Detroit Hockey Now’s Tim Robinson posted a profile of Red Wings prospect Marco Kasper, who is tri-lingual, graduated from high school in Sweden this past spring, and has already played professional hockey with Rogle BK of the SHL, all at the age of 19:
Grand Rapids coach Dan Watson, who is coaching the Red Wings team in the NHL. Prospects tournament this weekend, is impressed with Kasper’s compete level and more.
“He’s got good stick detail,” Watson said. “He’s gonna find that offensive touch this year, for sure. But again just another smart player, moves his feet well and makes the players around him better. I liked his game (Thursday).”
It was Kasper’s first game since suffering a broken kneecap against Toronto in his NHL debut last season.
“It was a good game,” Kasper said of Thursday’s game. “A couple of turnovers cost us at the end of the game. We played hard. It was a gold first game.”
Kasper worked diligently in rehabbing the knee during offseason workouts in Detroit. So much so that Director of Player Development Dan Cleary fretted at one point that Kasper was working too hard.
