Red Wings Beatdown - Can Detroit Bounce Back? - Nov. 30th, 2025
Winged Wheel Podcast - A Detroit Red Wings Podcast
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🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Detroit, and Michigan, sports are going through a tough time right now, and unfortunately the Detroit Red Wings are at the center of that.
Tune in as we begin by discussing the Red Wings' 6-3 loss to Nikita Kucherov and the Tampa Bay Lightning, including strong play from Michael Rasmussen & J.T. Compher, poor play and turnovers after a Gibson save from Simon Edvinsson & Moritz Seider, Johansson and Bernard-Docker getting beat on defense, and more in a frustrating game for Todd McLellan's squad (3:40).
Next, Detroit's shootout loss to Jeremy Swayman and the Boston Bruins, including Kastelic's mismatch fight where Moritz Seider got dropped, our thoughts on the response from Ben Chiarot but not too many other Red Wings, Dylan Larkin, Lucas Raymond, Patrick Kane, and others contributing offensively, & Detroit being too slow to pick things up in the loss (12:10). After that, Dylan Larkin and Todd McLellan's comments about effort, care, and overthinking the game, and how that's affecting players like Marco Kasper, Patrick Kane, Nate Danielson, Alex DeBrincat, and Emmitt Finnie (25:50).
We then take a look at the NHL & Atlantic Division standings, Steve Yzerman's team's December outlook, and what can be done to maintain standing in the tight playoff race - can Cam Talbot and John Gibson start providing more support in net? (39:10)
After that, an update on the Detroit Red Wings prospect pipeline, including notes on Sebastian Cossa (will Yzerman call him up at some point?), Trey Augustine, Max Plante, Carter Bear, Jesse Kiiskinen, & more Hockeytown hopefuls (53:45).
All of that & lots more before we take your questions and comments in our Overtime segment (56:50) - 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 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. |
| 0:28.5 | The Lions on Thanksgiving, Michigan against Ohio State, |
| 0:33.2 | and the Red Wings losing three times. |
| 0:37.0 | I can't believe there's a point this year where when the Red Wings were going well and the Pistons |
| 0:41.4 | were off to an insanely hot start and I know the Tiger season ended in a pretty disappointing way, |
| 0:48.5 | but it was still kind of like, okay, they did really well last season and the Lions hadn't |
| 0:53.4 | completely collapsed. |
| 0:55.8 | Oh, and then the saving grace for the Lions was supposed to come out of retirement. |
| 1:01.0 | Then, oh, nope, grade three tear in his hamstring. |
| 1:04.5 | Just kidding. |
| 1:07.4 | I was at any point optimistic about Detroit sports and Michigan sports this year. |
| 1:12.8 | How? |
| 1:13.5 | How? |
| 1:14.2 | Best thing that happened this week was the gravy boat. |
| 1:17.2 | Yeah, that's not even particularly close either. |
| 1:19.9 | No. |
| 1:20.7 | Somehow the grade three tear in the hamstring was the worst part. |
| 1:23.8 | It's the hope that gets you. |
| 1:25.5 | It really is. |
| 1:26.4 | And I didn't think that was a way where you could be let down. |
| 1:31.2 | Like I didn't think the hockey gods or the football gods did that kind of stuff. |
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