Is Detroit a Playoff Team? - July 13th, 2025
Winged Wheel Podcast - A Detroit Red Wings Podcast
Winged Wheel Podcast
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🗓️ 13 July 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Has Steve Yzerman done enough to help the Detroit Red Wings become a Stanley Cup playoff team?
Tune in as we discuss what would need to happen for the Red Wings to contend with the likes of Montreal and Ottawa for a wild card spot, starting with the goalies in John Gibson, Cam Talbot, and Sebastian Cossa (4:00), before going over how Moritz Seider, Simon Edvinsson, Albert Johansson, Jacob Bernard-Docker, Erik Gustafsson, Ben Chiarot (and even an unlikely Axel Sandin Pellikka) would help the defense improve (14:15).
After that, the forwards including another Marco Kasper season, Lucas Raymond's ceiling, Dylan Larkin alongside Alex DeBrincat, Andrew Copp, Patrick Kane, Jonatan Berggren and Elmer Soderblom, potentially one of Nate Danielson or Carter Mazur to join the top 6, J.T. Compher improving, the Todd McLellan effect in Hockeytown, what Yzerman should do at the trade deadline (Karlsson, Rust, or Rakell?), and more (31:40).
Next, NHL news in a shockingly decentralized NHL Draft continuing next season and how Gary Bettman & Co. should improve it (1:01:50) before we take your questions and comments in our Overtime segment (1:12:40) - enjoy!
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Max's Article: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6483799/2025/07/10/red-wings-nhl-playoffs-prospects-kasper-edvinsson/
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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, Ryan Hanna, Brad Criscoe, and Evan Lopsinger. |
| 0:27.6 | We need a, we honestly need a warning light or something to put in the studio for when we're recording this early in the morning. |
| 0:36.6 | Because like I mentioned last episode with Max that was remote, the episode the studio for when we're recording this early in the morning. |
| 0:41.2 | Because, like I mentioned, last episode with Max, it was remote. |
| 0:46.9 | The episode prior, we also did early morning, and the listeners heard and saw it immediately. |
| 0:49.4 | We didn't do our pillow check, but the pillow was good. |
| 0:51.0 | The pillow is the right side up today. |
| 0:53.6 | The pillow could be the warning when it's upside down. |
| 0:54.3 | We are in distress. Yeah, it's a silent distress signal. I've been Morse coding torture with my eyes for 10 years. |
| 1:01.1 | No one's picked up. We have like three people who know Morse code who watch. They just don't care about you. |
| 1:06.6 | They don't watch on YouTube. You can't even speak English. You can speak Morse code? |
| 1:10.3 | No. |
| 1:17.6 | Whenever we get into the summer, what we do in the Wing Wheel podcast is our offseason, |
| 1:18.9 | we still record once a week. |
| 1:20.7 | Like we're here with year round. |
| 1:26.7 | But we do go down to one a week from the two a week at some point. |
| 1:28.6 | We don't have like a preset date because of the news is the news, right? And we're like, well, when do we do it? It always just kind of comes to us. |
| 1:34.6 | Yeah, we think it's there. When we were looking for ideas and talking about Ryan Reeves getting |
| 1:40.9 | traded was the core concept. That's when you know it's right around the corner. |
| 1:46.7 | Yeah. When Ryan Reeves isn't a bonus overtime conversation and you're actually talking about |
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