The Detroit Red Wings have key prospects knocking at the door for roster spots, three goalies competing to be No. 1 and a tough veteran who wants a job. Here’s a projection for how these situations could play out: Marco Kasper and Nate Danielson One of them, probably Kasper, will start the season with the […]

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The Detroit Red Wings, under Steve Yzerman, don’t promise roster spots and are generally guarded about their analysis and projections of their younger players. But GM Yzerman and coach Derek Lalonde have been surprisingly positive about Albert Johansson’s potential as an NHLer. “We feel he’s ready to help us,” Lalonde said on the first day […]

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As the Detroit Red Wings open training camp on Thursday, watching 2024 first-round draft pick Michael Brandsegg-Nygard in action will be a delightful treat. Originally, the plan for the big Norwegian winger was that he’d be sequestered in Sweden with Skelleftea of the SHL for the 2024-25 season. Instead, the Detroit brass was making the […]

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The Detroit Red Wings thought so highly of Ondrej Becher that they were using the 80th pick of the 2024 NHL entry draft to claim him. Obviously, they believe he has to potential to be a player. There’s just one catch. They’d like to get to see him play. Then they might have a better […]

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The NHL days of former Detroit Red Wings forward Filip Zadina are done, at least temporarily, if not for good. The player chosen sixth overall by Detroit in the 2018 NHL entry draft will be plying his trade in Switzerland this season. That certainly classifies Zadina as a draft bust. However, when it comes to […]

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The complication of NHL scouting is to understand that what you see is not what you get. When a Red Wings scout watches a teenager perform, he must project what the player will be like at age 22 or 23. See the sapling, but envision the oak tree. If an NHL scout is watching a […]

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Detroit Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman will likely spend every last nickel of this season’s salary cap space to get Moritz Seider and Lucas Raymond signed to long-term deals. But Yzerman’s cap outlook shows more flexibility for next summer. Patrick Kane, Christian Fischer, Tyler Motte, Jeff Petry, Olli Maatta, William Lagesson, Ville Husso and […]

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Former Detroit Red Wings player Filip Zadina, who hasn’t lived up to expectations in the NHL, will now test his ability in the Swiss League with Hockey Club Davos. Zadina, 24, signed a two-year deal with Davos. No financial details were released, but the average salary in the Swiss League is in the range of […]

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When GM Steve Yzerman took over the Detroit Red Wings, he inherited a team that had drafted 19 goalies over the previous 25 years and only managed to find two who played a meaningful number of game for the team. That’s a 10.5% success rate. Only Jimmy Howard (64th overall, 2003) and Petr Mrazek (141st, […]

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The hockey community tends to view the late Doug Harvey as a Montreal Canadien like Mickey Mantle is forever a New York Yankee and Earvin “Magic” Johnson belongs to the Los Angeles Lakers. But the truth is Harvey played for three other NHL teams, and one of them was the Detroit Red Wings. In the […]

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