I’m not certain why this is/was the case, but the coverage of the Red Wings’ annual Summer Development Camp was hit-and-miss this past week.
The Wings themselves at least posted daily press conference videos and some cute/insightful behind-the-scenes stuff, but the scrimmage-less camp didn’t include the usual broadcast from the rink or commentary from Kris Draper regarding the Wings’ newest prospects.
The beat writers seemed preoccupied with Dylan Larkin’s situation, Patrick Kane’s situation, and Detroit’s free agency performance (or the lack thereof), too–understandably so–but they’ve already moved on to post-free agency and offseason coverage for the most part.
As such, the local news media didn’t really head down to LCA for video hits, and while the Detroit News’s David Guralnick posted his annual 65 image photo gallery from the BELFOR Training Center on Monday, and I’m sure that Max (Bultman) will offer some observations from the SDC at some point soon…
I was surprised when I spotted a 1:50 video from WNEM 5’s Cole Martens, who gave us a full-fledged sports report, comments from Red Wings director of player development Dan Cleary and prospect forward JP Hurlbert included:
I hope that we see and read more Summer Development Camp coverage before all is said and done, but with the Red Wings’ imminent future wrapped up in the rectification of Dylan Larkin’s trade request and Patrick Kane’s free agency decision…
I’m not expecting much, and as I wasn’t down there myself this year, I can’t give you really good introductory assessments of the players (though I’ll try it if you want me to).
Something is always better than nothing, don’t get me wrong, but there could have been more cultivation of the excitement around the “next generation” spending a week learning both on and off the ice at Little Caesars Arena.
