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If you’re not already familiar with the situation, former Red Wings forward Sergei Fedorov won a Gargarin Cup as the coach of CSKA Moscow last spring, and, also last spring, former Red Wing Igor Larionov inked a 3-year deal to coach Torpedo Nizhny Novogorod.

Slava Kozlov is also an assistant coach with Moscow’s Spartak, so the coaching bug has caught on with former Russian Red Wings, as Detroit Hockey Now’s Bob Duff notes:

As a player with the Red Wings, Larionov found the defensive hockey preferred by most teams during the NHL of the 1990s to be abhorrent. He kept calling it “destroy hockey.”

His promise as a coach is that his club will play an up-tempo brand of hockey.

“We want to play some exciting hockey, which should be fun to play,” Larionov told KHL.ru. “Our game will be aimed at attacking. We are not interested in playing for a 1-0 result, we want to score a lot in every game. We want to play some combinational, creative hockey.”

Among his players are his son Igor Larionov II and forward Dennis Yan, last season a member of the Red Wings’ top farm club, the AHL Grand Rapids Griffins.

Continued; as Duff notes, Slava Fetisov is the chairman of the KHL’s Board of Directors, and he represents Vladivostok in the Russian Federal Assembly. Fetisov is the reason why Vladivostok’s hockey arena was built, so he had some ties to the original iteration of the Admiral Vladivostok.

As you might imagine, all of this stuff gets a little complicated given that the KHL’s teams are mostly owned by oligarchs who have close ties to a certain hockey-playing despot…

NHL.com’s fantasy hockey staff, a.k.a. Pete Jensen and Anna Dua, offered an analysis of how the NHL’s most significant free agent signings should re-shape the rosters of their respective teams. They offer the following take on the Red Wings’ signings of Andrew Copp and David Perron:

RED WINGS SIGN PERRON, COPP: The Detroit Red Wings signed forwards David Perron (two-year contract) and Andrew Copp (five-year contract), significantly boosting their top-six forward group for this season.  

Copp brings versatility to the rebuilding Red Wings and is likely to be their No. 2 center with exposure to two of the following valuable wings: Perron, Jakub Vrana and Tyler Bertuzzi. Perron had 57 points (27 goals, 30 assists) in 67 games with the St. Louis Blues last regular season and led them in points (13 in 12 games) and goals (nine) during the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Perron, who’s like to play on the second line with Copp, brings the experience and consistency (at least 40 points in six straight seasons) to increase the fantasy value of both forwards. 

Copp was better than a point per game (18 in 16 games) last regular season and an instrumental part of New York’s run to the Eastern Conference Final (14 points in 20 Stanley Cup Playoff games). Copp loses some fantasy appeal moving away from the Rangers’ second line with elite left wing Artemi Panarin but remains in the top 250 for one of the most-improved teams in Detroit, which also acquired Ville Husso from the St. Louis Blues and is expected to incorporate elite defenseman prospect Simon Edvinsson.

Continued; here’s hoping that Edvinsson makes the cut.

Via Paul Kukla of Kukla’s Korner: Red Wings defenseman Moritz Seider took part in the NHL/NHLPA’s Media Tour for European players in Paris, France yesterday and today, and Getty Images posted a slate of dramatic photos of the handsome gentlemen who took part. Including Mr. Seider:

Update: Look who noticed:

The MOst interesting man. pic.twitter.com/7zP0uws7J6— Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) August 25, 2022

This is appointment viewing:

Deputy Commissioner of the NHL, Bill Daly joins Elliotte Friedman and Jeff Marek on 32 Thoughts from Paris, France as part of the European Player Media Tour. Bill discusses a wide range of topics with Elliotte and Jeff including the possibility of the salary cap going up sooner, how to expand the game in Europe and the latest with the Hockey Canada investigation.

