RED WINGS CATASTROPHE - Detroit Collapses, Loses Copp (and Larkin) - Mar. 11th, 2026
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🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
This Detroit Red Wings podcast breaks down the catastrophic Panthers collapse & Andrew Copp injury that sent shockwaves through Hockeytown. Detroit Red Wings news and analysis covers the blown lead, roster chaos, and plummeting playoff odds after the season's most devastating loss.
(00:00) - Red Wings Catastrophe Intro
The ultimate prank by the hockey gods as Detroit's season takes its darkest turn yet. Raw emotion and disbelief after Carter Verhaeghe's goal with 14 seconds left caps off a worst-case night for Todd McLellan's squad.
(06:20) - Panthers Loss Breakdown & Andrew Copp Injury Devastation
Up by one with 91 seconds left, everything unravels in Florida. Marco Kasper and Emmett Finnie show promise, but the Red Wings find new ways to break hearts. Despite looking decent without Dylan Larkin (and later in the game, Andrew Copp as well), Detroit's late breakdowns cost them dearly. Timing couldn't be worse as Copp goes down, leaving massive holes in Detroit's lineup. What can Lucas Raymond, Alex DeBrincat, Patrick Kane, Moritz Seider, and Simon Edvinsson do to carry the team forward?
(26:15) - New Jersey Win Review
Before the nightmare, Detroit won a huge game where John Gibson and Cam Talbot combined for a shutout, Dominik Shine scored his 1st NHL goal, & Seider & JVR led the way. Michael Brandsegg-Nygard also had a big physical impact in his return.
(36:25) - John Leonard, Eduards Tralmaks, and Sheldon Dries Recalled
What can the Grand Rapids Griffins recruits do in relief? Will Nate Danielson or Amadeus Lombardi come up later? How can Detroit's existing depth show their worth via Rasmussen or Compher?
(53:40) - NHL News & Playoff Race Nightmare Update
Buffalo & Tampa Bay play an all-timer as Dahlin enrages Hagel in a wild game. Also, every desirable outcome went the opposite way around the league. Boston, Buffalo, Montreal, and Ottawa keep surging as Detroit's path narrows.
(1:06:35) - Overtime Mailbag
Your questions on the bleak outlook, playoff odds, and what the injuries means for Detroit's future.
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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. |
| 0:28.6 | Covering this team for 11 plus years now, it sucks to say, but there has been a little bit of, |
| 0:36.4 | not the joy stripped out of it, but you know, like the raw emotion that comes with a lot of situations as you're watching the team, it's not that I don't feel it. But let's say the score a big goal or something big happens in a game, you know, for or against Detroit and most of the last decade plus has been against Detroit. I'm like processing that as a fan internally, but then there's the whole, |
| 0:55.5 | you know, |
| 0:55.9 | response. |
| 0:56.5 | There's the content, |
| 0:57.6 | you know, |
| 0:57.8 | the coverage of the, been against Detroit. I'm processing that as a fan internally, but then there's the whole, you know, |
| 0:55.9 | response. |
| 0:56.5 | There's the content, you know, the coverage of the game, blah, blah, blah. |
| 0:59.8 | So very rarely does something happen where I just don't do any of that and I just sit |
| 1:04.9 | there and react as a fan. |
| 1:07.5 | Last night when Carter Verheagie scored with 14 seconds left to cap off what is easily the worst night of the Red Wing season, I just sat there and stared at my TV for like 30 seconds. |
| 1:22.2 | Mel was talking to me, but like my ears started ringing like, you know, in movies where it just like drowns out. |
| 1:27.5 | You don't hear anything else. |
| 1:28.5 | I don't know your tinnitus came back. Oh, yeah, came back. It's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, picking up his helmet. They're like, we're going to get off the beach. And I was like, ride, you got to get off the couch. I'm sitting there typing gun into Amazon. Man. |
| 1:45.2 | So two things I want to branch off what you said. |
| 1:48.3 | First one. |
| 1:49.8 | Worst game of the season so far. |
| 1:53.8 | I don't know that you can hurt me anymore, man. |
| 1:55.7 | I think this is like as low as it gets. |
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