ALL IN FOR QUINN? McLellan Fed Up and Red Wings Need Help - Nov. 27th, 2025

Winged Wheel Podcast - A Detroit Red Wings Podcast

Winged Wheel Podcast

Sports, Hockey

4.9 • 968 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

The Detroit Red Wings can't string together solid games, and Todd McLellan is just about done with it.

Tune in as we open by discussing the New Jersey Devils game, including Compher's hit on Hischier and fight vs. Noesen, Chiarot's butt-end on Nemec, Siegenthaler's blindside on Raymond, Hamonic's rough game, Larkin, DeBrincat, Seider, Patrick Kane, & other performances with Edvinsson out, & more (4:25).

Next, the brutal loss to Barry Trotz' Nashville Predators, including miscues from just about the entire team, Gustafsson and Hamonic on defense, how the team's play affects Finnie, Sandin-Pellikka, Danielson, Kasper ), & other young players, & more as Steve Yzerman's squad struggled on home ice, plus what's wrong with this team from its best players down to its depth in guys (like Copp, Compher, Johansson, etc.) (13:10).

We then discuss whether Steve Yzerman should go all out for a guy like Quinn Hughes & how much that would fix (and the cost of acquisition), or what other depth moves would be needed to shore up the team (39:45).

All of that & lots more before we take your questions and comments in our Overtime segment (1:00:40) - enjoy and Happy Thanksgiving!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Wingwheel podcast, the number one source for news, analysis, and discussion on the Detroit Red Wings, the NHL, and all things hockey.
0:19.2	Here are your hosts, Brian Hanna, Brad Criscoe, and Evan Lopsinger.
0:28.3	Brad, I want you to tell the listeners and the viewers what you turned around and said to me
0:32.6	before the puck dropped yesterday at the Nashville game.
0:35.3	I'm not even going to give you any more context than that because we're both thinking the same thing right now.
0:39.9	Are you ready for the Red Wings to make this guy look like a Vesnick candidate?
0:43.9	That one?
0:45.1	Oh, was it a Nashville goalie stat?
0:47.6	Eustace Annen did not have a win this year.
0:50.3	His save percentage would have made John Gibson look like John Gibson 10 years ago
0:55.3	was having an atrocious season and Brad just turned he actually Brad didn't even say
1:02.3	anything at first he just turned around and just gave me this like knowing smile like
1:06.7	painful smile like we all knew what was going to happen. Bet the under, well, the Red Wings goal scored under.
1:14.8	They scored on them too.
1:16.0	It wasn't even the problem, but that, like,
1:21.4	the Jersey game was, you know, one of those losses where you're like,
1:25.7	yeah, I'm, I'm happy with that as much as you can be with a loss. It was a good performance. You run that game back, you know, one of those losses where you're like, yeah, I'm happy with that.
1:29.5	As much as you can be with a loss.
1:30.3	It was a good performance.
1:33.4	You run that game back, you know, 10 more times they'll win, probably eight of them.
1:39.7	That Nashville game was like, wow, there are a lot of bad hockey players on this professional hockey team still.
1:42.7	Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
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