Winging It In Motown

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Nods and hangs up phone, slides folder across the table to official WIIM Draft Master Kyle as we remain seated in front of a podium at the SB Nation official Mock Draft 2021 room. Our commissioner Steph walks up and says those familiar words: “we have a trade to announce.”] Welcome back to the SBN

Detroit Red Wings once pursued Ryan Suter, Zach Parise In the summer of 2012, the Wings were trying to ameliorate the retirement of Nicklas Lidstrom. Their top target was defenseman Ryan Suter. General manager Ken Holland, owner Mike Ilitch, coach Mike Babcock and executive advisor Chris Chelios met with Suter at his farm in Madison,

For anyone who reads my writing here, you know that I will often use “analytics” or “advanced stats” in my articles. Often, people have questions, many of which take longer to answer than is efficient to do in comments. So I decided to create a series in which I attempt to explain these concepts to

Dear Red Wings: Ken Holland strikes, Kucherov calls Larionov, and a quiz Nikita Kucherov, who missed the entire regular season due to injury, returned in time for the playoffs to score 32 points in 23 games for Tampa. He was Yzerman’s 2nd-round, 58th overall pick in 2011. And get this: He called fellow Russian Igor

We’re on to Part 4 of our analysis of this year’s playoff teams and how they are relevant to the Red Wings. If you’re looking for the past writeups, Part 1 covered the first round East and West division eliminations, Part 2 looked at the first round exits in the West and North Divisions, and

Red Wings Wrap-Up: Robby Fabbri becomes key member of Wings’ core It did not take long for Fabbri, who signed a two-year contract on Aug. 24, 2020, to show his knack for notching game-winning goals for the Red Wings. In the second game of the season on Jan. 16 against the eventual Central Division-champion Carolina

The Red Wings have a list of needs, and one of the biggest, for me, is the lack of talent they have down the middle. That’s why we’re taking center Mason McTavish with the 6th overall pick in SB Nation’s mock NHL Draft. McTavish can be considered a hard-working “swiss army knife” style player —

Chris Watkins joined us to discuss the end of the NHL season, the sexual assault and coverup allegations in Chicago, as well as other hockey topics. We also answered some mailbag questions in a segment that went way over the time we budgeted for it! If you are using a podcast app, you can find

Slim pickings yesterday, but the official site has a prospect profile video on draft eligible wingers. It’s the main story as I type this, but it may not be tomorrow. In addition to some articles coming up, next Monday’s episode of Fer Sure is going to be draft-centric, featuring both Will from the Scouching website

31 Thoughts: Where NHL’s Olympic participation stands as off-season begins 7. Don’t know if it still works, but Toronto liked Tyler Bertuzzi this season — moving elsewhere when it became obvious he wasn’t going to be healthy. Barring a major change, Zach Hyman won’t be back with the Maple Leafs, a big loss for them.

Elliotte Friedman on 630CHED: TOR wanted Bertuzzi at the deadline but he was injured. Doesn’t sound good for Hyman and TOR now. DET and EDM possibilities for Hyman. Hall wants 3-4 years. Thought he was going to stay in BOS, and he still might, but he may test the market. — J (@Account4hockey) July 9,