Welcome to The Hockey Writers’ 2023 Offseason Trade Targets series for the Detroit Red Wings. During it, we will be looking at a handful of players from each NHL team who the Red Wings should consider pursuing this summer. In this latest edition of the series, we will be focusing on the Toronto Maple Leafs.
When the ping pong balls bounced out of favor for the Detroit Red Wings in the Connor Bedard sweepstakes, all hope for acquiring a generational talent was not necessarily lost. During this time last year, hockey scouts and analysts would speak the name of Russian superstars, Matvei Michkov in the same breath as Bedard, so
The Detroit Red Wings season is over, and the attention is on the off-season. General Manager (GM) Steve Yzerman is surely no stranger to making big off-season moves. He’s known to pull the trigger on trades and free agents, even moving up/down the draft order. The Detroit Red Wings had a big upgrade in their
The Detroit Red Wings have to be thrilled with the output of their German defender to this point in his career. Moritz Seider has done an impeccable job settling in. Even after a rough second season with the Red Wings, there’s plenty of reason to believe he is rising to stardom. Seider has not missed
A couple of Detroit Red Wings defensemen squared off on the second day of the World Championship. Olli Määttä had an assist to help edge Finland past Moritz Seider’s Germany with a 4-3 victory Saturday at Nokia Arena in Tampere, Finland. The Finns have won eight of the last 10 World Championship matchups against the
Before the Detroit Red Wings 2022-23 season came to an end forward Alex Chiasson started to really get things going in terms of offense in his last-minute chance with the Red Wings. Bob Heyrman suggested that the Red Wings should consider bringing Chiasson back for 2023-24 on a contract extension. The Detroit Red Wings brought
Carter Mazur keeps making the right impressions for the Detroit Red Wings. In an admittedly brief stint this spring with the Grand Rapids Griffins, the prospect from Jackson averaged a point a game. On Friday, in his first game at the World Championship, he set up the tying goal to help propel the U.S. to
Goaltending was one of the least consistent aspects of the Detroit Red Wings 2022-23 season. There would be stretches of three to four games of good goaltending followed by even longer stretches of average to below average. Related: Red Wings’ 3 Missing Pieces To Contend For The Stanley Cup Steve Yzerman has a decision to
It’s official, the Detroit Red Wings will select ninth overall in the 2023 NHL Entry Draft, losing out on the draft lottery once again. The draft lottery took place last Monday night, and Detroit stayed put at ninth overall rather than falling one or two places, which many fans see as a win in itself.
The results of the NHL draft lottery are in. The Detroit Red Wings’ top pick will be ninth overall, marking their seventh-straight top-10 pick since their playoff streak ended in 2017. This will be the first time they hold the ninth pick since they drafted Michael Rasmussen at ninth overall in 2017. Explore everything hockey
The Detroit Red Wings have invested a lot of time into forward Filip Zadina. He was the team’s first-round pick from 2018, selecting the Czech forward with the sixth overall pick. Since then, there has been a lot of hope and faith in what Zadina can bring to the table. After all, the Detroit Red
There is no reason for Semyon Varlamov to re-sign with the New York Islanders this summer. He is now the clear backup to Ilya Sorokin, but the veteran still has lots to give. For the last two seasons, there’s been talk about him being traded, but nothing came of it. Instead, the Islanders kept him
Detroit — The Red Wings still don’t know where their second first-round pick will be in the NHL Entry Draft. They’ll pick either 17th or 18th, depending on how the Florida Panthers’ playoff series against Toronto goes — which, in the large scale of things, isn’t a huge difference. The pick was obtained from Vancouver
The NHL draft lottery is over, the draft isn’t until late June, and it’s been four weeks since the Detroit Red Wings played their last game of the season. Time, then, to turn toward Europe. The annual World Championship is a great consolation event for NHL players who aren’t in the playoffs — a situation the