The dearth of news regarding the Red Wings’ general manager/president of hockey operations search is slowly but surely cracking. Last night, per SI’s Jonathan Bailey, PuckPedia posted the following Tweet:

There is word that some candidates who were involved in the Red Wings GM process have recently been told they are no longer in the running for the position

— PuckPedia (@PuckPedia) September 3, 2026

Of note from Detroit Hockey Now this morning:

1. According to Detroit Hockey Now’s Bob Duff, the Red Wings’ AHL affiliate, the Grand Rapids Griffins, should have a stacked roster this upcoming season, even given the likely NHL graduations of players like Carter Mazur, William Wallinder and Michael Brandsegg-Nygard:

The Griffins’ website currently lists 34 players as signed with the club.

That list includes 20 forwards: Carter Bear, Ondrej Becher, Tag Bertuzzi, Kaden Bohlsen, Michael Brandsegg-Nygard, Cameron Butler, Nate Danielson, Noah Dower Nilsson, Kienan Draper, Sheldon Dries, Dylan James, Jesse Kiiskinen, John Leonard, Carter Mazur, Nolan Moyle, Sutter Muzzatti, Theo Rochette, Dominik Shine, Wilmer Skoog, and Chase Stillman.

Then there are 10 defensemen: Ronnie Attard, Shai Buium, Justice Christensen, Marcus Crawford, Anton Johansson, William Lagesson, Alex Kannok Leipert, Axel Sandin-Pellikka, Jacob Truscott, and William Wallinder.

The four goalies are Trey Augustine, Carter Gylander, Jonathan Lemieux, and Michal Postava.

Continued; the AHL has no roster limit for teams, but it’s highly likely that some of the players signed to AHL contracts would be assigned to the ECHL’s Toledo Walleye for playing time.

2. Duff also reports that the Red Wings haven’t replaced radio color commentator Paul Woods yet. With training camp approaching, Duff believes that the Wings will platoon several voices alongside Ken Kal this upcoming season:

Detroit Hockey Now’s Kevin Allen posted a column which discusses the Red Wings’ imminent prospect tournament this afternoon. In the subscriber-only article, Allen highlights Nate Danielson, Theo Rochette, Carter Bear, Anton Johansson and Trey Augustine as five players who will serve as focal points as the Wings’ prospects play 3 games in 4 nights next weekend:

Who is Theo Rochette?

This is the 24-year-free agent forward the Red Wings signed out of the Swiss National League. The Red Wings don’t have an impressive history of hitting the lottery with European free agent signings. The organization took some criticism from Eduards Tralmaks because he didn’t believe he received a true chance to earn an NHL uniform.

But it will be new regime making decisions about Rochette. What we know about Rochette: he is a sformer QMJHL player who went undrafted. But scouts were impressed this past season when he put up 22 goals and 21 assists for 43 points in 46 games for Lausanne. He was a 106-point scorer in his final season in the QMJHL.

This was his third season in the Swiss League, and he has improved each season. The issue on Rochette is his smallish physique. He’s 5-10, and not much more than 170 pounds.

Continued (paywall); all four players could really improve their stock over the course of the prospect tournament, which is Allen’s point of emphasis.

Via Red Wings Prospects on Twitter, Red Wings prospect Max Plante has been named the captain of the University of Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs for the 2026-2027 season:

Ty Hanson and Max Plante will Captain the 2026-27 Bulldogs; Aaron Pionk and Zam Plante will Serve as Alternates

More on UMD's 2026-27 Captains: https://t.co/0rnqJn5V35 pic.twitter.com/jkmWkDTBlD

— UMD Men's Hockey (@UMDMensHockey) September 4, 2026

Red Wings prospect Eddie Genborg spoke with ST.nu’s Nathalie Vinroth for a paywalled article, and Hockeysverige.se’s Adam Wenborg provides us with a peek behind the paywall…

Genborg: “It feels like I’ve played here for a hundred years”

There will be no season on the other side of the Atlantic for Eddie Genborg. Instead, the 19-year-old World Junior Championship gold-medal-winning hero from last year will stay at home with Timrå all this upcoming season.

“It feels incredibly good to know that I will play here for another year,” he told Sundsvalls Tidning.

There have been reports before that Eddie Genborg will stay in Timrå. The Detroit-drafted forward suffered an injury during the AHL playoffs last season that he has had problems with until recently. This was the reason there was no pre-season training camp on the other side of the Atlantic [in Detroit].

Genborg has been training with the team on the ice for two week,s and is looking forward to a whole season fresh from the start in Timrå IK.

“It feels great to know that I will play here another year. It’s been pretty safe here all along, that’s what I’ve known. Given how well I enjoyed it here, it has been pretty obvious to me all the time,” he says to Sundsvalls Tidning.

Long-time NHL reporter Frank Seravalli has landed with Casino.org, and Seravalli provides an update on the Red Wings’ managerial search this morning:

The Detroit Red Wings have been without a permanent general manager since franchise icon Steve Yzerman was dismissed in mid-July.

Sources say Detroit hoped to have Yzerman’s successor in place by Labor Day. While that target has passed, a final decision could still come soon.

Several candidates have emerged in the search, including Florida Panthers assistant GM Brett Peterson and San Jose Sharks assistant GM Jeff Kealty. Another intriguing name in internal discussions is current Detroit Tigers GM Jeff Greenberg, who previously served as an associate GM with the Chicago Blackhawks.

However, despite initial reports, sources now indicate that Kealty has not actually interviewed for the position, even though Detroit received permission from San Jose to speak with him.

In the meantime, hockey operations continue to manage day-to-day duties as Detroit prepares for training camp. Whoever ultimately takes the helm will immediately inherit a major roster decision: the future of Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin.

Continued; this is a lot better than the nothing we’ve heard from the Red Wings’ organization thus far…

The Windsor Star’s Jim Parker profiles Red Wings prospect and Windsor Spitfires forward Michal Svrcek this morning.

Svrcek hoped to play for Brynas IF’s SHL team this past season, but instead, he battled through injuries as he skated for Brynas’ J20 team, and, ultimately, Vasteras IK of the Hockeyallsvenskan. He did play for Brynas late in the SHL season and during the playoffs, but only in a limited role…

And as such, he chose to head over to North America to try his luck with the OHL’s Windsor Spitfires:

“When I was in (Detroit’s) [rookie] camp, Windsor drafted me and I looked it up and I was close to Windsor,” Svrcek said. “The past is past and I’m just looking forward now. (Windsor) was one of the options. It was the main one to come here and play in such a good junior league is good for me and (my) development. When they wanted me to come here and play here, I started watching the results and I felt like that should be my team last year.”

[Spitfires head coach Greg] Walters is confident Svrcek will be a scorer in the OHL and anticipates him playing in all situations for the club.

“I would say I’m an aggressive player with a lot of energy and a lot of compete level,” Svrcek said. “Good offensive player, overall. That’s why I think they drafted me here. I think I’m the type of player this league likes, this team likes, and I’ll do everything I can to be helpful to the team. I have a couple of friends playing in this league. They said it’s a really offensive league and that suits me good.”

But aside from the skill level, Svrcek has a chance to bring some much-needed experience to a young Windsor roster. Aside from Cole Dubowsky and Shawn Costello, Svrcek is the only 2007-born forward on the roster.

Sportsnet’s Ryan Dixon discusses “one player who has to deliver for every Atlantic Division team,” and he’s not wrong in suggesting that 33-year-old free agent signing Viktor Arvidsson faces a significant amount of pressure to step up and replace Detroit’s losses in the secondary scoring department:

Detroit Red Wings: Viktor Arvidsson

Arvidsson posted 54 points last year for the Bruins, his best total since consecutive 61-point showings for the Nashville Predators in 2016-2017 and 2017-18.

Now, he lands in Detroit on a two-year deal with a Wings club that features all kinds of top-six uncertainty thanks to Dylan Larkin’s trade request and Patrick Kane’s departure as a UFA.

Even in a year that went well for him, Arvidsson missed 13 games due to injury and the 33-year-old hasn’t played 75 games in a season in nearly 10 years. With all the volatility in Detroit, there’s no doubt the Wings need Arvidsson to provide a steady dose of secondary scoring. Without that, Detroit could be in a world of trouble. 

Continued; Arvidsson will have to prove durable and consistent for the Red Wings to succeed, but that’s the truth about players like Marco Kasper, Emmitt Finnie and the rest of the Red Wings’ secondary scorers as well.

Detroit Hockey Now’s Max Smith plays “two truths and a lie” this morning, and I agree wholeheartedly with his second “truth”–a suggestion that the Red Wings’ total and complete radio silence about their GM search has damaged the organization’s perception:

Truth: Red Wings’ silence has only hurt their perception

While it was typical for there to be a certain lack of communication while the team was still under Yzerman. Part of the reason that was tolerated was because of his longstanding reputation with the team and the city’s media. Yzerman was a man of few words when he was captain of the team, and he continued that tradition as GM of the franchise.

That silence wore on fans’ patience and was no doubt part of the mixed reaction to his unceremonious exit.

Now, the team has gone nearly two months without finding a new GM and they haven’t been very communicative with the search process. That’s led to an ample breeding ground for rumor mill churn and misinformation as aggregators pick up old information for new engagement.

Communicating about who they’ve interviewed, or at least where they are at in the process would do a lot to help restore confidence in team ownership.

Continued; Yzerman’s regime simply held its secrets and opinions alike very close to the vest, which is a difficult road to go in an era of better media relations by NHL Teams…

But continuing the strategy of not talking unless something happens is just not a smart option. It’s September, and the public that pays a whole lot of money to both watch the team in person and watch the team on TV/online are getting restless and worried about the product that will be on the ice later this month…

But nobody knows what’s going on with the front office. Even an, “We continue to evaluate candidates for our GM’s position” from the team would pave the road to forgiveness for radio silence, and we haven’t heard that much yet. That’s a bit dangerous as far as I’m concerned.

The Detroit Red Wings posted a 13:46 clip highlighting the offseason exploits of one Emmitt Finnie: