2025-26 Prospects Thread

[Jason_R]

Don’t tell me he wouldn’t be an upgrade over at least four guys. 

[buddha]

2 hours ago, Jason_R said:

Don’t tell me he wouldn’t be an upgrade over at least four guys. 

i would love that to be true, but he was just here and didnt do squat.

[Shinzaki]

He barely played...you can’t expect rookies to produce when they aren't getting consistent minutes

[slothfacekilla]

 

 

 

 

NDN signed his ELC and is coming to North America

[slothfacekilla]

 

 

[Jason_R]

I see speculation that the influx of players into GR means promotions for next season. What do the tea leaves say?

[slothfacekilla]

It is certainly getting crowded down in Grand Rapids.  I have to imagine some of them will fill spots vacated by pending free agents:

Hamonic (obviously don't need him back)

JVR (faded hard down the stretch after providing some nice depth at first)

Perron (he's old even if I love his attitude)

Kane (I can take or leave him, it is nice to have him on the PP, maybe they re-sign him another year partly in hopes it helps DeBrincat extend)

Talbot (Just bring up Cossa already)

 

Wallinder should be up unless he looks absolutely awful in camp, he has to go through waivers and someone would claim him.  I don't see any other defenders down there making the jump.  Buium's skating seems to still not be NHL level from what I see, I would be shocked if he's ready but I'm often wrong.  Anton Johansson is an interesting wild card but still probably gets an AHL year.

Danielson, MBN, and maybe Lombardi have a chance to make the team I think for the forwards.  Probably not all of them.  The NHL free agent class is absolutely awful so I don't know what the Wings will do with a decent amount of roster spots open.  I wouldn't mind shooting Rasmussen into the sun to make further room too.

[lordstanley]

Junior hockey player killed in a campus shooting in my hometown last night. I have friends with kids who played with him on his former team, Mooretown.

https://nationalpost.com/news/local-news/one-man-dead-in-early-morning-shooting-at-lambton-college-sarnia-police/wcm/f542a641-d897-492d-9a33-ae25f8eb904e

[1984Echoes]

1 hour ago, slothfacekilla said:

It is certainly getting crowded down in Grand Rapids.  I have to imagine some of them will fill spots vacated by pending free agents:

Hamonic (obviously don't need him back)

JVR (faded hard down the stretch after providing some nice depth at first)

Perron (he's old even if I love his attitude)

Kane (I can take or leave him, it is nice to have him on the PP, maybe they re-sign him another year partly in hopes it helps DeBrincat extend)

Talbot (Just bring up Cossa already)

 

Wallinder should be up unless he looks absolutely awful in camp, he has to go through waivers and someone would claim him.  I don't see any other defenders down there making the jump.  Buium's skating seems to still not be NHL level from what I see, I would be shocked if he's ready but I'm often wrong.  Anton Johansson is an interesting wild card but still probably gets an AHL year.

Danielson, MBN, and maybe Lombardi have a chance to make the team I think for the forwards.  Probably not all of them.  The NHL free agent class is absolutely awful so I don't know what the Wings will do with a decent amount of roster spots open.  I wouldn't mind shooting Rasmussen into the sun to make further room too.

I agree with all of this 100%

Also, I dump and stretch Compher to make additional room. Ras... maybe he can garner a draft pick and I don't really care which round it is... same thing, move him simply for the roster spot.

Is Alex Tuch still hitting free agency?

He's the one and only FA I go ALL OUT to sign (I mean, if I were SY...).

And if I need to use the cash I would have spent on Kane to seal the deal and fit Tuch's expensive FA deal into the Wings salary structure... bye bye Kane. Love ya', and thank you so much for being here... but, it's just time for the Wings to go in a different direction.

IMO.

[slothfacekilla]

I think Tuch hits free agency and gets insanely overpaid because he's the only free agent worth a damn, but once again I'm wrong a lot!  Maybe he likes it in Buffalo after the winning...

[Jason_R]

1 hour ago, slothfacekilla said:

I think Tuch hits free agency and gets insanely overpaid because he's the only free agent worth a damn, but once again I'm wrong a lot!  Maybe he likes it in Buffalo after the winning...

Yes, it seems like anything big that Stevie does this offseason would have to come through a trade. 

[lordstanley]

Max Plante has won the Hobey Baker. Have the Wings ever had a prospect win this? None from the list of winners jumps out me as  Red Wings, but I only recognize half the names.

https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/awards/awarddetail.php?award_id=126

Edited 13 hours ago by lordstanley

[slothfacekilla]

2 hours ago, lordstanley said:

Max Plante has won the Hobey Baker. Have the Wings ever had a prospect win this? None from the list of winners jumps out me as  Red Wings, but I only recognize half the names.

https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/awards/awarddetail.php?award_id=126

Stole this from someone on hfboards:

The only players since the award was first given out in 1981 to win it and to have been 19 or younger when the NCAA season started are;

Paul Kariya (17)
Jack Eichel (17)
Caleb Makar (19)
Cole Caufield (19)
Adam Fantilli (17)
Macklin Celebrini (17)
 

Max turned 20 during this season. Pretty cool!

[Jason_R]

 

From way downtown. It's gonna be nice to have MBN back on the big league roster next season. 

[lordstanley]

7 hours ago, slothfacekilla said:

Stole this from someone on hfboards:

The only players since the award was first given out in 1981 to win it and to have been 19 or younger when the NCAA season started are;

Paul Kariya (17)
Jack Eichel (17)
Caleb Makar (19)
Cole Caufield (19)
Adam Fantilli (17)
Macklin Celebrini (17)
 

Max turned 20 during this season. Pretty cool!

Neat! I went back on clicked on all the past Hobey Baker winners. Like I said, I recognized about half. And that's about the proportion that had meaningful NHL careers. Now and then I'd come across a winner who played a few partial seasons in the NHL but whose name didn't really ring a bell. Fine. But then ...Tony Hrkac. I swear I've never heard this name in my life. Did he grow up in the same town as Kent Hrbek? So I click on his name and, hang on, 758 NHL GP in 17 NHL seasons between 1987-2003, for 9 different NHL teams! Even played in the NHL playoffs for 4 different teams. And I've never heard of him?! How is that possible, lol.