Daily Faceoff’s Matt Larkin ranked his Top 300 fantasy hockey players this morning, and here are the Red Wings players on his list:
63. Dylan Larkin, C, Red Wings: He’s tasked with doing more than just score, so that caps his upside in the 30-goal, 70-point range, but that’s nothing to sneeze at. With his supporting cast vastly improved this offseason, too, 2022-23 looks like his best chance at a career year.
65. Moritz Seider, D, Red Wings: Any defenseman who gives you 50 points, 187 shots, 151 hits and 161 blocks in a season is worth getting excited about. But Seider did it as a rookie! If that’s the floor, I can’t wait to see how much better he gets in the coming seasons. Even his Year-1 fantasy stat line looked like something we’d get from Zdeno Chara in his prime.
94. Lucas Raymond, LW, Red Wings: Confident, intelligent and mature beyond his years, Raymond had the coaching staff’s trust from the pre-season and flourished as a rookie in a top-line winger role, putting up 23-34-57 in 82 games. He should only get better.
119. Jakub Vrana, LW, Red Wings: Unbelievably efficient. Vrana scores 25 goals per 82 games in his career despite averaging 13:54 of ice time. Even when Detroit eased him back from shoulder surgery last year, he managed 13 goals in 26 games. If new Wings coach Derek Lalonde is willing to let Vrana cook, he’s capable of burying 40 goals. He has 21 in just 37 games across two seasons with Detroit.
125. David Perron, RW Red Wings: Here’s a classic case of “new signing helps his team a lot but hurts his own value.” Perron should inject the Red Wings with offense but joins a weaker team. The good news: because he does so much of his damage on the power play, he should get time with Detroit’s best offensive players no matter what. Maybe he ends up being a value pick.
155. Ville Husso, G, Red Wings: I wouldn’t worry too much about a perceived team downgrade for Husso. The Blues were a nightmare defensively last year, allowing Husso to be peppered. The biggest question for me is how big Husso’s workload will be. I assume bigger than Alex Nedeljkovic’s, but what does that mean? Between 45 and 50 starts?
161. Tyler Bertuzzi, LW, Red Wings: I actually think he has a shot to be as good as last season. He’s very efficient, converting more than 15 percent of his shots in his career, and he upped his shot output significantly in 2021-22.
209. Andrew Copp, C, Red Wings: I fear a bust here, poolies. No matter who his Detroit linemates are, they won’t equate with the likes of Ehlers and Scheifele in Winnipeg or Panarin and Strome in New York. And Copp was never a scorer – at any level, dating back to the USHL and college – before last season’s age-27 breakout.
282. Simon Edvinsson, D, Red Wings: If he makes the team, keep him on your radar. Some consider him the best blueline prospect in years, and his physicality could make him a versatile contributor in fantasy.
286. Dominik Kubalik, LW, Red Wings: Maybe the 30-goal debut wasn’t the real Kubalik. But he can at least carry on as a 15-to-20-goal threat, though he’s likely a third-liner to start 2022-23.
Continued; who missed the cut, but should have been included?
