Month: September 2025

Eddie Genborg earns praise after scoring his first goal for Timra IK

As noted on Tuesday, Red Wings prospect Eddie Genborg scored a goal in Timra IK’s 5-2 win over Genborg’s previous team, Linkopings HC (via Red Wings Prospects on Twitter).

Playing on Timra’s first line, Genborg, a 2025 2nd round pick, chipped home a bouncing puck in front of the opposition net:

Detroit Hockey Now’s Bob Duff took note of some Swedish praise for Genborg from both his teammate Jonathan Dahlen (who scored a hat trick on Tuesday; Dahlen is an SHL star player), as well as an SHL analyst…

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Tweet of note via Red Wings Prospects: Max Plante named alternate captain at University of Minnesota-Duluth

Via Red Wings Prospects on Twitter: University of Minnesota-Duluth forward Max Plante was named an assistant captain at UMD:

Does Dylan Larkin face pressure? Yes. Blame for the playoff-less streak? No.

Yardbarker’s Chris Morgan offers a list of 20 NHL players who he believes will be under the most pressure to perform this upcoming season, and Morgan lists Detroit Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin on his list:

Dylan Larkin

The Red Wings made the playoffs for 25 straight seasons between 1990-91 and 2015-16. Steve Yzerman, Nicklas Lidstrom, and Henrik Zetterberg all captained the Red Wings to playoff appearances, the first two hoisting Cups. Detroit has now missed the playoffs nine seasons in a row, including every season Larkin has been captain. This kind of drought doesn’t fly in Hockeytown. It pretty much needs to end now. If it doesn’t, Yzerman, now the general manager, will take some blame, but Larkin will also receive a lot of it.

Continued; Larkin is always under significant pressure as the Red Wings’ captain…

But he’s not going to be at fault if the Red Wings miss the playoffs. Larkin brings his best effort every night, and while he’s still looking for the most consistency he can muster, the Wings’ much-beleaguered captain does a damn good job.

Discussing AHL preseason games (or the lack thereof)

Via the Hockeytown West Podcast, Inside AHL Hockey’s Tony Androckitis reports that the Grand Rapids Griffins won’t play a preseason game this upcoming season:

The Hockey News’s Jake Tye wondered aloud whether the Red Wings and Griffins might want Grand Rapids to play in some stand-alone exhibition games in order to further evaluate the Wings’ prospects when the NHL drops down from 8 exhibition games to 4 exhibition games…

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Prospect round-up: Buchelnikov 1A, Genborg 1G, Anton Johansson 23:13 played on a busy day in Europe

Of Red Wings prospect-related note:

In the KHL, Dmitri Buchelnikov registered an assist, finishing with a penalty, a won faceoff and a hit in 16:18 played as CSKA Moscow lost 6-5 in a shootout to Spartak:

In the SHL, Michal Svrcek dressed but didn’t play a shift as Brynas IF lost 7-5 to Lulea Hockey;

Anton Johansson took 2 shots, finishing even in 23:13 as Leksands IF won 4-2 over Orebro Hockey;

And Eddie Genborg scored a power play goal, finishing at -1 with 2 shots and a minor penalty taken in 15:20 played as Timra IK won 5-2 over Linkopings HC:

Promotional Tweet: Grand Rapids Griffins advertise a ‘Pick ‘Em Plan’

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Kulfan asks 10 training camp questions

The Detroit News’s Ted Kulfan asks 10 pertinent questions of the Red Wings ahead of the start of training camp on Thursday:

▶ 5. Can Kasper, Simon Edvinsson, Albert Johansson, Elmer Soderblom and Jonatan Berggren take further steps in their careers? It seems vital, since the Wings are banking on internal improvement. All these young players earned NHL opportunities last season and showed promise. If the Wings are going to move up the standings, all these players will need to continue to improve and flourish. Most of them will get key roles, play key minutes, and as their progress goes, so go the Wings in a big way.

▶ 6. Who will play with Larkin and Raymond? As noted above, Kasper thrived playing with these two last season. Copp, returning from injury, would make an interesting fit. Newly acquired James van Riemsdyk, with his style of play and effectiveness around the net, seems well suited. Soderblom and Berggren had chances last season and had some success playing on Larkin’s line. There are a lot of possibilities.

▶ 7. Is there a spot in the lineup for Nate Danielson, Michael Brandsegg-Nygard, Axel Sandin-Pellikka, Carter Mazur, or any prospect? The defensive unit appears set, so for Sandin-Pellikka to make the roster, it would seem an injury (or trade) would have to occur. But as good a prospect as Sandin-Pellikka is, some seasoning in Grand Rapids might be best for him adapting to North American pro hockey. There is an extra forward spot available, but the Wings don’t ever want a youngster like Danielson, Mazur or Brandsegg-Nygard to be healthy scratches in the NHL if there’s ample playing time available to them in the AHL. Any of these young forwards would basically have to play well enough to take over someone’s job. It is possible.

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Can Michael Brandsegg-Nygard ‘crack the roster?’

MLive’s Ansar Khan discusses Michael Brandsegg-Nygard’s attempt to make the Red Wings’ roster as a “regular” in the team’s forward corps this month:

Griffins coach Dan Watson liked what he saw from Brandsegg-Nygard in two regular season and three AHL playoffs games and in a pair of prospects games against the Dallas Stars over the weekend.

“We can see he’s a competitor,” Watson said. “He’s winning a lot of 50-50 battles with a stick, with his body. He’s got that quick release shot. So, anything in tight, you know he’s going to get that off. He’s a physical player. He gets right in there. I saw it at the end of the year, just the way that he plays, I don’t think there’s going to be a long transition period for him to get used to how to play here in North America.”

Brandsegg-Nygard focused this summer on his speed, particularly his first three steps, and knows his game is tailor made for the NHL.

“I feel like it’s more physical, and I like to be the physical player of the game,” Brandsegg-Nygard said. “I like that it’s always going north. So, we get skating toward the O-zone. And I do not like to play in the D-zone.”

Brandsegg-Nygard was the first of only two Norwegians to ever be selected in the first round of the draft. In the past year, he has played in the SHL and the AHL and in several international competitions for Norway, including the World Junior Championship and the World Championship.

“It helped me a lot that I’ve been playing a lot of different type of hockey,” Brandsegg-Nygard said. “I know what to expect and feel comfortable with everything.”

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Gibson and Talbot provide an ‘interesting goaltending battle’

Daily Faceoff’s Steven Ellis offers a list of his “most interesting goaltending battles” of the 2025-2026 season:

Detroit Red Wings

John Gibson and Cam Talbot

The Red Wings traded for Gibson at the 2025 NHL Draft, giving them what should be an upgrade over Lyon. And the timing is good, too. Despite missing the start of the season – and thus losing the starter’s gig to Lukas Dostal – Gibson battled back to post some of the best numbers of his 12-year NHL career. At his best, Gibson is fully capable of stealing games.

But was his 29-game clip last year legit? Can the Red Wings be fully confident in him? Or will 38-year-old Cam Talbot have something to say about that? Talbot was great in stretches last year, with his numbers in December suggesting he’d be a good fit for Canada at the 4 Nations Face-Off. He can be a bit hot-and-cold, but when he’s hot, Talbot can be lights out. He’ll want to secure as many starts as possible and prove he can still be Detroit’s No. 1 – but Gibson will be a tough nemesis. Either way, it’s a solid duo.

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Ranking the Wings

Shap Shots’ Sean Shapiro compiled a panel which ranked the Detroit Red Wings’ roster from 23 to 1 today, and here are a few of his rankings:

  1. Moritz Seider, RHD

Average Rank: 2.42

Highest Rank: 1

Lowest Rank: 3

My Rank: 3

It’s hard to believe Seider is only 24, because between his body of work and the discourse surrounding his usage, you’d think he was already a 10-year NHL veteran. Seider is one of the rocks on the Red Wings defense, and his game has been forced to mature in the most difficult situations — how many times have the Red Wings now signed a veteran that’s failed to make his life easier? If he can add a bit of offensive pop, like he had in the final five games of the regular season, his name will come up more when people start discussing the NHL’s top-20 defenders.

  1. Lucas Raymond, RW

Average Rank: 2.28

Highest Rank: 2

Lowest Rank: 3

My Rank: 2

Raymond isn’t just an elite young player, he’s a superstar in waiting. Give him a better supporting cast, and I believe he could be a 100-point player this season. Watching Raymond thrive at the international level only makes me more bullish on that, when he plays with elite players, he becomes a driver that pushes others along the wing.

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