Okay, here’s the scoop on the Red Wings’ injuries, per coach Derek Lalonde:
- Andrew Copp is still about 4 weeks into a 6-to-8-week recovery period from abdominal surgery, so while he and Jake Walman (shoulder, out till November) have been skating, Copp has to ride out the recovery process;
- Today, coach Lalonde told us that Tyler Bertuzzi (???) and Oskar Sundqvist (???) remain day-to-day with their issues, and that we should see them “at some point” in the exhibition season;
- Joe Veleno missed the Red vs. White Game with a “maintenance day” lower-body issue;
- And Robert Hagg, who took a puck to the head/ear off a shot from Simon Edvinsson and left Sunday’s game, had yet to be evaluated when the coach spoke with us.
That’s one way to win a job… 😂