Red Wings Shake-up and Roster Needs ft. Max Bultman - Apr. 27th, 2025
Winged Wheel Podcast - A Detroit Red Wings Podcast
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🗓️ 28 April 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
The Detroit Red Wings offseason changes have already begun, with more potentially on the way.
Tune in as we're joined by Max Bultman of The Athletic Detroit (and Winged Wheel Podcast contributor) on this episode, opening by discussing the report that Todd McLellan, Steve Yzerman, and the Red Wings have moved on from goaltending coach Alex Westlund, and how this relates to Hockeytown's issues in net over the years: can new coaching help, or is the rotating group of Cam Talbot, Petr Mrazek, Alex Lyon, and others to blame? How does this affect Sebastian Cossa coming up (with Trey Augustine a ways away) (3:40)?
Next, Max offers his thoughts on Steve Yzerman's biggest holes and offseason tasks to help the Red Wings roster: what support does Detroit need for Dylan Larkin, Patrick Kane, Lucas Raymond, Alex DeBrincat, and Marco Kasper at forward - like Mitch Marner or Nikolaj Ehlers? Do they need to prioritize a defenseman to help Moritz Seider and Simon Edvinsson - like Gavrikov? Can Nate Danielson, Carter Mazur, Axel Sandin Pellikka, Michael Brandsegg-Nygard, or others be the answer (9:35)?
After that, a comprehensive NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs update, including Tom Wilson and Josh Anderson in a lively bench brawl between Washington and Montreal, the Leafs dominating Tkachuk's Senators, the Lightning and Panthers trading majors (and Cooper and Maurice exchanging banter) in the Battle of Florida, Connor Hellebuyck collapsing for the Winnipeg Jets, TNT not calling games in person, & plenty more (29:25).
We then get into our 2025 NHL Draft Prospect Profile on Cameron Reid: can the Kitchener Rangers defenseman be of interest for the Red Wings, or is someone like Aitcheson or Smith for attractive for Steve Yzerman and Detroit, who will want more size (1:02:45)?
All of that and plenty more before we take your questions and comments in our Overtime segment (1:12:20) - 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. |
| 0:19.2 | Here are your hosts, Brian Hanna, Brad Criscoe, and Evan Lopsinger. |
| 0:28.6 | Just point of order before we get started, like on the Winged Wheel podcast, do you guys hit guys who don't have pox? |
| 0:38.3 | Everyone else is making their stance known, so I just wanted to get you on the record. |
| 0:41.9 | We don't have an HR department, so you can hit whoever you want around here. |
| 0:46.6 | Our HR department is actually Evan, and that was his official policy. |
| 0:50.3 | So the memo is now circulating, hit who you want. The puck is irrelevant. I mean, |
| 0:55.1 | that's pretty similar to George Perros, the player safety, right? That's right. We just want to see the |
| 1:00.3 | boys play, put the whistles away. People didn't come here to see the ref show. We don't want to be like |
| 1:03.8 | that umpire getting mad at the LSU player for Pimp and his game winning his walk off home run like no no one wants to see that this is good someone i i tweeted |
| 1:13.8 | something about the fight the washington montreal fight like wilson and anderson in the bench and i was |
| 1:19.7 | like i'm such a sucker for this man and people are like wow you really have become evan and i |
| 1:25.2 | want to put out a correction i haven haven't become Evan. We have all |
| 1:28.8 | become Evan. This is just his influence. He's like Hydra. Yeah, who was watching that |
| 1:33.8 | scrap in the bench, not having a good time? First, I influenced you with golf and now it's the |
| 1:41.2 | violence. Yeah, that's right. There was one guy watching it not having a good time. |
| 1:46.0 | It was the guy who sat in front of me at the Tigers game on Saturday, |
| 1:49.2 | and I heard him tell everyone in his group how much he didn't like it because he was a Habs fan. |
| 1:55.8 | No. |
| 1:57.0 | I mean, maybe we'd feel differently if it was the Red Wings in the playoffs, |
| 1:59.8 | but I just feel like you have to at that point. |
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