Red Wings prospect Theodor Niederbach is taking part in the World Junior Championship with Team Sweden, and then he’ll head back to the SHL to play for his new team in Rogle BK.
Niederbach spoke with Rogle’s website’s Peter Ekholm regarding his expectations for the World Junior Championship. What follows is roughly translated from Swedish:
Continue reading Roughly translated: Theodor Niederbach speaks with Rogle BK’s website about the WJCThe Hockey News’s Steven Ellis posted a list of 20 players to watch at the World Junior Championship, and only one Red Wings player made his cut in Simon Edvinsson:
Simon Edvinsson, D (SWE): With Moritz Seider already making his mark, Edvinsson isn’t far away from becoming the next impact Detroit Red Wings defender. A smart defender with tremendous size and reach, Edvinsson moves well for a 6-foot-6 beast and he isn’t afraid to carry the puck down the ice, either. Edvinsson has true top-pairing potential in the NHL, and this will be a good test for the 19-year-old, especially with a Red Wings roster spot a true possibility.
Continued; here’s hoping Edvinsson, who’s banged up a bit, can play tomorrow.
From Hockeysverige.se’s Rasmus Kagstrom:
Anton Olsson and Simon Edvinsson may miss the WJC premiere
Both Simon Edvinsson and Anton Olsson left with injuries in the WJC exhibition game with Canada. When the Junior Crowns practiced the day before Wednesday’s opener vs. Switzerland, neither was on the ice.
“We will evaluate them now,” says team coach Tomas Monten.
Edmonton. Tomorrow the Junior Crowns start the WJC tournament with a game against Switzerland. In the exhibition game against Canada on Monday, both Anton Olsson and Simon Edvinsson were forced to leave with injuries–and ahead of Wednesday’s premiere game, the defensive duo’s status is still unclear.
Neither Olsson or Edvinsson practiced with the team on Tuesday.
“It’s all right with them. They were involved and did some rehab. We’ll evaluate them now, then we’ll see how it goes. We’re hopeful,” says team captain Tomas Monten.
“Yes, no BS”
If the defensemen don’t play, after all, Monten will still have six healthy defensemen available.
“We usually use seven defensemen, and it’s clear that you always want to dress the team that you want, but this is something that happens.”
But if there had been the WJC final tomorrow, would both have been able to play?
“Yes, no BS talk.”
Of quick World Junior Championship-related note:
Red Wings prospect and Acadie-Bathurst Titan goaltender Jan Bednar stopped 24 of 28 shots in the Czechs’ 5-4 victory over Slovakia in the World Junior Championship’s opening game.
Here are the game’s highlights on Vimeo:
Red Wings prospect Joe Veleno spoke with La Presse’s Katherine Harvey-Pinard regarding his offseason training regimen and his hopes of making the Red Wings’ roster full-time this upcoming season. What follows is roughly translated from French:
Continue reading Roughly translated: Joe Veleno speaks with La Presse regarding his offseason outlookJoe Veleno is confident in the process
Joe Veleno has reached a new stage in his career by playing almost a complete first season in the NHL in 2021-2022. Although his development is not complete, the 22-year-old forward is hopeful that he’ll become an impact player.
A first-round pick, 30th overall, of the Red Wings in 2018, Veleno has spent the last few seasons in the American Hockey League–including 46 games in Sweden during the first pandemic year in 2020-2021.
Recalled from the Grand Rapids Griffins by the Detroit Red Wings at the end of October, the Montreal native scored a goal and added an assist in his first game [vs. Toronto]. He was then able to play in 66 games in Gary Bettman’s league. The previous season, he only took part in 6 games in the red and white uniform.
“I gained a lot of experience. I had the chance to play in a lot of games this year, and see the difference between the American League and the NHL,” says the center, who we met at the Kevin Raphael Classic on August 6th.
Enjoy:
Ahead of Thursday’s arbitration hearing….
Arbitration filings for Jake Walman (DET): Team is at $775K/$225 (two-way)…player ask is a one-way at $1.7M— Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) August 9, 2022
Thanks to the Detroit News’s Nolan Bianchi for the Tweet.
The Detroit Red Wings’ 9 prospects participating in the World Championship will begin play in Edmonton today, and here’s the TV schedule for today’s games:
Czechia (Jan Bednar) vs. Slovakia, 2 PM EDT on TSN and the NHL Network;
Finland (Eemil Viro) vs. Latvia, 6 PM EDT on TSN and the NHL Network;
USA (Carter Mazur, Red Savage) vs. Germany, 10 PM EDT on TSN and the NHL Network.
#WorldJuniors GAME DAY:
Czechia 🇨🇿 🆚 Slovakia 🇸🇰: 2pm et on TSN 1/4
Latvia 🇱🇻 🆚 Finland 🇫🇮: 6pm et on TSN1
USA 🇺🇸 🆚 Germany 🇩🇪: 10pm et on TSN 1/4
Also LIVE on https://t.co/BQGeAnElqf and the TSN App: https://t.co/3PTSwVFR94#TSNHockey pic.twitter.com/ijQ2XLtL0L— TSN Hockey (@TSNHockey) August 9, 2022
The #WorldJuniors are BACK on NHL Network! Today’s triple header gets underway at 2pm ET with Slovakia vs. Czechia.
6pm ET – Finland vs. Latvia
10pm ET – Germany vs. @usahockey pic.twitter.com/fCyPM7T6Bj— NHL Network (@NHLNetwork) August 9, 2022
Sportsnet’s Jason Bukala filed an article discussing several players to watch at the World Junior Championship, and his only Red Wings player included is Acadie-Bathurst Titan goaltender Jan Bednar:
Jan Bednar
Goalie | Catches left | Six-foot-four | 201 pounds | Detroit Red Wings (fourth round, 107th overall in 2020)
Team Czechia has a history of using more than one goalie at this event so it’s not a given that Bednar gets the net and keeps it. Having said that, the team will need big saves throughout the tournament and Bednar appears to have the most capable pedigree to give them a chance. This tournament could provide Bednar an opportunity to impress the Red Wings brass. He’s unsigned to date so he will want to prove he’s ready for a contract.
Continued; Bednar makes the big saves, but it’s his concentration and consistency that need work.
Detroit Hockey Now’s Bob Duff asked HockeyProspecting.com‘s Byron Bader about the Red Wings’ prospect pool and 2022 draft picks, and Duff received mixed answers regarding the former and the latter:
“Their big strength is just the depth of the system,” said NHL Draft consultant Bader, founder of HockeyProspecting.com. “They have a ton of players in the system that have sort of NHLer potential, you could call it. And some star potential as well.”
Bader isn’t as certain about the depth of prospects who were Detroit’s selections in the 2022 NHL entry draft.
“In terms of their picks, their first three picks were okay, pretty decent value,” Bader assesses. “Then after that, it seemed like they got just a lot of low probability guys.
“Even a guy like (Marco) Kasper, who they took eighth overall. There were a lot of players at that point that show a lot better in my analytical models. When they take Kasper, there was so many players still there. There was (Matthew) Savoie, (Denton) Mateychuk, (Danila) Yurov, all these guys with super high NHLer probability and also star potential that were sitting there.”
