Month: July 2026

From WXYZ:

The Detroit Red Wings announced the promotional giveaways and theme games for the 2026-27 season.

This will be the team’s 101st season after celebrating their centennial season last year.

Single-game tickets go on sale Tuesday, Aug. 4 and fans can sign up for a presale by visiting the 2026-27 Priority Presale page

The team will also celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Red Wings’ 2002 Stanley Cup Championship, plus give out salt & pepper shakers for the annual Thanksgiving Eve game.

Door Giveaways (Limited Quantities Available):

Continue reading WXYZ: Red Wings announce giveaways and theme game nights for 2026-2027 season

Per the Grand Rapids Griffins, defenseman and Red Wings prospect William Walliner turns 24 today:

Grattis på födelsedagen William! 🥳🎂 pic.twitter.com/4lp8PFfgUz

— Grand Rapids Griffins (@griffinshockey) July 28, 2026

The Red Wings just sent out this email to the public:

Continue reading Press release/email: Single-game Red Wings tickets to go on sale August 4th

The Detroit News’s Connor Eargood posted a profile of Red Wings prospect and incoming University of Wisconsin freshman Brent Solomon:

On a couch in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Detroit Red Wings draft pick Brent Solomon could only watch with his USHL teammates as Wisconsin played for a national championship this past April. A period away from a national championship, instead the Badgers blew a lead to Denver in a 2-1 loss. Now, Solomon joins Wisconsin eyeing redemption.

“It puts a little chip on our shoulder that we have one game to win next year,” Solomon told The News. “And we want to get back to that game, and that’s going to be the goal all summer.”

Continue reading A bit about Brent Solomon

Team USA White battled Sweden at the World Junior Summer Showcase today in Windsor, Ontario.

After Sunday’s 4-1 loss to Finland, JP Hurlbert remained on the top line, but Victor Plante was dropped down to the U.S. White team’s 2nd line, and Brent Solomon was utilized as a “floating” forward:

USA v SWE lineup card for WJSS match later tonight from Windsor pic.twitter.com/JKKUJ3cepr

— Mike Morreale (@mikemorrealeNHL) July 27, 2026

On Monday night, Team USA White won 6-4 over Sweden, and Daily Faceoff’s Steven Ellis reports that Victor Plante made an impact for the Americans:

#26 Victor Plante, LW (Detroit Red Wings): Plante was one of the best playmakers on the USNTDP, and he showed that in spades today with a trio of helpers. It’s games like today where he’s able to slow the pace of play down and utilize the extra space on the man advantage where you see just how valuable he is as a playmaker. The Red Wings have a solid prospect here.

Update: Here’s some video of Plante’s assists from Red Wings Prospects on Twitter:

Victor Plante(2nd round’26)
With 3 Assists 🍏🍎🍎last night. #LGRW pic.twitter.com/bPWqfwlC6R

— Red Wings Prospects (@LGRWProspects) July 28, 2026

This comes from an uncredited author on 97.1 the Ticket:

[Patrick] Kane is headed back to Chicago, on a two-year, $16 million deal to likely finish his Hall of Fame career where it started.

“If you would’ve asked me last year at the end of the season, I thought I would be going back to Detroit,” Kane said this week on the Pardon My Take podcast. “And you know, things happen, and then it’s like, OK, let’s just take our time, see what’s out there July 1st, and (Blackhawks) owner Danny Wirtz called me at, like, 11:03 [AM], as soon as free agency opened. It was actually kind of an emotional call from him, it was a call I’ll never forget. But all of a sudden you start thinking about, OK, well, there’s interest, maybe it’d be a cool place to come back and play.”

Kane said that Wirtz told him, “If you came back, it would be nothing like the city has ever seen before. You start thinking about that, the city of Chicago and how great of a sports town it is, and the memories here, that one hit me pretty hard,” said Kane.

Continue reading 97.1 the Ticket: Patrick Kane explains why he re-signed with Chicago on the ‘Pardon My Take’ podcast

I never know whether we’re allowed to share graphically-based stories on other blogs, but TSN’s Travis Yost posted a list of the top 10 players to draw penalties and another top 10 players who “draw advantages,” and both Lucas Raymond and Emmitt Finnie are elite in the second category:

Given the quietness of this part of the off-season, I wanted to refresh penalty numbers league-wide and see who else fills in our leaderboard. On the left-hand side, you have the league’s 20 best skaters over the past two seasons at drawing penalties outright; on the right hand side, you have the league’s 20 best skaters when it comes to net penalty advantage. Both tables are even-strength specific:

McDavid, Stutzle, and Pettersson all slide into the top 10 for net penalty advantage, and given the minutes they play and the quality of competition they face in these games, that’s a meaningful finding. Anaheim’s Troy Terry and Detroit’s Lucas Raymond are in similar position; exceptionally adept at finding more power plays for their respective teams.