New Red Wings goaltender Ville Husso spoke with “The Word on Woodward’s” Daniella Bruce and Art Regner:

With the World Junior Championship coming to an end and the dog days of summer upon us for a couple of days (don’t worry, the news cycle will pick back up very soon), I’ll be leaving to head up to Traverse City for the Red Wings’ prospect tournament and training camp in three weeks, but I’m still not sure how I’m going to pay for it.

The same is true for fixing my 17-year-old Chrysler Pacifica, which needs a new headlight, a new tail light and an oil change…And I don’t have enough money to renew the website at the end of the month, either. Which is not ideal.

So, it’s time to do that fundraising dance again. I apologize in advance, but this is how I survive and hopefully thrive, and it’s all up to reader contributions.

I cranked out 12 days’ worth of World Junior Championship coverage sans a peep, perhaps to my own detriment, but now I’ve got to ask. So I’m asking for help getting up to Traverse City (the hotel alone is $2,000 this year) and renewing the website’s couple hundred bucks’ worth of subscriptions, too.

If you can assist the cause, I would greatly appreciate it. So:

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MLive’s Ansar Khan posted a profile of Red Wings 2022 draft (40th overall) pick Dylan James, who will be entering his freshman season with the University of North Dakota, after having won a Clark Cup with the USHL’s Sioux City Musketeers this past season:

James tallied 28 goals and 61 points in 62 games, including 13 goals and 25 points over the final 18 games [of the 2021-22 USHL Season]. Limited to seven games the previous season with Okotoks in the Alberta Junior Hockey League due to the pandemic, the Calgary native needed some time to get into a rhythm.

“I think I quarantined for like 50 days at three different times (in 2020-21),” James said. “That was tough, on and off. You didn’t know if you were going to practice that afternoon. Coming to the USHL, I was a little nervous. I hadn’t played in a season. After Christmas I feel like I played my best. I feel like I was getting comfortable with the city, the new teammates and the coaches, what they want out of me. Obviously, getting older you’re getting stronger, so that helped.”

James, 18, attended Red Wings development camp last month at Little Caesars Arena as he prepares for his freshman year at North Dakota.

“I was pretty young when I made that decision,” he said. “I loved the coaching staff. You see their history, winning national championships (eight, behind only Michigan and Denver with nine each). That was a big key in going. Their facility is unreal. I’m just going to go there and try to work really hard. Nothing’s given to you there. I’ll just go there and try to get better every day.”

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Detroit Hockey Now’s Bob Duff posted a profile of Red Wings prospect and 2022 draft pick Anton Johansson, who’s apparently having a solid preseason as he attempts to break into Leksands IF’s men’s team:

At 6-foot-4 and 172 pounds, he is lanky, with the potential to really fill out and grow into his body. He sizes up well in more areas than just as a physical specimen, however.

Anton Johansson displays an impressive offensive upside. He’s a strong skater, transports the puck effecitvely and is equipped with a booming shot.

“We like the size, the right shot, puck-moving defenseman that we were excited to get,” Red Wings director of amateur scouting Kris Draper said. “We really like the path that he’s on.”

Last season, Johansson started the campaign with Leksand J18. He moved up to the club’s J20 squad and even graduated to play four games for the Leksand senior squad in the SHL, Sweden’s top flight.

Due in part to a COVID-19 outbreak within the club, Johansson is being offered the chance to display his wares during the SHL preseason and it’s been going well for him.

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The Hockey Writers’ Tony Wolak dug up an interesting job description this morning…

The Red Wings have an analytics job open for those who are interested 👀 #LGRW https://t.co/sM1kdIjg9r— Tony Wolak (@TonyWolak) August 23, 2022

I was going to post this last night, but WXYZ’s YouTube channel has disabled playback when you embed videos. So, per WXYZ’s Brad Galli…

Andrew Copp is getting a bobblehead night at @USAHockeyArena on January 7.@umichhockey @DetroitRedWings @USAHockeyNTDP @Copp94 pic.twitter.com/nV6bFPDdKx— Brad Galli (@BradGalli) August 24, 2022