The Detroit Red Wings’ prospects will attempt to finish the round robin portion of the 2022 Prospect Tournament with a winning record as they face the Toronto Maple Leafs’ prospects today (11 AM EDT on DetroitRedWings.com; link goes to PointStreak’s schedule for today, where you’ll be able to access the box score and statistics).
Monday morning hockey!#DRWPT x #LGRW pic.twitter.com/dm0y0mXjCx— Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) September 19, 2022
This game is going to be a bit of a bugger: the Maple Leafs, who chose to play in 4 prospect tournament games, sit at 1-and-2, and they’ve lost two straight, including a 3-2 overtime loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets yesterday afternoon.
On Sunday, Toronto gave up the game-tying goal with 1:13 remaining in regulation, and Columbus’ Kirill Marchenko scored the game-winner 3:23 into overtime.
The Red Wings have split their first two prospect tournament games, winning 5-2 over Columbus on Friday and losing 5-4 to Dallas on Saturday.
Detroit did choose to practice on Sunday instead of taking the entire day off, so they’ll be about as familiar with each other as players can be over the course of a short tournament, and now they’re being afforded one last chance to impress the Red Wings’ management, as well as scouts from every other NHL team, and many AHL, ECHL, Major Junior and European teams.
I’ll post the rosters when I receive them.