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In a league that is increasingly defined by special teams efficiency and tight scoring margins, the ability to draw penalties while staying disciplined is a covetable skill. Teams that can identify and develop penalty advantage players carry a tangible edge. Over an 82-game season, it can be the difference between qualifying for the playoffs and an early summer vacation.

There’s more…

MLive’s Ansar Khan spoke with Red Wings prospect Carter Bear and Wings director of player development Dan Cleary regarding Bear’s progression this past season with the WHL’s WHL Everett Silvertips. Everett played its way to a WHL Championship this past season, and battled through to the Memorial Cup Final…

“It was good Carter had a long season,” Dan Cleary, Red Wings assistant director of player development, said during development camp in July. “When you go to late May, you lose a little bit of gym time. But he’ll be here all summer. I keep telling these kids my best advice I can ever give you is the harder you train in the summer, the easier the winter will be.”

Bear bounced back from Achilles surgery the previous spring to have a strong final junior season with WHL Everett. He led the Silvertips with 36 goals and was second with 77 points in 53 regular season games. He tallied seven goals and 15 assists in 18 playoff games. Everett lost to Kitchener 6-2 in the championship game.

“Just the amount of memories I gained and the friendships I made, it’s unbelievable,” Bear said. “You watch the Memorial Cup each year and playing in it was pretty special with the group of guys I had. It sucks how we fell short. But I think all that matters is I had fun and learning from my game, too.”

Now Bear, a left wing selected 13^th overall, is preparing for his first season with the Grand Rapids Griffins.

“It’s pro now; that’s a whole new level of hockey,” Bear, who turns 20 on Nov. 4, said. “It’s faster, got to be smarter and stronger. I just need to work on the game that Detroit wants me to work on.I think my skating; that’s one big thing. And obviously there’s strength, strength in the gym, off the ice.”

As Khan notes, Bear, who’s listed at 6′ and 187 pounds on EliteProspects, will have a bit of a challenge adjusting to the pace of pro hockey:

“Being a young winger, it’s going to be fast, everything’s going to happen much quicker,” Cleary said. “But he’s smart and he’s very competitive. You lose the puck; you go get it back. The adjustment for him will be the strength of defenders, the big defensemen, people leaning on you against the wall. But he’s smart and he wants it and he’s going to adapt fine.”

Detroit Hockey Now’s Max Smith spoke with incoming Minnesota-Duluth freshman Victor Plante about heading to UMD to play alongside his brothers, fellow Red Wings prospect Max Plante and Penguins prospect Zam Plante:

It’s no secret if you’ve read the scouting reports or stat sheets that the way Victor goes about his business on ice is different than either of his brothers.

He doesn’t quite have the eye popping offense of Hobey Baker winner Max. Or the vision of his brother Zam, who frequently acted as the set up man on Minnesota Duluth’s top line alongside Max last year. The eldest Plante finished the year with 20 goals and 31 assists, one point behind Max.

Continue reading A bit about Victor Plante’s ‘jam’

Detroit Hockey Now’s Bob Duff suggests that the Red Wings need not worry about losing Alex DeBrincat to a trade request #93 because plain old likes playing in front of family and friends in his hometown:

Coming back to Detroit meant the world to DeBrincat, and not merely to play for the Red Wings. Michigan is his home. His family is here. His parents, his children’s grandparents.

According to those who know him best, that they all get to be together is a factor he absolutely treasures.

There’s no Sheila E soundtrack playing in DeBrincat’s head. He doesn’t want to live the glamorous life.

Away from the rink, he just wants to stay home, be with his family, and embrace a simple existence.

“I love it here,” DeBrincat said at the end of the season, discussing his future. “This is my home. I’ve loved every bit of playing here.I think this is definitely a team I want to be a part of for a long time, and I think everyone knows that.”

Does that mean there’s absolutely no way DeBrincat would ever leave the Red Wings?No, of course not.

‘’It’s a business, so we’ll see what they want to do,” DeBrincat said.

Really, though, the Red Wings don’t have to do all that much to keep him here and keep him happy. Just pay the man what he’s worth. Give him that respect, and you’ve got him.

Continued; it is possible that someone is quite happy to be playing in a particular location despite their team’s on-ice setbacks…