NHL TRADE DEADLINE PREVIEW - Yzerman's Red Wings Targets - Mar. 4th, 2026
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🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
It's that time of year. This NHL Trade Deadline edition Detroit Red Wings podcast breaks down Steve Yzerman's strategy & targets, including analysis covers the team's biggest needs and potential targets like Robert Thomas, Jordan Kyrou, and defensemen like Justin Faulk or Dougie Hamilton.
(00:00) - Trade Deadline Preview Intro
Special early recording to cover Friday's 3 p.m. NHL trade deadline and what's coming next for the show.
(03:20) - Red Wings Biggest Priorities
Goals remain the top need - this team ranks 27th in 5-on-5 expected goals and desperately needs a top-line winger and second-line center.
(12:20) - Tyler Myers Trade Rumor & News on Trocheck, Petterson & More
Examining the Canucks defenseman as a potential right-shot option to help shelter Axel Sandin-Pellikka. Also, what we're hearing on players like Vincent Trocheck and Elias Petterson.
(34:15) - Robert Thomas Trade Possibility
Breaking down the Blues center who fits exactly what Detroit needs - a playmaking center with term remaining to go alongside wingers like Alex DeBrincat, Patrick Kane, or Lucas Raymond.
(45:05) - Jordan Kyrou, Justin Faulk, and More Defense Options
Could the Blues winger solve the Red Wings' goal-scoring woes alongside Dylan Larkin and Lucas Raymond? Also, other defensemen available like Dougie Hamilton, Rasmus Ristolainen, or Mackenzie Weegar to go alongside Moritz Seider and Simon Edvinsson. Additionally, analysis on trade targets beyond the typical names like Ryan O'Reilly or Patrick Laine.
(1:08:30) - Final Top Three Targets & Yzerman's Must-Do's
Ranking the most realistic and impactful players Steve Yzerman could acquire before Friday's deadline to bolster Todd McLellan's squad.
(1:12:55) - Overtime Mailbag & Sebastian Cossa News
Listener questions and breaking news on Sebastian Cossa being called up for an injured John Gibson to backup Cam Talbot.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Wingwheel podcast, the number one source for news, analysis, and discussion on the Detroit Red Wings, the NHL, and all things hockey. |
| 0:19.2 | Here are your hosts, Brian Hanna, Brad Criscoe, and Evan Lopsinger. |
| 0:28.6 | Yeah, it's always a good time preparing for the big episodes, trade deadline preview. |
| 0:33.1 | We're like, all right, you know, not that we'd never take an episode anything, but, you know, as prepared |
| 0:37.9 | as possible, but we came into this, like make sure that we're on the ball, efficient with our |
| 0:44.6 | recording, we know our plan of attack, try to be as structured as possible, walk upstairs |
| 0:50.4 | to the studio, I have dipped both of my sweater strings into my coffee. |
| 0:54.3 | So that's about the start we have to this morning. |
| 0:56.5 | Yeah, and our prepping was very on topic today. |
| 1:00.3 | Oh, absolutely. |
| 1:01.3 | Yeah, our, I mean, it would be weird if we did anything different than this. |
| 1:07.1 | If we actually went over show notes for the 20 minutes before we start recording, |
| 1:12.4 | I think it would actually throw us off. Yes. We'd get nervous. We'd be too prepared. |
| 1:17.1 | You know, that's not how we'd roll. No, structure? Never heard of her. All right, folks, |
| 1:22.7 | the disclaimer that always comes with these episodes. This is the 2026 NHL trade deadline preview episode of the |
| 1:28.7 | Wingreel podcast. What you're about to hear is likely to be at a date by the time you hear it. |
| 1:33.7 | So take it with a grain of salts. A little asterisk for you, but nevertheless, we are here |
| 1:39.0 | recording at a special early time to make sure that this is as topical as possible for you as we head into Friday's trade deadline. So without further ado, welcome to the Wing to Wheel podcast. Here to talk to you about all things, Detroit Red Wing's trade deadline, the rest of the NHL's trade deadline strategy, and the world of hockey and lots more. I'm one of your hosts, Ryan Hanna. I'm Brad Criscoe. And I'm Evan. On episode of the Wingwheel podcast. As you've guessed, the trade deadline. Everything to do with it's going to be a little bit of a different feel for the show, less about the game recaps and, you know, the moment and time things for the Red Wings and more just about what we are going to do heading into the trade deadline and what Steve Isamman and the Red Wings are going to do heading into that Friday deadline. |
| 2:20.2 | We're also going to take a league-wide lens into things as well and whatever else we get into before overtime. |
| 2:26.5 | Very quickly, Winged Wheel Podcast Tonight, the LCA, that's Saturday, March 21st. |
| 2:30.5 | That is approaching very quickly here. |
| 2:32.5 | That is a partnered event where us, the Wingreel podcast and the Detroit Red Wings team up to host a live show at the game before the Red Wings v. Bruins game at Little Searser's Arena. So Wingwheel Podcast.com slash Red Wings to get your tickets. They get you access not just into the Red Wings v. Bruins game at a discounted rate. You also get access to that |
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