Free Agent Rundown and Eklund: Draft Steal? ft. Max Bultman - May 25th, 2025
Winged Wheel Podcast - A Detroit Red Wings Podcast
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5 • 869 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
NHL free agency is heating up before it even begins, and Max Bultman joins us once again on this remote episode to break it all down.
Tune in as we discuss Steve Yzerman and the Detroit Red Wings' potential free agency targets to fill the holes around Dylan Larkin, Lucas Raymond, Alex DeBrincat, Moritz Seider, Simon Edvinsson, Patrick Kane, Marco Kasper and others: would you rather overpay Mitch Marner or Sam Bennett? Could Aaron Ekblad be the answer? Nikolaj Ehlers, Brad Marchand, Brock Boeser, or Brock Nelson? Trade for a Byram or Marchment? (3:35) Also, updates on the Toledo Walleye, Muskegon Lumberjacks, and Dylan and Kenzie Larkin welcoming their first child into the world! (37:20)
Next, the IIHF World Championships provide unexpected cinema as Denmark upsets Crosby, MacKinnon, and Team Canada, Tage Thompson give USA their first gold medal in 92 years, and the Swiss are slept on (39:35) before we jump into our Stanley Cup Playoffs update: Matthew Tkachuk and the Florida Panthers making easy work of Svechnikov and the Hurricanes, and Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, and the Edmonton Oilers taking charge vs. Rantanen and the Stars (44:20). After some quick NHL news involving former Detroit Red Wings great Brendan Shanahan, we jump into our 2025 NHL Draft Prospect Profile on Jack Nesbitt, and then discuss whether Victor Eklund could be poised to fall for Steve Yzerman to add to the pipeline that already includes Michael Brandsegg-Nygard, Nate Danielson, and more (56:20).
All of that & lots more before we take your questions and comments in our Overtime segment (1:08:15) - 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. |
| 0:28.6 | Bold prediction. This episode is going to be Evan's equivalent of Tarek Scoubles, complete game |
| 0:37.1 | shutout Maddox with 13 |
| 0:39.4 | strikeouts. No pressure. |
| 0:41.7 | What's the podcast equivalent of throwing absolute gas 103 to close out the episode? |
| 0:47.7 | Just no one can refute any of your points. |
| 0:50.2 | Every time you talk, we're all just in stunned silence because we can't disagree with any of it. |
| 0:55.0 | Evan's just going to do a 10-minute monologue about all the reasons the Detroit Red Wings should give Sam Bennett $10 million. |
| 1:01.4 | He's just going to rattle off the entire free agency and like hit every single contract bar for bar predicted now. |
| 1:08.8 | Like full Lobster Damas months in in advance i will try my best |
| 1:14.8 | really inspiring confidence oh yeah for the people out there pal i take back my prediction |
| 1:24.8 | he doesn't have it. It might be. |
| 1:33.7 | I only recognized a couple words from your analogy anyways, so it was going to be very difficult for me to hit that. |
| 1:35.8 | There's three runners on base, two runs already scored or not even one out in the first inning. |
| 1:40.7 | This is going devastating. |
| 1:43.1 | All right, folks, as you've been able to tell, fresh off of watching, Terrick Scouble pitch his first ever complete game for the Tigers and then rushing back home to record. We have Max Bultman of the Asotic Detroit in for this episode of the Wingwheel podcast. We're here to talk to about all things Detroit Reddings hockey, the world of the NHL, debating which contract overpay would be better or worse, if at all, and lots more. |
| 2:05.8 | I'm one of your hosts, Ryan Hanna. |
| 2:07.6 | I'm Brad Crishko. |
| 2:08.9 | I'm Max Boltman. |
| 2:10.5 | And I'm Evan. |
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