From the Alpena News:

Friends Together, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing critical support, programs, and navigation services to cancer patients and their families throughout Northeast Michigan, has been selected as the official Detroit Red Wings Charity of the Game for the upcoming home matchup on October 4.

The Red Wings will host the Winnipeg Jets at Little Caesars Arena, with puck drop scheduled for 1 p.m.

As the featured Charity of the Game, Friends Together will have a dedicated promotional presence on the arena concourse during the event. Fans can visit the Friends Together table to learn more about their mission, engage with representatives, and participate in fundraising efforts.

Most importantly, community members and hockey fans can directly support the cause by purchasing tickets through an exclusive fundraising link. A significant portion of the proceeds from every ticket sold via this dedicated link will go back to Friends Together to fund free lodging, transportation, and support groups for those navigating a cancer diagnosis.

Via the Hockey News’s Karine Hains, TSN’s Bryan Hayes has discussed a hypothetical trade in which Dylan Larkin heads to the Montreal Canadiens (sans any named return), and Hayes does what radio hosts typically do–he suggests that it’s Larkin who must “come around” to such a trade because it “makes sense.”

Hayes believes Larkin would be an ideal fit with the Canadiens #OverDrive pic.twitter.com/qwgJJelcXR

— TSN (@TSN_Sports) August 25, 2026

Hains surmises the following…

Detroit Hockey Now’s Kevin Allen continues DHN’s profiles of the Red Wings’ top prospects with a profile of 2026 2nd round pick and University of Minnesota-Duluth forward Victor Plante:

Three Reasons Why Plante Will Play in the NHL

1. Fast. Crafty. Skilled. Despite his size, he goes to the net. Can handle the puck in traffic.
2. Always noticeable in tight, important games. The Plante family loves the sport.
3. Red Line Report, a long-time NHL scouting service, listed Victor as the 2026 NHL draft’s No. 1 pest. The publication called him “163 pounds of yappy little mutt who’s always nipping at your ankles.”

What May Hold Him Back

He is undersized, although that hasn’t held him back thus far. He will have to live in the weight room for a couple of summers to make sure he can measure up to beefier opponents.

Continued; Victor’s very much so like his brother, fellow Red Wings prospect Max Plante, but Victor does stand at 5’10” and 165 pounds (per EliteProspects), so Allen’s very accurate in suggesting that Plante has to work very hard to overcome his small size.

Two days ago, I mentioned that both the server fundraiser and the property taxes fundraiser were doing quite well, and I may have spoken prematurely. It’s fantastic that we’re about $200 from our server goal, and are up to $1,200 in the property tax fundraiser…

But we are facing an August 31st deadline to hit both the $600 figure and the $1,500 figure, respectively, and I’m anxious as all hell get out as we approach the finish line.

I’m trying to keep the blog running, and I’ve got a bit left to raise so that this can continue to be the PBS/NPR-style blog (fundraisers, yes, advertisements, no), via deferring the server cost…

And Aunt Annie and I are just trying to stay in our home, so we’re asking for help paying our property taxes.

If we didn’t absolutely have to ask for help, we sure as hell wouldn’t be doing it, but life is strange that way. We don’t make enough money to do more than barely pay our monthly bills, and that’s just how it goes when you’re living life as a caregiver and their recipient.

So, here’s the GoFundMe link…

From the Detroit Red Wings:

RED WINGS RELEASE NATIONAL BROADCAST SCHEDULE FOR 2026-27 SEASON

  … NHL to Feature Detroit on National Broadcasts 17 Times in 2026-27 …

DETROIT – The National Hockey League, in conjunction with ESPN and TNT Sports, today announced the national broadcast schedule for the 2026-27 season.

The Red Wings are currently scheduled to appear on 17 national broadcasts during the 2026-27 season. Detroit’s national broadcast schedule features one game on ABC, four games on ESPN, five contests on ESPN+, Disney+, and Hulu, and seven games on TNT Sports. 

Additionally, the NHL today announced local start time changes for the 2026-27 regular season. The following Red Wings games have been adjusted:

My apologies for the pause in blog entries today. Aunt Annie has required a ton of care and that’s interrupted coverage. I’ll try to return later this evening.

According to Detroit Hockey Now’s Bob Duff, Swedish SHL team Farjestads BK was so depleted on defense recently that they enlisted both a player who skates for its junior team, an NHL prospect, and one Albert Johansson to fill out FBK’s “D” during a recent preseason practice:

Johansson, Noel Fransen, who’s heading to play for the Carolina Hurricanes this season, and teenager Tom Bjurman donned their gear to fill out the Färjestad blueline brigade for practice.

 “It’s great to have eight defenders in training,” [Farjestads BK coach Cam] Abbott told Swedish website Värmlands Folkblad.

Färjestad is without injured defenders Magnus Nygren and Axel Bergkvist. Måns Gudmundsson is away on a national team assignment. The club also lost Cal Foote. They’d signed the former NHL defenseman. However, fan unrest over Foote’s involvement in the Hockey Canada sexual assault court case led to the club voiding Foote’s contract two days after signing him.

Continued

MLive’s Ansar Khan discusses whether “baseball guys” might be the answer to the Red Wings’ managerial search this morning.

Khan discusses both Detroit Tigers GM Jeff Greenberg and Tigers VP of analytics Andrew Thomas as candidates for the Red Wings’ GM/hockey of operations spot–two names mentioned by Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman on Tuesday’s 32 Thoughts podcast:

Although Greenberg is Tigers GM, Harris handles the transactions, at least the significant ones. Greenberg has mostly a baseball background, having previously worked for the Pirates, Diamondbacks and Cubs. But he also served as the Chicago Blackhawks associate GM for one season before coming to Detroit.

NHL insider Elliotte Friedman said Tuesday on his 32 Thoughts Podcast: “His dad, Chuck Greenberg, was Mario Lemieux’s lawyer when Lemieux was owed a lot of money and got an ownership share of the Penguins. Chuck Greenberg was one of the people that put that together. Really sharp guy. And he was a big hockey fan. He later became a part owner of the Texas Rangers. He was a player agent. He has a long history in sports. And when this opening first came up … I had a couple people say to me, watch Jeff Greenberg on this one.”

The Athletic’s Max Bultman lists 4 priorities for the Red Wings’ next GM or president of hockey operations this morning, suggesting that: The Red Wings need to re-sign Simon Edvinsson and Alex DeBrincat; the team should possibly ink a secondary scorer to replace Patrick Kane; the team needs to resolve the Dylan Larkin situation; and that the entire team’s “hockey ops” departments must be reevaluated:

4. Evaluate players, staff and process

Once the immediate transactions are done, this is really the task that will define much of the new GM’s first year. As with the roster, the new head of hockey operations will be taking over too late in the calendar to make many major changes to any 2026-27 staffing, but taking the first few months to evaluate what (and who) works well and how the organization does things will be foundational to the key decisions that person makes next spring and summer.

The players are one thing — and yes, the new GM will need some time to figure out exactly what is in place and where the biggest needs are before the March trade deadline. But the roster is just the start.

You can expect the new hire to modernize the Red Wings’ operations, and maybe that part can begin during the season. Building out that infrastructure, though, won’t be an overnight change. It will take time. Front offices are growing larger, and scouting, player development, sports science and a robust data operation are all part of the equation. How much of the Red Wings’ current approach needs an overhaul remains to be seen — but that’s exactly what the next GM will be evaluating and updating upon arrival.

Continued (paywall)

The Athletic’s Max Bultman discusses the Red Wings’ managerial search, the Dylan Larkin situation and more on the latest episode of the “Ozzy and Keats” podcast: