Last week, the Detroit Red Wings made their first major move of the offseason, acquiring defenseman Nick Leddy in a trade with the New York Islanders. To understand the transaction, one has to understand the player – so let’s dig into his recent play with the Islanders. 2020-21 Stats: Goals: 2 Assists: 29 Relative Corsi For
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The Detroit Red Wings protection list for the 2021 NHL Expansion Draft has finally been revealed, which means the Seattle Kraken can finally begin to formulate their plan of attack. Looking at those left unprotected, there are four obvious candidates for Seattle to take: two risky selections and two safe ones. The Risks Evgeny Svechnikov
The Detroit Red Wings announced their 2021 preseason exhibition schedule on Monday. The eight-game slate includes home and away games against the Buffalo Sabres, Chicago Blackhawks, Columbus Blue Jackets, and Pittsburgh Penguins. Detroit’s slate of opponents had remained relatively stable throughout the 2010s after the Boston Bruins replaced the Philadelphia Flyers in 2011. This marks
Back for another season are Dylan Galloway, the head scout for Eastern Canada for Future Considerations and Will, who runs the highly acclaimed draft site Scouching. We talked about a wide range of draft related topics, both related to Detroit and the rest of the league. If you are using a podcast app, you can
Detroit Red Wings expose Dennis Cholowski to expansion draft The NHL on Sunday released the lists of which players teams protected ahead of Wednesday’s expansion draft, and Wings general manager Steve Yzerman left 2016 first-round pick Dennis Cholowski exposed. The headline is definitely hyperbolic, and I don’t think that it’s really a good argument, but
The Detroit Red Wings’ expansion protection list wasn’t as surprising once the Nick Leddy trade was announced. One of the three remaining defenseman–Troy Stecher, Dennis Cholowski, or Gustav Lindstrom was going to be penciled in while the others were exposed. Stecher being out there is a tough blow for the fans who embraced him this
The Detroit Red Wings have finalized their protection list for the upcoming Seattle Kraken Expansion Draft. Teams had until Saturday at 5 p.m. ET to submit their lists to the league. The lists were revealed Sunday morning. The Expansion Draft will stock Seattle with 30 players. The draft will be broadcast at 8 p.m. ET
Welcome back to our Seattle Expansion Draft Series. If you haven’t read the first article that lays out the rules of the expansion draft, that would be a good starting point, as I’ll only give the very basic rules in each of these follow up articles. Previous articles focusing on Detroit in this series were
Protection lists for each of the National Hockey League’s teams in the upcoming Seattle Kraken expansion draft were distributed at 10 AM on Sunday and, unsurprisingly, began to leak out almost immediately. #RedWings protection list: Bertuzzi, Erne, Fabbri, Larkin, Rasmussen, Smith, Vrana, Hronek, Leddy, Lindstrom, Greiss. Exposed: Namestnikov, Nielsen, DeKeyser, Stecher. — Frank Seravalli (@frank_seravalli)
There is a rookie tournament in works for this fall in Traverse City but it will be a smaller gathering than usual. Detroit obviously, with Columbus, Dallas, St. Louis and Toronto are expected clubs to participate. — Corey Pronman (@coreypronman) July 17, 2021 Good news. This is always a good time. Flyers acquire Ellis, Golden
The Detroit Red Wings made their move for defenseman Nick Leddy, acquiring him from the New York Islanders for Richard Panik and a second round pick. The Wings also retained half of Panik’s remaining contract, befuddling many in the fanbase as to what the heck Steve Yzerman is doing in the trade. As goes the
With the acquisition of Islander’s defenseman Nick Leddy, the upcoming expansion draft just became a little more complicated for the Red Wings. How much does Leddy change Detroit’s protection list? Hronek and Leddy are Locks Heading into the offseason, Filip Hronek was the only real lock for one of the three defensive protection slots. Hronek
Who Red Wings will protect in expansion draft; who they might lose – mlive.com Analysis: Hronek is an easy call. The Red Wings surely will protect younger players Cholowski and Lindstrom over veterans DeKeyser and Stecher. (Khan’s article and my analysis here were written before the Red Wings acquired Nick Leddy. I’ve added an update
Detroit Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman made his first move this offseason less than 24 hours before a roster freeze occurs: UPDATE: The Detroit #RedWings acquired D Nick Leddy from the New York Islanders in exchange for F Richard Panik and the 52nd selection (originally EDM) in the 2021 NHL Entry Draft. pic.twitter.com/SNWmaoV14q — Detroit
The Detroit Red Wings acquired defenseman Nick Leddy from the New York Islanders on Friday, in exchange for forward Richard Panik and a second-round pick in the 2021 NHL Entry Draft. UPDATE: The Detroit #RedWings acquired D Nick Leddy from the New York Islanders in exchange for F Richard Panik and the 52nd selection (originally
With the expansion draft looming, Steve Yzerman attempted to take advantage of the Islanders, who were not going to protect defenseman Nick Leddy. In exchange for Leddy, Detroit sends New York the 52nd overall pick in the 2021 draft, as well as Richard Panik. Detroit retains 50% salary on Panik for the remainder of his
While the “Russian Factor” might be a problem for other general managers, Steve Yzerman has a history of ignoring said “issue” in the draft. With that in mind, let’s take a look at the top three Russians in this year’s draft. Daniil Chayka – LD Chayka’s stock has fallen a bit since the beginning of
We’ve been busy bees in this years mock draft — we kept the 6th overall pick and selected center Mason McTavish, we then decided to get a little fancy and pull off a “mockbuster” trade with our friends at Pensburgh and Knights on Ice. Now we’re picking at 30 (technically 29), and we’re taking center
We are getting ready to record Episode 75 of our NHL podcast “Fer Sure: A 200 Foot Podcast.” If you missed the last episode, you can catch up here. For this special NHL Entry Draft preview episode, we will again be featuring Will from the website Scouching and Dylan Galloway, the head scout for Eastern
Kivlenieks ‘died a hero,’ Blue Jackets teammate says at memorial “He saved my (unborn) son. He saved my wife and he saved me,” Merzlikins said. “He saved many lives. … If that wouldn’t have been me, my wife or son, it would’ve been 50 other people. He died a hero. And that’s not me saying