Kane's Future, Forward Depth, and Stanley Cup Final Recap - June 18th, 2025
Winged Wheel Podcast - A Detroit Red Wings Podcast
Winged Wheel Podcast
5 • 869 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
The Stanley Cup has been awarded (not to Corey Perry - again), and the NHL offseason has officially begun.
Tune in as we open by discussing Patrick Kane's future with the Detroit Red Wings, Kane and Steve Yzerman both expressing mutual interest in Showtime continuing in Hockeytown, Toronto Maple Leafs fans setting themselves up for disappointment hoping he's a Mitch Marner replacement, how Kane fits with Alex DeBrincat, Marco Kasper, Dylan Larkin, and Lucas Raymond, & more (4:15). After that, we discuss potential depth forward targets for Steve Yzerman, including former Detroit Red Wings like Anthony Mantha, Andreas Athanasiou, Pius Suter, Robby Fabbri, & more to add to Todd McLellan's squad (16:15).
Next, our analysis of the Stanley Cup Finals as the Florida Panthers made seemingly easy work of Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, and the Edmonton Oilers. Do the Oilers need to get a goalie? How can the league copy Paul Maurice's squad when they have guys like Barkov, (Conn Smythe winning) Sam Bennett, Marchand, Tkachuk, and Bobrovsky? (36:25)
Finally, NHL news including Troy Terry maybe being available from the Anaheim Ducks (alongside John Gibson?), upcoming CBA news (56:10), and our 2025 NHL Draft Prospect Profile as we revisit Jackson Smith (1:01:15) before we take your questions and comments in our Overtime segment (1:10:50) - 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, Ryan Hanna, Brad Criscoe, and Evan Lopsinger. |
| 0:27.6 | You know, I was pretty annoyed at the Oilers for just letting the same exact script happen again in game six and i was like you know florida deserves |
| 0:43.4 | this such a good team they looked relentless inevitable even if the oilers were playing well you're |
| 0:50.0 | like florida breaks through at the exact moment they needed to It's a bummer we don't get game seven. |
| 0:56.2 | And I was like, you did nothing to flip the script. |
| 0:58.7 | You did nothing to bring out your best, which McDavid and Drys title kept saying, |
| 1:03.5 | we haven't seen yet. |
| 1:05.0 | But then I remembered Cory Perry has now lost five of the last six Stanley Cup finals, and that's just beautiful to me. |
| 1:15.1 | There are silver linings to everything. |
| 1:19.6 | What do you do? |
| 1:21.6 | There are players who go their entire lives without making like two Stanley Cup finals. |
| 1:27.2 | This dude is a God- tier Stanley Cup final team Hunter. |
| 1:32.4 | Like just out there picking the exact best loser to go join. |
| 1:40.0 | He can't be that good because he didn't realize that he had forward Jeff Skinner on his team this year. |
| 1:45.7 | Was forward Jeff Skinner the issue or the goalie Skinner the issue? |
| 1:49.6 | Why not both? |
| 1:51.0 | It's definitely both. |
| 1:53.1 | The year, I'm pretty sure the year that, like the sixth year in there, he lost the Leafs. |
| 1:59.6 | Was that their first playoff series win in like 15 years, too? |
| 2:04.7 | Must have been something like that. |
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