Ahead of the Jamie Daniels Foundation’s Celebrity Roast of Scotty Bowman (8 PM EDT on Wednesday, October 14th on Fox Sports Detroit), The Athletic’s Max Bultman sat down for a Q and A with Red Wings play-by-play announcer Ken Daniels:
While we’re talking, I should probably ask you what you made of the RedWings’ pickups in free agency last weekend.
They’re more skilled, for sure, with some veterans up front who can still skate. I think Namestnikov … (Yzerman) certainly knows what he brings. And I think that will help with some speed up front. Bobby Ryan will help on the power play.
Defensively, they’re so much better. Right side with Hronek, Stecher and then Lindstrom and then you’ve got Biega. And then you don’t have to worry about Seider and those guys. And then on the left side you get DeKeyser back … You’ve got Merrill, you’ve got Staal and Nemeth; that’s pretty good. … Greiss isn’t flopping (around), he’s positionally sound. And yeah, he played behind a good Islander team, that’s one thing. But then you look at the save percentage.
… So I think even with the guys they brought in, especially on defense, they’re better, they’re going to be more composed. … They’re going to be able to stop the bleeding more often.
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