Gavrikov, Byram, and Yzerman's Defense Targets - May 21st, 2025
Winged Wheel Podcast - A Detroit Red Wings Podcast
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🗓️ 21 May 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
The Detroit Red Wings need help scoring, but we all know that Moritz Seider, Simon Edvinsson, and the Red Wings blue line desperately needs help defending as well.
Tune in as we discuss some key candidates for Steve Yzerman to target in free agency or trade to help Detroit's defense alongside Seider, Edvinsson, Johansson, Chiarot & Co., including the Los Angeles Kings' Vladislav Gavrikov and the Buffalo Sabres' Bowen Byram - are they worth targeting over a Mitch Marner, Sam Bennett, or other forwards to help Dylan Larkin, Lucas Raymond, Alex DeBrincat, & the rest of Hockeytown's offense? What would they cost and how does the rising salary cap benefit Steve Yzerman and the Red Wings? (5:05)
After that, an update on Marco Kasper, Lucas Raymond, Michael Brandsegg-Nygard, and the rest of the Detroit Red Wings at the IIHF World Championships (36:05) before jumping into NHL news, including a breakdown of the Leafs imploding as usual against Brad Marchand and the Panthers, thoughts on Matthews, Marner, Knies, and Tavares, as well as Stanley Cup Playoffs Conference Finals predictions as McDavid and the Oilers take on Rantanen and the Stars in the West, and Bobrovsky and the Panthers take on Svechnikov and the Hurricanes in the East (40:15).
Finally, our 2025 NHL Draft Prospect Profile on Lynden Lakovic and whether he reminds Red Wings fans of Michael Rasmussen or Anthony Mantha (1:02:45).
All of that & lots more before we take your questions and comments in our Overtime segment (1:12:25) - 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 | We're joking that, like, however we're going to open multiple episodes in a row with jokes about the Leafs |
| 0:36.6 | and the annual tradition of losing |
| 0:40.5 | in the most painful way possible. |
| 0:41.9 | Like we just did this and I think we did it |
| 0:43.9 | even before that last episode. |
| 0:47.3 | And yet we'd be remiss and not opening |
| 0:49.4 | with more about that now. |
| 0:51.4 | Some traditions just need to be paid the attention they deserve. Yeah, we don't |
| 0:58.9 | really have a choice in the hockey world. I think we actually predicted it. Someone pointed it out. |
| 1:05.3 | We have accidentally predicted how the last three games of that series would go. Like we talked |
| 1:10.3 | about how it would be a blowout in game five. And then one of us in the last three games of that series would go. Like we talked about how it would be a blowout in game five. |
| 1:12.8 | And then one of us in the last couple episodes apparently said, |
| 1:16.6 | they're going to go win game six and then lose like six one or something in game seven. |
| 1:21.2 | Called it to a T. |
| 1:22.3 | We're well versed in this. |
| 1:24.1 | We called that correctly as well as just about every person who's watched north of three hockey games in the last four years. |
| 1:35.5 | The jerseys on the ice during play, I was like, oh my God, man. |
| 1:41.6 | Like sailing in the air, like it was the arrows in 300 blotting out the sun |
| 1:46.8 | there was a still image of a leaf's fan in the front row just giving the most aggressive middle finger |
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