GIBSON TRADE, NHL DRAFT RECAP, AND FREE AGENCY PREVIEW - June 28th, 2025
Winged Wheel Podcast - A Detroit Red Wings Podcast
Winged Wheel Podcast
4.9 • 968 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2025
⏱️ 105 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
JOHN GIBSON IS A DETROIT RED WING - and so is Carter Bear!
Tune into this mega-episode as we start by recapping Steve Yzerman's huge trade with the Anaheim Ducks, sending Petr Mrazek and draft picks in exchange for goaltender John Gibson - is this Hockeytown's starting goalie for the next 2 seasons? How does he slot in with Talbot, how does this affect Sebastian Cossa and Trey Augustine, trade value analysis, what sources are saying about the negotiations with Verbeek, and more (4:05).
Next, our 2025 NHL Draft recap including a breakdown of all Detroit Red Wings picks, their comparables, projections, & more: Carter Bear (18:35), Eddie Genborg (34:20), Michal Pradal (42:40), Brent Solomon (45:25), Michal Svrcek (48:15), Nikita Tyurin (52:40), Will Murphy (55:05), and Grayden Robertson-Palmer (58:35). To wrap up draft talk, our final draft grades and analysis on Steve Yzerman, Hakan Andersson, and Kris Draper's work for Hockeytown's pipeline (1:00:40).
After that, news from Steve Yzerman on Patrick Kane, Anton Johansson, Justin Holl, Vladimir Tarasenko, & more, including our 2025 NHL Free Agency preview: will Ehlers, Marchand, Marner, Ekblad, or other big name free agents come to the Detroit Red Wings? Does Steve Yzerman have to rely on trades to bring in a Robertson, Barbashev, or someone else instead? Also, quick notes on the Detroit Red Wings Centennial logo, the HOCKEYTOWN ice wordmark, and a new CBA (1:10:15).
All of that & plenty more before we take your questions and comments in our Overtime segment (1:31:00) - enjoy!
Head over to wingedwheelpodcast.com to find all the ways to listen, how to support the show, and so much more!
Go to KoffeeKult.com and use code WWP for 15% off your order! #ad
Support the Jamie Daniels Foundation through Wings Money on the Board: https://www.wingedwheelpodcast.com/wingsmotb
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 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 | This could be the delirium from the lack of sleep, the five and a half hours of |
| 0:36.1 | live streaming yesterday, |
| 0:45.1 | the insanely drawn out cartoonish NHL presentation for the first round of the draft. |
| 0:50.5 | But when Detroit's second round pick was interviewed, |
| 0:56.1 | and they interviewed him after they had drafted a goalie in a third round. And they were talking to Eddie Genberg. |
| 0:58.5 | And he said, I was a goalie up until I was 12. |
| 1:00.4 | I was like, even their forwards are goalies. |
| 1:02.2 | Everything in this organization is goalies. |
| 1:06.9 | Goalies get traded for a goalie. |
| 1:08.4 | We drafted a goalie. |
| 1:09.6 | Pull the mask off the forward goalie. |
| 1:14.6 | It's like... |
| 1:15.4 | The draft took so long, Eddie's already in year two of three of his ZLC. |
| 1:19.8 | I wish there was any... |
| 1:21.6 | Like, that joke was made 55,000 times and every one of them was funny and sad. |
| 1:28.9 | I want the next draft to be somewhere where like agreed upon combat between two people |
| 1:34.9 | is legal. |
| 1:36.3 | And I just want to find whoever's decision it was to do, what was it, three interviews |
| 1:41.6 | for every pick, one of them in a weird Zoom cage with the |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Winged Wheel Podcast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Winged Wheel Podcast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.