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Prospect round-up: Berggren, Veleno, Seider score goals in SHL

Of prospect-related note:

In the Finnish Liiga, Victor Brattstrom stopped 15 of 17 shots as KooKoo won 3-2 in a shootout over HPK;

Eemil Viro had 2 shots and finished even in 14:52 played as TPS Turku won 2-1 over SaiPa;

In a difficult outing, Otto Kivenmaki finished even in 11:48 played and Kasper Kotkansalo finished at -2 in 19:09 played as Assat Pori lost 9-1 to Lukko Rauma.

In the SHL, Jonatan Berggren scored a goal on 2 shots, finishing at +1 in 17:42 played as Skelleftea AIK won 3-2 in overtime over IK Oskarshamn:

Joe Veleno scored his first SHL goal on 1 shot, finishing at +1 and winning 46% of his faceoff in 15:14 of ice time as the Malmo Redhawks won 7-2 over Brynas:

Moritz Seider had an up-and-down game, scoring a goal, taking 4 shots and finishing even in 22:39 played as Rogle BK lost 6-5 in overtime to Orebro Hockey. Matias Brome had an assist, 1 shot, and finished at -1 in 18:58 played.

Albert Johansson had 2 shots and finished at +1 in 14:06 played as Farjestads BK won 5-0 over Djurgardens IF. Albin Grewe had 1 shot in 9:53 played for Djurgarden;

Lucas Raymond had 1 shot in 12:15 played as the Frolunda Indians won 3-1 over Linkopings HC;

Tonight, in NCAA Division I hockey, Sam Stange and the University of Wisconsin will battle Notre Dame (on the NHL Network at 7 PM);

In the USHL, Kyle Aucoin and the Tri-City Americans will battle Lincoln;

And Chase Bradley’s Sioux City Musketeers will tangle with the Waterloo Black Hawks.

Update: in NCAA Hockey, Ryan O’Reilly scored a goal on 1 shot and finished at -1 in the Arizona State University Sun Devils’ 8-1 loss to the University of Michigan;

Sam Stange had 1 shot and finished at -1 as the University of Wisconsin Badgers won 5-3 over Notre Dame;

Update #2: In the USHL, Chase Bradley had 2 shots and finished even in the Sioux City Musketeers’ 4-3 win over Waterloo;

And Kyle Aucoin had an assist and 3 shots, finishing at +1 in the Tri-City Storm’s 3-2 OT win over Lincoln.

Nick Cotsonika speaks with Art Regner in latest ‘Red & White Authority’ podcast

DetroitRedWings.com’s Art Regner speaks with NHL.com’s Nicholas J. Cotsonika today for the latest “Red & White Authority” podcast:

Nick @Cotsonika discusses the possible scenarios for the upcoming NHL season and evaluates the #RedWings offseason on the latest Red & White Authority podcast.

Listen: https://t.co/HTvfTbRVUg
SoundCloud: https://t.co/pNdmdlAw1O pic.twitter.com/y5pBhzG3Em— Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) November 14, 2020

Wings prospect Donovan Sebrango announces fundraiser for National Service Dogs

This Tweet is the kind of stuff this blog hopes to amplify. Red Wings draft pick and Kitchener Rangers defenseman Donovan Sebrango has partnered with Ontario’s National Service Dogs to raise funds to purchase and train a service dog to be named “Ranger.”

Why’s he doing this? This Tweet explains:

Three Things: A pair of Wings-related Hockey News lists, and the latest ‘OctoPulse’ podcast

Of brief Red Wings-related note this evening:

  1. Five Red Wings cracked the Hockey News’s Matt Larkin’s “Top 250 Fantasy Hockey Players for 2020-2021” list:
Continue reading Three Things: A pair of Wings-related Hockey News lists, and the latest ‘OctoPulse’ podcast →

Duhatschek and Ken Holland discuss Hall of Fame memberships for scouts…Like Hakan Andersson

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Former Red Wings GM Ken Holland spoke with The Athletic’s Eric Duhatschek regarding the concept of scouts earning Hockey Hall of Fame memberships, and he pointed to a particular case as an example of great drafting and great scouting:

Within the context of a sensational late-round pick that pans out, how do you determine organizationally who gets the credit for making the choice? According to Holland, even that can be tricky because scouting is, above all, a collaborative exercise.

Holland cited the Red Wings as an example of how the process unfolds. Jim Nill was Holland’s assistant GM and he oversaw the draft until leaving to join the Dallas Stars as their GM in 2013 while Hakan Andersson is the team’s long-time European scout, responsible for selecting, among others, Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg, in the late rounds.

