State of the Red Wings - Jan. 8th, 2023

Winged Wheel Podcast - A Detroit Red Wings Podcast

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5 • 869 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

2023 is off to a tough start for the Detroit Red Wings, and Steve Yzerman, Derek Lalonde & Co. have some interesting decisions to make over the rest of the season.

Tune in as we open by recapping Detroit's two losses to Florida & Toronto, including bad special teams play & thoughts on what Alex Tanguay can do, Robby Fabbri's strong return, Jake Walman's homecoming goal against the Leaf, Hellberg holding his own, & more (4:40).

Next, our "State of the Red Wings" address. Is the "Yzerplan" on track? Did Steve Yzerman do the right thing signing the likes of Ben Chiarot, Andrew Copp, & others? What's to come of Dylan Larkin & Tyler Bertuzzi? How are Lucas Raymond, Moritz Seider, & the overall rebuild progressing? Should Detroit tank for Connor Bedard, or are the playoffs still a possibility? All of that & LOTS more in our overview of where Hockeytown is at with the Trade Deadline not far away (13:20).

Also - how much of a priority is it to re-sign Jake Walman? Is he part of Detroit's long-term future? Does signing affect him affect Olli Maatta, Simon Edvinsson, Albert Johansson, or others (39:05)? Finally, Tyler Bertuzzi (and/or Filip Zadina) is poised to return, with Elmer Soderblom being assigned to the AHL (50:00) & what that means for Bertuzzi & Soderblom, plus Alex Nedeljkovic & Jakub Vrana's performance in Grand Rapids (53:25). To close, a recap of Connor Bedard and Team Canada's World Juniors gold medal, USA's bronze medal, Czechia's fantastic performance, & a potential tournament in Ann Arbor (54:40) - all of that & lots more - tune in & enjoy!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the winged wheel podcast. Here to talk all things hockey are your hosts Brad
0:10.8	Crisco, Ryan Hanna, and Evan Lopsinger.
0:13.4	If I seem grumpy today, it's because I know full well how terrible of an idea it is to have
0:26.0	your happiness on any single given day of your life be based on Baker Mayfield's
0:30.6	performance in a football game. I know what's coming. The game is being
0:36.1	played right now as we record and just bear with me. The last tweet I saw
0:41.9	before I closed my phone and we started recording was just
0:47.0	Jay Lynn Ramsey, what a tackle, I think it was Detroit moments that was tweeting that.
0:51.0	So something good just happened but everything that happens
0:55.6	after that tweet I do not know and it probably won't be good. I've been hurt
1:00.3	before. Is this the final week of the regular season? It's the final week and the
1:04.8	lions need the rams to beat the Seahawks and then the lions need to beat the
1:09.7	Packers in at Lambo. That doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility? No, it's certainly not, but you know what it's perfectly in the realm of? Detroit Lions football. That's right, Evan. I'm learning. Given Lyons, fans hope and just taking it away in a
1:25.7	brand new creative, painful way. Anyhow, let's talk about other Detroit sports.
1:34.2	We're at that point of the season where people are starting to use the T word a lot.
1:39.4	The timing of the world juniors didn't help.
1:41.1	No, it certainly didn't. But we're geared up, we're ready to go.
1:45.4	Evan actually drank a caffeinated bubbly, I mean, caffeinated carbonated beverage, no free ads.
1:50.3	That's right. Yeah, I did. So it'd be interesting to see when that kicks in. Maybe it won't at all. Maybe it will momentarily.
1:56.7	Your body, I hope you've marked down on your ID card that you want to donate your body to science,
2:01.6	because I'm afraid and so curious about
2:03.8	what they'll find going on in there. I have no idea. Certainly the brain is just
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