Of brief Red Wings-related note on a Friday afternoon:
- Daily Faceoff’s Mike Gould posted a list of “under-the-radar” prospects who may play for each of the Atlantic Division teams this upcoming season, and Gould makes a safe bet for the Red Wings in Carter Mazur:
Detroit Red Wings: Carter Mazur, LW
The Red Wings surprised some onlookers by taking overage forward Carter Mazur in the third round of the 2021 NHL Draft, but the Jackson, Michigan-born winger has done nearly everything possible to prove them right in the years since. Mazur enjoyed two highly productive seasons at the University of Denver immediately after being drafted and subsequently finished second on the AHL’s Grand Rapids Griffins in scoring as a first-year pro.
The 22-year-old Mazur is a tenacious forward who relentlessly attacks opponents on the forecheck, wins most of his puck battles, and puts up points at a pretty impressive rate. Although he likely won’t play on the Red Wings’ top two lines once he makes the jump into the NHL, Mazur is a pretty safe bet to become one heck of a bottom-six forward if and when he does make it into Detroit’s lineup. He plays a style that should easily translate to the next level and it’s easy to imagine him popping off for a 20-goal season or two.
2. And while the majority of the Kleine Zeitung’s Martin Quendler’s interview with Marco Kasper is behind a paywall, there’s a full paragraph’s worth of German-language discussion of Kasper’s workouts with KAC Klagenfurt this August:
Marco Kasper gives his all for the NHL
The NHL team Detroit Red Wings is watching its stocks like Marco Kasper, even in the summer. And he’s practicing under difficult conditions. KAC provides the ideal environment for the 20-year-old
A few memories are awakening in Carinthia. In the summers of yesteryear, as they say, when NHL players Michael Grabner and Michael Raffl sped across the ice in Villach, preparing for the upcoming season in the best hockey league in the world with EC VSV.
They never appeared to be “big boys” from North America, but instead, were sly, joking Villach natives among their mates. Approachable, friendly, unpretentious.
Something similar is currently happening in Klagenfurt with marco Kasper, who has the aura of the NHL around him. The first-round draft pick of the Detroit Red Wings has been making the rounds on the ice in Klagenfurt for weeks. Recently, a skills coach from the NHL team even paid him a visit, analyzed him, refined and worked with the 20-year-old. Apparently, Detroit and GM Steve Yzerman were not letting his players out of his sight, even in the summer.
That’s where the paywall hits, but it’s good to hear that the Red Wings are making sure that Kasper improves his skills over the course of his summertime training sessions!