“So Hakan Andersson has a list of names and he’s sitting over Jim Nill’s left shoulder, and he’s saying, ‘I like this Pavel Datsyuk kid. I like him a lot.’ So, Jimmy Nill looks over his list and he doesn’t have anybody else and Hakan is pushing, pushing, pushing and so the Red Wings draft Pavel Datsyuk. And Pavel Datsyuk goes on to be one of the best players in Red Wing history.

“Now is that Jim Nill? Or is that Hakan Andersson? Well, it’s actually both. Jim Nill could have made the decision to draft a kid from Western Canada and not draft Pavel Datsyuk. But to Jim’s credit, as the chief decision-maker, he trusted Hakan Andersson’s judgment and Hakan delivered. Now is Hakan getting credit for that pick? Or Jim Nill? It’s in the eye of the beholder, right?”

Continued; Hakan Andersson should be a Hockey Hall of Famer for certain.

Prospect Round-Up: Brattstrom posts rare assist; Rasmussen gets 2 helpers for Graz

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Of prospect-related note from a little earlier this afternoon:

In the Swedish Allsvenskan, William Wallinder took 4 shots and finished even at 20:13 as MODO Hockey lost 6-2 to Sodertalje SK;

Gustav Berglund played 15:48 and finished even in Vasteras IK’s 4-0 win over Vasterviks IK;

In the Finnish Liiga, Otto Kivenmaki finished at +1 in 19:16 played, and Kasper Kotkansalo finished at -1 in 19:27 played as Assat Pori won 3-2 in overtime over HPK;

Victor Brattstrom stopped 13 of 15 shots and had an assist as KooKoo won 5-2 over the Lahti Pelicans;

In the Czech Extraliga, Filip Hronek finished at -1 in 23:53 played as Mountfield HK lost 4-1 to Liberec;

Filip Zadina took 3 shots and finished even in 16:49 played as HC Ocelari Trinec won 5-2 over HC Olomouc;

In the ICE Hockey League, Michael Rasmusen had 2 assists and 4 shots in the Graz99ers’ 5-4 win over the Bratislava Capitals;

And in NCAA Hockey, Sam Stange and the University of Wisconsin will battle Notre Dame this evening.

Update: Sam Stange had 3 shots in the University of Wisconsin Badgers’ 2-0 win over Notre Dame.

Update #2: Kyle Aucoin took 2 shots, took a penalty and finished at -1 in the Tri-City Storm’s 5-1 loss to Omaha;

And in other USHL action, Chase Bradley had an assist, a penalty and 3 shots as his Sioux City Musketeers lost 4-2 to Waterloo.

The Datsyukian deke prevails in Sportsnet’s latest ‘Greatest NHL Goal of the 21st Century’ match-up

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Sportsnet pitted Pavel Datsyuk vs. Blake Coleman in their latest “Greatest NHL Goal of the 21st Century” match-up…

And the original Datsyukian Deke won:

The Athletic’s Bultman engages in a Q and A with Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill

Yesterday afternoon, the Detroit News’s Ted Kulfan posted a Q and A session with Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill, and this morning, The Athletic’s Max Bultman offers a new Q and A session with the Red Wings’ bench boss. Among the highlights:

Bultman: When you think about planning a camp after an offseason like this, what goes into that? How normal will that be, whenever it does arrive?

Blashill: Yeah, obviously without knowing specifics of what that looks like, we’ve got to plan with a number of different models, depending on what gets thrown at us. Meaning, how many exhibition games, meaning how long is camp, how many players are at camp? Those are all unknowns.

So I think the most important thing for the Detroit Red Wings, with the fact we’ve been off as long as we’ve been off, is getting our hockey team as ready as possible to be ready to play as a unit when the season starts. And so sometimes during a normal training camp, you’re kind of serving two areas. One is getting your team ready, getting your players ready.

And two is looking at some of the really young players that you’ve drafted or that are potentially going to play for you down the road, and I would say — for a multitude of reasons — that won’t be a focus of this camp. Mainly, those guys won’t necessarily be here, and two we have to get as ready as possible, and we’ve never had a layoff this long. So I just think it helps narrow the focus of camp.

Continued (paywall)

Bob Kaser speaks to player agent Ryan Barnes in Griffins’ latest ‘Blasts from the Past’ video

Grand Rapids Griffins play-by-play announcer Bob Kaser discusses hockey and the transition to sports business with former Griffins player Ryan Barnes, who’s successfully transitioned from athlete to player agent, in the latest episode of Griffins “Blasts from the Past”: