Tweet of note: When the Wings selected Michael Brandsegg-Nygard (and a one-timer from Buccigross)

There’s a comment made by one ESPN’s John Buccigross made during this clip that’s earning some traction on social media…

Also:

Tweet of note: Hello, Emmitt Finnie!

Red Wings prospect Emmitt Finnie spoke with Bally Sports Detroit’s Natalie Kerwin from the Red Wings’ draft watch party:

Press release: the Red Wings post official MBN presser

Per the Detroit Red Wings:

RED WINGS SELECT FORWARD MICHAEL BRANDSEGG-NYGÅRD 15TH OVERALL IN 2024 NHL DRAFT 

  … Fifth-Ranked International Skater Becomes First Norwegian-Born Player to be Selected in the First Round of an NHL Draft …

DETROIT – The Detroit Red Wings today selected forward Michael Brandsegg-Nygård in the first round (15th overall) of the 2024 NHL Entry Draft at Sphere in Las Vegas.

Brandsegg-Nygård spent the majority of the 2023-24 season with Mora IK in Sweden’s second-highest professional league, recording 18 points (8-10-18), a plus-three rating and 19 penalty minutes in 41 regular-season games. The 6-foot-1, 207-pound forward also collected 10 points (4-6-10) and eight penalty minutes in 12 postseason contests, helping Mora IK reach the Semifinals for the second consecutive season. Additionally, Brandsegg-Nygård logged 12 points (5-7-12), a plus-nine rating and 10 penalty minutes in seven games with Mora IK’s under-20 team in Sweden’s top junior league. A native of Oslo, Norway, Brandsegg-Nygård is the first Norwegian-born player to be selected in the first round of an NHL Entry Draft.

Brandsegg-Nygård debuted with Mora IK in 2022-23, logging three points (1-2-3), a plus-three rating and six penalty minutes in 11 games, along with 38 points (17-21-38) in 35 games at the under-20 level and 10 points (5-5-10) in four games with the under-18 squad. Prior to arriving in Sweden, Brandsegg-Nygård made his professional debut as a 16-year-old with Vålerenga in the EliteHockey Ligaen, skating in eight games in Norway’s top professional league during the 2021-22 campaign. He also collected 42 points (24-18-42) in 25 games with Vålerenga’s under-20 squad and 19 points (10-9-19) in seven games at the under-18 level in 2021-22. Brandsegg-Nygård paced Norway’s under-18 circuit with 16 goals in eight games in 2020-21.

On the international stage, Brandsegg-Nygård played for Norway at the 2024 IIHF World Championship, recording five points (3-2-5) in seven games en route to being named one of his country’s top three performers. He also represented Norway at the 2024 IIHF World Junior Championship, logging five points (3-2-5) in five games. Brandsegg-Nygård won a gold medal at the 2023 IIHF World Junior Championship Division I, collecting five points (2-3-5) in five games, and also captured a silver medal at the 2022 IIHF World Under-18 Championship Division I with four points (2-2-4) in five appearances.

Detroit currently has seven selections for the second day of the 2024 Entry Draft: one in the second round (47th overall), one in the third round (80th), one in the fourth round (126th), one in the fifth round (144th), one in the sixth round (176th) and two in the seventh round (203rd and 208th).

Update: Here’s NHL.com’s scouting report:

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Red Wings draft Michael Brandsegg-Nygard 15th overall in the 2024 NHL Draft

The Detroit Red Wings have drafted Michael Brandsegg-Nygard with the 15th overall pick in the 2024 NHL Draft.

PARADISE, NV – JUNE 28: Michael Brandsegg-Nygard is drafted by the Detroit Red Wings in the first round during the Upper Deck NHL Draft on June 28, 2024 at the Sphere in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Jeff Speer/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
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The begging and pleading part of the fundraiser

Good morning.

Things are not going super in terms of raising funds to get me down to the Red Wings’ summer development camp next week. We raised $270 of the approximately $900 or so needed to rent a vehicle in order to get me downtown on the first day of fundraising…

And we haven’t raised a penny since.

I understand that it’s hard to pay for a product when it’s not here yet, but I’ve attended these development camps since 2006, and if I was able to drag down the 18-year-old Pacifica with its tailpipe scraping the ground, I would…But I can’t do that safely, so I need your help.

If you can’t or won’t donate, I ask you to please share this fundraiser with your friends, so that we can at least keep a sliver of hope available regarding being able to rent a vehicle to safely attend the Wings’ prospect camp by Monday, July 1st.

If that’s not possible…It’s really going to break my heart, and make me incredibly sad, but my family has endured so many setbacks and difficulties over the course of the last eight months that I won’t let it break me. I hope.

Anyway, things are going shittily, and all I can do at this moment is hope against hope that the unthinkable might actually come to pass.

Thanks for reading.

If you’re at all interested in having me attend the Red Wings’ summer development camp next week, here are the fundraising details: you can use PayPal at https://paypal.me/TheMalikReport, Venmo at https://venmo.com/george-malik-2, Giftly by using my email, rtxg@yahoo.com, at https://www.giftly.com. And you can contact me via email if you want to send me a paper check. I’m also on Cash App under “georgeums.”

Quid-pro-prospect fundraising update

Good evening, everybody.

We’ve been a little busy at TMR headquarters as our air conditioner has ceased to function, so I’ve got an 82-year-old sweltering upstairs in 80-degree heat at 11 PM, and so we’ve spent the past couple of days sorting out our options and working with a HVAC company to finance an air conditioner, which will be installed tomorrow morning.

In terms of the Quid-Pro-Prospect fundraising drive, we’re doing pretty well. We’ve raised $270 over the course of 2 days, which means that we’ve got about $700 to go. I’m hoping to pick the vehicle up sometime on Monday, July 1st (UFA day), so we’ve got approximately five days to work out the funding.

If you’re at all interested in having me attend the Red Wings’ summer development camp next week, here are the fundraising details: you can use PayPal at https://paypal.me/TheMalikReport, Venmo at https://venmo.com/george-malik-2, Giftly by using my email, rtxg@yahoo.com, at https://www.giftly.com. And you can contact me via email if you want to send me a paper check. I’m also on Cash App under “georgeums.”

Thanks again for your time and support. I know it’s been a weird year for TMR–first I got sick, then some profound depression hit, and had to be sorted out, and then Aunt Annie suffered falls and eventually a broken hip.

But we’re going to try to get back to “normal” this summer, and whatever that normal is, we’ll try to continue it into the 2024-2024 regular season.

It’s been a wild ride of on-and-off-again coverage for me, and I don’t like that fact, but life isn’t easy for a one-person blog whose blogger is also an elder caregiver. Aunt Annie is very supportive of this endeavor, however, and we both want to make this work.

Thanks again.

A little quid-pro-prospect

Good morning, everybody.

I’ve been immersed in the caregiving process for the past couple of months as my aunt has recovered from double hip replacement surgery, but the draft and free agency are coming…

And I’d like to be able to at least get to the Red Wings’ summer development camp after the draft to do some work for you.

Regrettably, my 18-year-old Chrysler Pacifica’s tailpipe is dragging on the ground in three places, and there are parts falling off under the driver’s side door as well.

As such, it would be optimal if I could rent a vehicle for the five or so days that the Red Wings hold their summer development camp–most likely starting on July 1st or July 2nd–so I’m throwing a Hail Mary pass here with little notice.

Securing a vehicle for a week costs $500-600 including taxes and fees, and there’s a $300 deposit as well. If there is any way that we can defer the costs of renting a car, getting some gas into the vehicle and some food into me, that would be more than “generous compensation” on your behalf.

And if we don’t make the fundraising goals by the end of the week, I’ll just refund your donations.

If you’re willing to take part in this little endeavor, here are the details:

A GoFundMe is not useful in this instance as it can take a week to two weeks for funds to reach me, so: you can use PayPal at https://paypal.me/TheMalikReport, Venmo at https://venmo.com/george-malik-2, Giftly by using my email, rtxg@yahoo.com, at https://www.giftly.com. And you can contact me via email if you want to send me a paper check. I’m also on Cash App under “georgeums.”

I know I’m springing this one on you at the last minute, but I’m hoping that we can work something out so that a week from now, I’m writing up prospect reports for you.

Thanks for your time!