The Grand Rapids Griffins are holding their “Jake Engel Memorial Dog Game” this Sunday vs. the Chicago Wolves:
Join us this Sunday for our Jake Engel Memorial Dog Game! Dress you and your furry friend in your Halloween costumes and enter in our costume contest! #GoGRG
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The Hockey News’s Avry Lewis-McDougall posted “Three Things We Learned” from the past week in the NHL, and item #3 earns a, “Welcome to the party, bud” from Red Wings fans:
The Red Wings rookies came to play
In Detroit, a pair of rookies have been making headlines in Red Wings colours in the form of Lucas Raymond and Moritz Seider. In Detroit’s 6-3 win over Chicago on Sunday, Raymond would become the first teenager to record a hat trick since his GM Steve Yzerman did it twice to kick off his playing career.
Defenseman Moritz Seider is turning heads with five points in five games with the Red Wings and sitting third on team scoring. Seider is also getting attention for the reason why he picked No.53 for his jersey number.
Red Wings D Moritz Seider said he chose 53 because he had watched Herbie the Lovebug movie the day before he was asked what number he wanted to wear.
— Helene St. James (@HeleneStJames) October 23, 2021
Seider going with Herbie’s number may be one of the most unique stories of a rookie deciding what to wear in the NHL. There is no word yet on if any other players around the league have used a Disney movie to decide what number they should go with.
I’d rather not milk Lucas Raymond’s hat trick against the Blackhawks last night, but we’ll “go there” one more time, for good reason:
97.1 the Ticket’s Will Burchfield notes that Raymond earned the most credit from coach Jeff Blashill not for scoring three goals in total, but instead, going to the front of the net and ending up face-first on the ice:
Raymond had it all working against Chicago. He scored early in the first when Bertuzzi forced a turnover in the Blackhawks’ zone and found him streaking toward the net; Raymond faked a shot and then slid the puck through the legs of Marc-Andre Fleury. He scored late in the second when he drove the net and knocked home a Larkin rebound — and paid the price by winding up on his stomach. And he scored midway through the third on a power-play one-timer.
It was the second goal, the ugly one, that Blashill may have liked the most.
“Lucas doesn’t shy away from really anything,” Blashill said. “He’s taken some hard hits and things like that and he’s not shy at all. He’s got an edge to him, for sure. And he’s certainly not shy about going to the net. But I also think there’s a habitual art that not only do you go to the net, but you gotta stop at the net. And that’s ultimately what he did.”
As Burchfield notes, Raymond–like Moritz Seider–is a fearless player, and his willingness to take no shit and give no f-you-know-what’s when people try to intimidate him physically may be his best quality:
Raymond’s on the smaller end of the NHL spectrum at 5’10, but he plays much bigger. He doesn’t let his size deter him from getting to the danger areas of the ice. He nearly took a face full of iron when he got knocked down from behind on his second goal and ate a whole bunch of twine instead — a trade he’ll make every time to put the puck in the net.
“If you want to score goals, you have to get into those areas,” he said. “You can’t just shoot and score fancy goals. You have to really get in there. That’s usually where most of the goals are scored, so trying to get in there more and more.
Aftonbladet’s Mattias Karlsson spoke with Red Wings legend Nicklas Lidstrom regarding the progress made by Lucas Raymond and Moritz Seider over the course of the Red Wings’ first six games. What follows is roughly translated from Swedish:
Continue reading Roughly Translated: Nicklas Lidstrom speaks with Aftonbladet regarding Raymond (and Seider and Edvinsson)On Lucas Raymond: “Steve Yzerman is happy”
Lucas Raymond got a lot of attention after his hat trick for the Red Wings.
Team legend Nicklas Lidstrom has been over in Michigan and followed the 19-year-old closely.
“Steve Yzerman thinks that Lucas Raymond shows the qualities that they drafted him for, and is very satisfied,” says “Lidas.”
Lucas Raymond scored a hat trick in the 6-3 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks in Illinois.
The right-handed forward from Gothenburg has registered a total of seven points in six games in the NHL, which leads the rookie points totals.
Now 51-year-old Nicklas Lidstrom was together with, among others, Henrik Zetterberg on site during the first three home games of the season.
The Swedes were out on the ice when Dylan Larkin was officially hailed as the new captain in front of the crowd.
“That hat trick was unbelievable, Lucas Raymond has showed his qualities by being able to both hit hard on the goal and to have a strong, direct shot. He has done incredibly well, and had played on the first line with Dylan Larkin and Tyler Bertuzzi and gained confidence on the power play both 5 on 4 and in 5 on 3 play. He’s getting a lot of playing time and earning important minutes, 16-18 minutes per game, which is a lot for a 19-year-old. He’s really getting chances in the offensive zone, and he’s impressed me,” says “Lidas.”
“Very smart player”
Red Wings forward Lucas Raymond “had a night” vs. the Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday, scoring a hat trick and registering 4 points over the course of a 6-3 Red Wings victory…
And all of MLive’s Ansar Khan, the Free Press’s Helene St. James and The Athletic’s Max Bultman wrote columns about Raymond this morning.
Khan focuses on Raymond’s place in Red Wings history…
Gordie Howe, Steve Yzerman … Lucas Raymond? OK, nobody is comparing the Detroit Red Wings prized rookie to franchise legends, but for one memorable night, Raymond earned a place next to those names.
Raymond, in just his sixth NHL game, recorded his first career hat trick and added an assist for a four-point night Sunday in a 6-3 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks at the United Center.
The 19-year-old is the first teenager to notch a hat trick for Detroit since Yzerman in 1985 and joined his current general manager (Dec. 23, 1983) and Howe (Dec. 17, 1947) as the only players in club history with four-point games before age 20.
“It’s tough to take in,” Raymond said. “Those are two of the greatest players who ever played in franchise history. I’m trying not to think about it that much. Just keep playing, keep working and try and develop. Actually, that’s a team and personal goal every day.”
The Free Press’s Helene St. James posted a subscriber-only article which focuses on Raymond’s fearlessness…
Continue reading Khan, HSJ, Bultman in the morning: All about Lucas RaymondThe Swedish Ice Hockey Association named its team for the Four Nations Cup in November, which is the final warmup prior to the World Junior Championship, and:
Simon Edvinsson, William Wallinder (both defenders) and Theodor Niederbach were named to the team.
Alex Wood, a.k.a. AWood40 on YouTube, posted an 18-minute highlight clip of Ken Daniels and Mickey Redmond’s call of the Red Wings’ 6-3 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday:
Red Wings forward Robby Fabbri speaks with Bally Sports Detroit’s Brooke Fletcher via Zoom on this week’s episode of “The Third Half”:
The Detroit Red Wings defeated the Chicago Blackhawks 6-3 on Sunday night, with Lucas Raymond scoring a hat trick on a 4-point night:
The Red Wings’ victory was a wild, up-and-down emotional affair, one in which Raymond wasn’t the only Red Wings player who displayed jaw-dropping athletic abilities…
And on a night that Nedeljkovic had 32 saves, Dylan Larkin had 3 assists, Tyler Bertuzzi had a goal and 2 assists, Mitchell Stephens of all people had 2 assists, Vladislav Namestnikov and Carter Rowney scored and Filip Zadina, Michael Rasmussen and Moritz Seider all had assists, well…
*takes deep breath*
There weren’t many passengers in the Red Wings’ lineup as the now 3-2-and-1 team both attacked the hapless Hawks and stood tough as the still-dangerous denizens of Chicago made the game a little too close for comfort on several occasions.
The result was simple: Detroit snapped a 2-game losing streak, and salvaged a weekend of back-to-back games; for the Blackhawks, who are now 0-5-and-1, things got worse, and the team’s sellout streak ended on a night where the, “Let’s go Red Wings!” chants out-fought the derisive, “Detroit sucks!” chant.
The Hawks were clearly less than 100% without Patrick Kane, Jujhar Khaira and Riley Stillman, who were all in COVID protocols, but the Hawks weren’t about to use their absences as an excuse, as they told NBC Sports Chicago’s Charlie Roumeliotis:
Continue reading Red Wings-Blackhawks wrap-up: From Raymond to Nedeljkovic, the Red Wings were solid all over the ice vs. the hapless HawksWhat a save by Alex Nedeljkovic in the Red Wings’ 6-3 win over Chicago, via Sportsnet:
