Month: September 2025

Press release: Red Wings reduce training camp roster by 11

Per the Detroit Red Wings:

RED WINGS REDUCE TRAINING CAMP ROSTER BY 11

  … Fifty-one Players Remain with Detroit Ahead of 2025 Red & White Game …

DETROIT – The Detroit Red Wings today returned forward Kevin Bicker to Löwen Frankfurt of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. Additionally, the Red Wings have returned forward Grayden Robertson-Palmer, defenseman Will Murphy, and goaltenders Landon Miller and Michal Pradel to their respective junior clubs.

The Red Wings have released defenseman Nicklas Andrews from his professional tryout. He will report to the ECHL’s Toledo Walleye. Detroit has also released forwards Vincent Collard and Liam Kilfoil, and defensemen Maxim Dirracolo, Wyatt Kennedy and Carl-Otto Magnusson from their amateur tryouts.

Detroit currently has 51 players on its training camp roster: 28 forwards, 17 defensemen and six goaltenders. The Red Wings will continue their training camp with the 2025 Red & White Game on Sunday, Sept. 21 at 3:00 p.m. at Van Andel Arena, home of the American Hockey League’s Grand Rapids Griffins. Fans can watch the sold-out game on WXSP-TV across West Michigan or watch the live stream on DetroitRedWings.com and the Red Wings Mobile App. Please note that the live stream will only be available to fans in Michigan and Northwest Ohio.

Thread post: Tweets from the 3rd day of Red Wings training camp

Updated most recently at 2:10 PM: The Detroit Red Wings will hit the ice at Centre ICE Arena in Traverse City for their final day of training camp activities this Saturday morning, and the team will then head to Grand Rapids for the Red vs. White Game (3 PM EDT start on DetroitRedWings.com/WXSP). Here are various Tweets from today’s practices and scrimmages, as well as the usual social media “stuff.”

This post will be updated throughout the day.

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It’s a little early to abandon all hope

Sportsnet’s Rory Boylen offers suggestions as to what fans should remember about their respective NHL teams as the NHL preseason begins tonight, and he offers a couple of tired old tropes about the Red Wings:

Detroit Red Wings: The ‘Yzerplan’ is entering its seventh season

Patience is the key to a successful rebuild and the Detroit market has certainly been that as the Red Wings have worked through some pretty low lows that will hopefully one day pay off. Two years ago, they were within a whisker of a tie-breaker of making the playoffs, but were passed by division rivals Montreal and Ottawa, who qualified in 2025, while Detroit fell short by five points. They’re not far off, but that patience is starting to wear thin in the market; even captain Dylan Larkin expressed some frustration that the front office didn’t add more to help the team at last year’s trade deadline. Marco Kasper finished strong last season, giving hope that he can have a breakout season. Simon Edvinsson will be looked at to take on a greater role in his second full season from the back end, but he’ll miss training camp with an injury. Detroit has missed the playoffs for nine consecutive years, and we have to wonder what the reaction would be if that’s extended to 10.

Continued; I think that these hockey experts need to talk to actual Red Wings fans in Michigan regarding the team’s rebuild.

Yes, fans are impatient; yes, the team raised ticket prices; yes, it’s been a long summer of not many moves due to a thin free agent marketplace and a ridiculously high set of trade prices…

But Larkin is not in revolt, Yzerman is not going to be fired any time soon, and the team is going to do it’s damn best to make prove people wrong and make the playoffs this season.

It’s the beginning of the 2025-2026 season, and everybody has a chance to get the job done, even if their chances are not exactly “slam dunks.”

I’m not dropping my optimism about this year’s Red Wings team just because the “experts” say that I should be in panic in Hockeytown.

It’s just an experimental line, but MBN-Compher-Berggren is an interesting combination

Coach Todd McLellan told the Red Wings’ press corps that the team’s lines are far from set in stone, but Detroit Hockey Now’s Kevin Allen took note of an intriguing line combo at Red Wings training camp, even if it is only an experiment:

McLellan did answer the question of MBN playing with Compher and Berggren.

“We wanted to see how (Brandsegg-Nygard) would perform in that situation,” McLellan said. “I think we have to give the younger players every opportunity to experience being on a line with some veterans and see how that goes. We saw what it did for Marco (Kasper), last year, Albert (Johansson) coming into the lineup, playing with a veteran, you know, so hopefully those things take care of themselves. But please don’t read into the lines.”

Continued; I believe that MBN is going to need some time in Grand Rapids to fully adapt to the North American game, but at some point in the near future, he’s going to get a “cup of coffee call-up” at the very least.

Sid the Wing? Don’t bet on it.

Last night, Detroit Hockey Now’s Bob Duff speculated as to whether the Red Wings might be able to make a bid for Vancouver Canucks captain Quinn Hughes.

This morning, The Athletic asked 31 teams’ correspondents whether it could be possible for their respective teams to trade for one Sidney Crosby:

Detroit Red Wings

There’s a slight chance

I’m sure the Red Wings would love to trade for Crosby. He’s certainly getting up there in age, but he’s still an elite offensive player and brings the kind of winning ingredients they need to get over the hump. Detroit also has the prospect capital to make an intriguing offer. But while the Red Wings are closer to competing than Pittsburgh, they still haven’t broken through. Is that a compelling enough situation for Crosby in his final playing years? — Max Bultman

Continued (paywall); I don’t see it happening, plain and simple.

The Red Wings’ goaltending carousel stops on John Gibson and Cam Talbot…for now…

The Free Press’s Helene St. James has posted her morning column today, and she discusses the concept that goaltender John Gibson might stop the Red Wings’ rotating goalie carousel on a pair of netminders in Gibson and Cam Talbot, at least for the upcoming season.

St. James notes that Red Wings coach Todd McLellan is quite familiar with Gibson from his days in San Jose, Edmonton and Los Angeles, battling Gibson’s Anaheim Ducks…

“I’ve been lucky enough, or unfortunate enough – I don’t know which side of the coin that I stand on – because he’s played really well against our teams in the past,” McLellan said after day two of training camp at Centre Ice Arena. “We’re counting on him getting back to that. I think Gibby can give us a sense of confidence and a feeling that if we make a mistake, he will be there for us.”

The Wings acquired Gibson in late June from the Anaheim Ducks for Petr Mrázek, a 2026 fourth-round pick and a 2027 second-round pick. Gibson, 32, has two years left on a deal carrying a $6.4 million cap hit. He has spent his entire career in Anaheim, where McLellan coached against him while with the San Jose Sharks, Edmonton Oilers and Los Angeles Kings.

“He seems to be rejuvenated and excited, which is real positive for him and for us,” McLellan said. “But we need all of our goaltending in the organization to step up and give us a little more, and we have to work better around them.”

Gibson apparently drove all the way from Pittsburgh to Detroit to take part in “Captain’s skates” over the past month, affording his family the opportunity to settle in Detroit at their leisure…

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