Detroit's Rookie Wave and Central Division Preview - Sept. 28th, 2025
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🗓️ 29 September 2025
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The race is on for the remaining Detroit Red Wings roster spots, and Steve Yzerman & Todd McLellan are looking at a lot of promising young players vying for the Hockeytown squad.
Tune in as we open by discussing the Appleton - Copp - Rasmussen line, how their chemistry could solidify the rest of the lineup (DeBrincat - Kasper - Kane and even Larkin and Raymond), and whether the penalty kill could benefit (4:00). We also go over Albert Johansson's improvement, what to expect on defense between him and Simon Edvinsson, Moritz Seider, and some potential other combinations including Bernard-Docker and Hamonic. Plus, Nate Danielson, Michael Brandsegg-Nygard, Carter Mazur, Amadeus Lombardi, Emmitt Finnie, and all of the young Red Wings hopefuls competing with the likes of Berggren and Compher for roster spots (plus Cossa in net) (14:05).
After that, our Central Division preview & predictions: Rantanen's Dallas Stars, Makar's Colorado Avalanche, Hellebuyck's Winnipeg Jets, Cooley's Utah Mammoth, Kaprizov's Minnesota Wild, Kyrou's St. Louis Blues, Bedard's Chicago Blackhawks, & Josi's Nashville Predators (34:40).
Finally, NHL news including Mason McTavish's contract and Barkov's season-ending injury (1:06:10) before we take your questions and comments in our Overtime segment (1:11:15) - 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 | I've always really hated those people who are online and just like our contrarians and are negative and hate just for the sake of hating. |
| 0:39.8 | And then I realized I've become that when I saw the Mark Andre Flurry post last night. |
| 0:45.5 | And I'm like, I have this stupid grin on my face as I'm sending the tweet about like, |
| 0:50.0 | this guy's been retiring for like three years. |
| 0:51.9 | Oh, this is his last gain. |
| 0:54.5 | This is his last shootout. |
| 0:55.5 | This is his last, |
| 0:56.2 | but I feel like we've been talking about this forever. And I send that tweet knowing two things. One, I'm being a jerk. Like, I'm just being a dork for the sake of, it's for the love of the game at this point. Someone even replied saying, like, this is how Ryan shows up when there's an opportunity to hate Marc Andre Fleury. |
| 1:12.6 | And the second thing is I knew Evan would see that. at this point. Someone even replied saying, like, this is how Ryan shows up when there's an opportunity |
| 1:11.0 | to hate Mark Andre Fleury. |
| 1:12.6 | And the second thing is I knew Evan would see that and want to fight me. |
| 1:17.0 | You're very lucky that I did see that. |
| 1:19.1 | I've only been chronically online the last little bit because of the Ryder Cup and all the |
| 1:23.0 | drama going on there. |
| 1:25.7 | You are the person who reminds the teacher that we had homework do. |
| 1:29.7 | No. |
| 1:30.4 | Yes. |
| 1:30.9 | No. |
| 1:31.6 | That is exactly what is happening in this scenario. |
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