thought him and geez – if you have to throw someone else in, I guess you try and sweeten it.

“But in fairness to Chevy, he’s got a pretty keen idea of what he needs and he has the rights to Jacob Trouba. It’s not an unrestricted free agent situation here, obviously. He’s going to sit tight and wait for a few things to maybe transpire, including the potential – and I’m not suggesting this is going to happen, but it could – the change of heart of the player.”

Source: TSN 1040/ Transcript: Nichols

Dreger, asked if there's any movement on the Trouba front: "No, not as far as I can tell." #NHLJets 1040 — Chris Nichols (@NicholsOnHockey) October 4, 2016

Dreger elaborates on Red Wings’ interest in Trouba