COMEBACK CHAOS & Early Season Analysis ft. Prashanth Iyer - Oct. 26th, 2025
Winged Wheel Podcast - A Detroit Red Wings Podcast
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🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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WHAT A COMEBACK IN HOCKEYTOWN! The Detroit Red Wings have been nothing short of a rollercoaster.
Tune in as we start by analyzing the terrible 7-2 loss by the Red Wings on Long Island to Matthew Schaefer and the Islanders, including tough games from Rasmussen, Edvinsson, Johansson, and plenty more from Todd McLellan's squad, the Cizikas cross-check, Larkin & Finnie continuing to mesh, Berggren & Compher doing what they could, & more as Detroit struggles without Patrick Kane & with Lucas Raymond still hurt (4:50). Next, the chaotic comeback win over Binnington and the St. Louis Blues in Hockeytown, including Berggren & Compher providing the pulse, McLellan's pivotal timeout, Finnie's continued surge and Larkin's stolen assist, Alex DeBrincat breaking his goal drought, Simon Edvinsson redeeming himself, Moritz Seider and Simon Edvinsson playing together as Sandin-Pellikka is moved around, Brandsegg-Nygard not playing much, a long road trip ahead, & more (17:15).
We're then joined by Prashanth Iyer, host of Expected by Whom & resident analytics expert to talk Detroit Red Wings by the numbers, what the special teams say about Yzerman's team's future, how Emmitt Finnie & Co. have changed the game, playoff hopes, Larkin's surge, & more (33:00).
After that, Red Wings prospect notes including Nate Danielson returning to the ice for the Grand Rapids Griffins, Sebastian Cossa's shutout win, Mazur's points racking up, Brent Solomon tearing up the USHL, Buchelnikov in Russia, & more (59:20), before we jump into some NHL notes & take your questions and comments in our Overtime segment (1:08:25) - enjoy!
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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, Ryan Hanna, Brad Criscoe, and Evan Lopsinger. |
| 0:27.6 | Even though the morning episodes used to be Evan's witching hour, Brad, I think something has changed fundamentally since Sullivan came around. There's been a |
| 0:38.5 | paradigm shift. Last episode after it posted, the comments started to flow in. And then I saw a few |
| 0:44.5 | where it was like, is Evan asleep? Did Evan doze off? Evan's eyes are actually closed at |
| 0:52.2 | like this timestamp. And I was like, oh my God, no. |
| 0:54.6 | There's no way Evan fell asleep during this episode and neither was clocked it. |
| 0:59.2 | Now, I went back and looked and I can confirm two things. |
| 1:01.4 | One, he was not actually asleep and two, I do think he was speaking to us with his eyes intentionally closed, trying to get rest. This is a new father. Again, |
| 1:13.7 | for those of you who don't know, Evan and his wife, Catherine, just brought home their son, Sullivan. |
| 1:19.8 | And the first, you know, what was it? 70 days he was in hospital because he came 10 weeks early. |
| 1:25.2 | Yep. And so you guys are just now experiencing life with a newborn at home for the first time. |
| 1:31.1 | And Evans, Evan's getting his ass kicked, for sure. |
| 1:33.9 | As a household that was routinely in bed around 10 p.m., our sleep habits have changed dramatically. |
| 1:42.1 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:42.6 | You guys are, you guys are like the platonic ideal of when to get to bed. |
| 1:47.1 | Mel and I aspire to be Evan and Catherine, like in bed at 10.30. |
| 1:50.7 | Those days are long gone. |
| 1:52.4 | As evidenced by the fact that you were giving us player analysis with your eyelids touching, man. |
| 1:57.5 | Yeah, I have to be efficient now. |
| 1:59.2 | There's only so much energy I have. Now as the veteran dad on this podcast, I would love to give Evan the like, it gets better speech. It just gets bad in different ways. I've, this is the, I had a three day weekend and I was up before 5.30 twice. |
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