From the Detroit Red Wings:

RED WINGS RELEASE 2026 TRAINING CAMP ROSTER AND SCHEDULE

  … Forty-Nine Players Hit the Ice Beginning on Sept. 17 at BELFOR Training Center …

DETROIT – The Detroit Red Wings today released their training camp roster and schedule, comprised of 49 players who will hit the ice beginning on Thursday, Sept. 17 at the BELFOR Training Center inside Little Caesars Arena.

The Red Wings will bring 28 forwards, 16 defensemen and five goaltenders to Detroit to participate in daily on-ice practices and scrimmages. The Red Wings open their four-game preseason slate with road games against the Columbus Blue Jackets (Monday, Sept. 21 at 7:00 p.m.) and Pittsburgh Penguins (Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 7:00 p.m.), followed by home games against the Buffalo Sabres (Thursday, Sept. 24 at 7:00 p.m.) and Blue Jackets (Saturday, Sept. 26 at 7:00 p.m.)

Detroit Red Wings 2026-27 Training Camp Roster

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Matt Shepard of “X’s and BrO’s” spoke with Red Wings beat writer Max Bultman of The Athletic this morning, discussing the Dylan Larkin situation and the Red Wings’ decision to name Shawn Horcoff its interim GM:

Shep and @m_bultman of @TheAthletic had plenty to talk about with the #RedWings this morning from the offseason, new hire of Shawn Horcoff as general manager and this clip on Dylan Larkin below.

Listen to the full interview here: https://t.co/YMthF0gRia pic.twitter.com/MAjbBqq8Ka

— X's & BrO's (@XBMornings) September 16, 2026

The Athletic’s Dom Luszczyszyn and Scott Wheeler discuss the “contention cycles” of all 32 NHL teams this morning, suggesting that while the Red Wings‘ present is very middling, Detroit could have a very bright future thanks to its deep pool of prospects. The article heavily draws upon their prospect tier and player tier articles in assessing where the teams are at and where they could be in terms of their respective levels of talent:

Detroit Red Wings

Present Outlook (Rating: 5.4 [out of 10])

The Red Wings are an interesting place given the current malaise around the franchise, right next to the Sabres where the vibes couldn’t be better. What their placement says is that the team’s core is good enough to be playoff-worthy, especially with the leap Moritz Seider took last season. The potential growth of Lucas Raymond and Simon Edvinsson can cement that further. It’s everything else that’s become an issue, a testament to Detroit’s poor draft record during the Yzerman era. Is this the year they start seeing results?

Future Outlook (Rating: 8.2)

The Red Wings have studs in Seider, Raymond and Edvinsson and significant quantity in Prospect Tiers with nine players (!). They’re missing a true superstar up front, though and that’s the difference between a good score here and one that looks like San Jose’s or Anaheim’s.

Path to contention

The challenge with the Red Wings’ mix is that if one of those Tier 4/5 players doesn’t get to Tier 3, you end up with a playoff baseline and not a true contention window. And both I and the league aren’t sure which of those players we’d bet on to exceed their projection. If all of them hit but none of them are home runs, you have to count on a St. Louis Blues miracle where you’re a capital-T Team and everything comes together in some kind of perfect storm.

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The Free Press’s Shawn Windsor attempts to separate the intense criticism the Red Wings are facing from the background noise surrounding the team’s front office uncertainty and its captain wanting out.

Windsor suggests that Shawn Horcoff is a fairly good hire, and that the Wings need to step up to catch up with the Detroit Tigers in terms of prospect development…

And Windsor understands that fans are frustrated with the state of the team, too:

None of this looks good. At all. The Wings’ ownership has bobbed in the wind like a balloon character bouncing cluelessly down Woodward Ave in the Thanksgiving parade. That may be fun in November, but not so much in April, when the season already has flamed out.  

So call it a clown show if you must. Or an embarrassment, a laughingstock, the long, slow demise of an iconic franchise. Go ahead, let the air out after all those years of watching the team go nowhere, and then watching the search to replace the Hall of Fame player – who was supposed to bring back a June parade down Woodward – flail until the eve of training camp. 

Dysfunctional? How else should anyone see it? 

But then that doesn’t matter, at least it shouldn’t

It’s all just white noise. All that matters is that Ilitch – accidentally or not – finds the right person to get this franchise back to its storied place. Maybe it’s Horcoff, going from interim to full-time. Maybe it’s someone else.  

Whoever it is, the noise fades a little when the team makes the playoffs. Do that and this search and this offseason and this entire unfortunate slide disappears in a hurry. 

Winning is like that. It’s time for it to start once more.  

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The Athletic’s Max Bultman spoke with Red Wings defenseman Moritz Seider as Seider sat down with Bultman for an interview recently. Seider discussed the tumult surrounding the Red Wings as delicately as possible, emphasizing that it wasn’t easy to determine what went on while Seider spent his summer in Germany…

“It was hard,” Seider said last week, sitting outside a coffee shop in Detroit’s northern suburbs. “Especially like not being here and hearing all this noise.”

He leaned on phone calls to try and stay in the loop — first with Yzerman, when he was still in charge, and eventually with assistant general manager Shawn Horcoff, who was named Detroit’s interim GM on Tuesday. Seider picked their brains as he tried to separate fact from rumor on the internet.

“I think that was the hardest part for me,” he said. “That’s why maybe I stayed even home a little longer than usual, to try to escape that whole thing — because you will get confronted with it now that you’re here.”

And Seider discussed his hopes for this upcoming season…

The Free Press’s Helene St. James spoke with Red Wings prospect Nate Danielson after yesterday’s prospect tournament victory. Danielson told St. James that he’s recovering from a stress fracture injury which ended his season last February:

“I think [the prospect tournament will] definitely give me a little bit more leg up and and just kind of get back in that game shape a little quicker,” Danielson said after picking up an assist in the Wings’ 3-2 overtime victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets at Belfor training center inside Little Caesars Arena on Tuesday, Sept. 15. “I’m confident in myself and just want to go out there and play my game and not really worry about all that other stuff.”

Danielson assisted on Noah Dower Nilsson’s game-tying goal with a minute to go in regulation.

Grand Rapids Griffins coach Dan Watson understood that Danielson wasn’t at 100% during the tournament:

Expressen’s Gunnar Nordstrom has the scoop this morning on Red Wings defenseman Simon Edvinsson, whose North American agent, J.P. Barry, is negotiating a contract with Detroit interim GM Shawn Horcoff:

Negotiations underway for the Swedish defensive star

LOS ANGELES. The situation has brightened for Simon Edvinsson, 23, with the Detroit Red Wings.

Negotiations for a new multi-year contract are underway since the NHL club named Shawn Horcoff as interim general manager on Tuesday.

“We were talking to him today. He now has authority to negotiate on behalf of the team,” CAA agent J.P. Barry said to Expressen.

Edvinsson played out his rookie contract last spring, but negotiations to continue playing for the Red Wings were stranded in July after hockey GM Steve Yzerman was suddenly fired. Or stepped down on its own…There are divided opinions about what really happened there.

Simon Edvinsson is a key player in Detroit, and forms the team’s first defensive pair with the Moritz Seider.

The Swede’s value has increased significantly over the past year, and he is expected to get a substantial pay rise now.

Agents told Expressen with guesses that Edvinsson could get $7-9 million in this year’s salary. This corresponds to 68-88 million Swedish Krona, depending on how long the contract is agreed.

Simon Edvinsson traveled over to the United States and Detroit this weekend, and confirmed to Expressen the other day that he was in place in Hockeytown.

The training camp for the 2026-27 season kicks off on Thursday.

“We’ve got two weeks before the season starts, so hopefully we can find a deal before then,” said J.P. Barry.

Edvinsson earned last season $900 000 (about 8.7 million Swedish Krona).

Red Wings owner Chris Ilitch announced yesterday that the hunt for a new general manager is continuing, and that it has a large number of candidates have shown interest in the job.

Horcoff, who had the post of assistant GM since 2022, is one of the candidates, according to Ilitch. Steve Yzerman is now transitioning to a role as an advisor to the team’s management.

Red Wings forward Alex DeBrincat spoke to assorted media over the course of last week’s NHL/NHLPA Player Media Tour in Las Vegas.

On Tuesday, NHL.com/de’s Christian Rupp posted a different kind of interview with DeBrincat. First, it’s in German, and second, it’s an interview in which DeBrincat discusses his German-born teammate, Moritz Seider, and DeBrincat makes some cute comments therein.

What follows is translated from German:

DeBrincat: “Seider is like a teddy bear”

The Detroit Red Wings’ German defenseman chases the Norris Trophy as an Ironman and aims for the playoffs

Moritz Seider is already one of the best defenders in the NHL. Clearly, the 25-year-old German is among the top players on the Detroit Red Wings.

In the race for the Norris Trophy, which is awarded to the most complete defensive player during the regular season, the 1.88-meter-tall right-handed defenseman finished 5th behind Zach Werenski (Columbus Blue Jackets, 1.), Cale Makar (Colorado Avalanche, 2.), Rasmus Dahlin (Buffalo Sabres, 3.) and Evan Bouchard (Edmonton Oilers, 4.) in 2026.

An Ironman chases the Norris Trophy

“He’s very close to that goal, definitely one of the best defensive defenders, and he brings that offensive flair. He is not, without reason, one of the best players on our team,” says forward Alex DeBrincat, Seider’s teammate with the Red Wings.

With 10 goals, 50 assists and 60 points, a plus-minus balance of +15 and an average of 25:40 minutes of ice time per game, Seider set personal records last season. The international player also played all 82 games, extending his Ironman streak to 410 consecutive games.

“The way he plays–with all the blocked shots, checks and that he’s all over the ice–that has a lot to do with robustness,” DeBrincat said. “He certainly played on despite one or another injury. He’s one of those guys who just fights his way through everything. He always wants to help the team and do everything right.”

NHL.com’s Nicholas J. Cotsonika posted an updated, abbreviated preseason preview of the Detroit Red Wings ahead of the 2026-2027 season.

Cotsonika manages to both address the Dylan Larkin situation, the Shawn Horcoff situation, and Cotsonika still finds enough Red Wings-related information to produce a good, comprehensive preview:

How they make the playoffs

If the Red Wings are in position to make the Stanley Cup Playoffs again, they must close the deal. Each of the past three seasons, they have faded down the stretch. Last season, they were tied with the Carolina Hurricanes for first in the Eastern Conference and had a 12-point playoff cushion Jan. 24, then finished 9-15-5. From Jan. 25 through the end of the season, they ranked 30th in goals per game (2.55) and blew multiple third-period leads. Coach Todd McLellan said mental toughness was an issue, but it’s fair to wonder if they have been built to succeed when the hockey gets harder. Detroit ranked 30th in 5-on-5 goals (142) and 29th in hits (1,480) last season.

Most intriguing addition

The easy answer is forward Viktor Arvidsson, who should help offset the loss of forward Patrick Kane and boost 5-on-5 scoring. Arvidsson, who signed a two-year, $10 million contract July 1, had 54 points (25 goals, 29 assists) in 69 games for the Boston Bruins last season, including 45 points (21 goals, 24 assists) at even strength. Kane, who signed a two-year, $16 million contract with the Chicago Blackhawks on July 23, had 57 points (16 goals, 41 assists) in 67 games for the Red Wings last season, including 38 points (14 goals, 24 assists) at even strength. But don’t forget forward Keegan Kolesar, who should make Detroit more physical and help establish the forecheck. Kolesar, acquired from the Vegas Golden Knights on July 1, had 270 hits last season, seventh in the NHL, and has 1,416 hits since 2020-21, fourth in the League in that span.

Biggest potential surprise

Forward Michael Brandsegg-Nygard made the Red Wings roster out of training camp last season, but the No. 15 pick of the 2024 NHL Draft was sent to Grand Rapids of the American Hockey League after he had one assist in nine games. He had no points in five games during two NHL stints late in the season. But he had 44 points (20 goals, 24 assists) in 60 games for Grand Rapids, then eight points (four goals, four assists) in eight games in the Calder Cup Playoffs. He also had six points (three goals, three assists) in five games for Norway at the IIHF World Championship, including an assist in a 3-2 overtime win against Canada in the bronze-medal game, helping his country win a medal at worlds for the first time. He turns 21 on Oct. 5.

Continued with some praise for Justin Faulk’s potential fantasy hockey impact…

The Detroit Red Wings’ prospects won a 3-2 overtime decision over the Columbus Blue Jackets’ prospects on Tuesday afternoon, and the Wings’ beat writers have weighed in on the game.

The Hockey News’s Michael Whitaker provides a “just the facts” recap…

The Detroit Red Wings closed out the 2026 NHL Prospects Tournament on a winning note, defeating the Columbus Blue Jackets in comeback fashion by a 3-2 final score in overtime. 

Forward Justice Christensen, who signed with the American Hockey League affiliate Grand Rapids Griffins after playing the last four years with the WHL’s Prince Albert Raiders, scored twice, including the overtime game-winning tally. 

The scoring was opened Columbus in the second period after a disputed tally from Josh Eernisse; while the Red Wings argued that goaltender Trey Augustine was interfered with, the tally stood. 

Christensen scored his first of two goals on the afternoon not long afterwards, firing a slap shot past Blue Jackets goaltender Nolan Lalonde from the top of the faceoff circle while on the power-play. 

Columbus restored their one goal lead thanks to Jordan Dumais. However, with Augustine on the bench, Noah Dower Nilsson cleaned up a rebound in front of the net and deposited a backhander past Lalonde, knotting the score at 2-2. 

In overtime, it was Christensen converting on a give-and-go rush with Sutter Muzzatti for the game-winning tally. 

The Detroit News’s Ted Kulfan spoke with Christensen and Grand Rapids Griffins coach Dan Watson, who coached the prospects to a 2-and-1 record while playing 3 games over the course of 4 days and evenings: