Red Wings 2026 April Game Thread

[lordstanley]

Turning the page on the calendar, thank goodness. Looking like Dead Wings but sweep the next (at Philly, at NYR, vs Minnesota) and hopes could be resurrected Easter Sunday. 
 

Edited Thursday at 11:05 PM by lordstanley

[lordstanley]

Since leaving the Wings after the 2021 season, Luke Glendenning has played 33 playoff games for two different teams over four post-seasons. Now with the Flyers and contending with the Wings for another playoff spot. 

[lordstanley]

DeBrincat gives the Wings de lead!

[Hongbit]

Much much better 1st period 

[lordstanley]

Wings build on that decent road 1st period ...by giving up the tying goal 31 seconds into the 2nd. What a waste. 

[gehringer_2]

53 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

Since leaving the Wings after the 2021 season, Luke Glendenning has played 33 playoff games for two different teams over four post-seasons. Now with the Flyers and contending with the Wings for another playoff spot. 

What's worse, they have yet to a single player to the roster who is as good a forechecker as Luke was. Again, where is the overall concept behind what players they add vs let go?

[lordstanley]

Wings need more offense. Haven’t really threatened in the 2nd. 1-1 late in period.  Ottawa, Columbus and Washington are all losing

[lordstanley]

Edvinsson made that play. 2-1 Wings. Raymond with the goal. 

[Jason_R]

Great play by Edvinsson. At 6 and a half feet tall!?!

[Jason_R]

What happened to Faulk?

[Hongbit]

[Jason_R]

How many impossibly close goals are going to go against this team?

[Jason_R]

OMG. ADB. 

[Jason_R]

Win

[lordstanley]

Wings win. Sens win. Jackets lose. Caps losing. I’ll take it. 

[Shinzaki]

11 hours ago, Jason_R said:

Great play by Edvinsson. At 6 and a half feet tall!?!

He needs to assert himself on the offensive end more oftne

[Jason_R]

16 minutes ago, Shinzaki said:

He needs to assert himself on the offensive end more oftne

Yes, but one of the challenges for a young defenseman is learning how to assert yourself offensively while remaining responsible defensively. It is exciting to see him flash that skill though. 

[gehringer_2]

20 minutes ago, Jason_R said:

Yes, but one of the challenges for a young defenseman is learning how to assert yourself offensively while remaining responsible defensively. It is exciting to see him flash that skill though. 

It's not only the Dmen learning when to do it. It's also the whether team supports it. I think one of the great failings of the Wings as team is that their two big D men are two of the best puck possession talents on the team, but the lack of ability of the wing's forwards as a group to rotate and back check in any useful way means the Wings can never let those two play to their full potential. McLellan has them playing a little freer, but not all that much. Of course you generally need speed and size in your forwards for them to be good 200 ft players (even if DeBrincat is the exception) .....

Edited 13 hours ago by gehringer_2

[Jason_R]

I stumbled across this site which shows ice time for various line combinations: https://frozenpool.dobbersports.com/

Just for grins I looked up Marco Kasper. People talk about a sophomore slump but last year he spent almost half his even strength ice time with Larkin/Raymond or Kane/Debrincat. This season he spent less than a quarter of his even strength ice time with them. This is not so much a sophomore slump as it is the obvious consequence of pairing a kid with linemates who are replacement level or worse. 

[Mr.TaterSalad]

One of my big questions for Yzerman would be why waste a first round pick on an AHL player? Is Cossa really that bad of a player that he couldn't have been on the big league roster this year?