Are the Red Wings the Real Deal? Early NHL Playoff Benchmarks - Nov. 2nd, 2025
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🗓️ 2 November 2025
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Are the Detroit Red Wings actually "NHL divisonal playoff seed" good, or is this just an early season mirage?
Tune in as we start by discussing the wild shootout win for the Red Wings over Todd McLellan and Cam Talbot's former team, the Los Angeles Kings: Marco Kasper's 2 goals (including an almost high-stick off of Sandin-Pellikka's shot), Alex DeBrincat scoring again, the late collapse and called off overtime winner due to Fiala's interference, Cam Talbot's massive stops, and Lucas Raymond's shootout winner (4:15). Also, Patrick Kane's injury, Austin Watson being called up over Nate Danielson, what this means for the Grand Rapids Griffins, and when Steve Yzerman and Todd McLellan may choose to bring Danielson into the fold (19:40).
Next, Detroit's loss to McTavish and the Anaheim Ducks as John Gibson revisits his former team: more DeBrincat goal-scoring, Raymond, DeBrincat, and Dylan Larkin syncing up, Moritz Seider's phantom "kicking motion", controversial reviews, & more (23:55).
After that, we discuss whether the Detroit Red Wings are truly a good team worthy of an NHL playoff seed, what's different this year as Emmitt Finnie and Patrick Kane continue to solve big problems in their top 6, how they might continue through tougher months, and how insanely close the Atlantic Division and Eastern Conference are (36:10).
Finally, NHL news & notes (including the Necas contract & Makar's next deal) (51:15) before we take your questions and comments in our Overtime segment (59:15) - enjoy!
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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, |
| 0:14.5 | on the Detroit Red Wings, the NHL, and all things hockey. |
| 0:19.1 | Here are your hosts, Brian Hanna, Brad Criscoe, and Evan Lopsinger. |
| 0:27.6 | The amount of joy I had tweeting at the Steve Dangle podcast crew, making the Red Sabres dig with the Detroit Red Wings |
| 0:40.2 | at the top of the Atlantic and the Toronto Maple Leafs at the bottom of the Atlantic. |
| 0:45.2 | I actually almost tweeted that at like 2.30 in the morning, whenever that game ended Eastern |
| 0:49.9 | time and then I was like, no, no, I need them to see this. |
| 0:53.6 | And I scheduled myself a reminder to send |
| 0:57.0 | it out the next morning. And I got more than a few replies saying, like, it's still early, |
| 1:02.1 | don't jinx it. Like, they're not going to end up there in the end, blah, blah, blah. And I was like, |
| 1:05.4 | you don't need to tell me how far a Red Wing season can fall. but if there are friends you know this is all friendly |
| 1:15.1 | banter if they're going to call the red wings the red sabers in the season preview you know i'm |
| 1:23.7 | screenshoting that standings page 500 times sitting it as my wallpaper and putting it in every picture frame in my house |
| 1:30.8 | the moment I have the ability to do so. |
| 1:34.1 | There's no jinx involved, folks. |
| 1:35.8 | It's been 10 years of this. |
| 1:37.2 | If they're bad, they're going to be bad. |
| 1:39.6 | If things are going to go crazy, |
| 1:40.7 | we're going to talk later about the way the Atlantic is positioned. |
| 1:42.8 | Like, certainly these standings are not locked in. But that one was fun. That was a fun one to do. You got to enjoy it in the brief windows you can. I like to strat there, Brad. You just play cool. Yeah. It's, it's fine for now. Enjoy it. Well, that was an insane game that we all watched. I don't think anyone could have predicted that ending. |
| 2:06.7 | Really? Couldn't have predicted it. Well, and obviously I'm talking about the Red Wings coming back to life against the LA Kings when everyone thought it was over and overtime. |
| 2:15.7 | The internet, the Red Wings internet was hilarious for about 15 minutes because half the |
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