Detroit Jr. Red Wings News & Stories

Anton Frondell's big week, Ivan Demidov's continued success, Marco Kasper's breakout, and more feature in this week's Roundup.

Šimon Nemec's breakout, Berkly Catton's offensive surge, Jesse Kiiskinen's playmaking, and more in this week's Rinkside Roundup.

Felix Nilsson's breakout season, David Edstrom's continued success, Noah Dower-Nilsson's improvement, and more in this edition of Stock Watch.

Dmitri Buchelnikov emerges as a top KHL scorer, while Magomed Sharakanov and Alexander Zharovsky are building strong cases for the NHL Draft.

Impressive performances by Matthew Schaefer, Simon Edvinsson, Jacob Fowler, Andrew Cristall, and Luca Pinelli feature in this week's Rinkside Roundup.

Elite Prospects' first Calder Power Ranking is here, and just in time for the what looks like the most competitive race in years.

Jesse Pulkkinen, Carter Sotheran, Noel Fransén, Hoyt Stanley, Anton Johansson, and Tyler Thorpe highlight the list of players who could ascend to top prospect status in the 2024-25 season.

JFresh ranks the 20 best centres going into the 2024-25 NHL season.

Zeev Buium, Adam Kleber, and Sam Rinzel highlight this year's most improved players from the USHL and NCAA.

For the first in NHL history a pair of Norwegians were in the first 32 picks.

Big week for all the news freaks out there.

The Detroit Red Wings defender spoke with EP Rinkside about the World Junior Championship and how his time at the tournament helped lay the groundwork for German success.

It's hard work digging deep, which is why Cam Robinson is back for another round of Mining the waiver wire. He digs, and you reap the rewards.

The second-youngest player in college hockey is shooting up draft charts and doing while enjoying playing with his older brother.

The Detroit Red Wings are betting big on a surgery recapturing some of Kane's old form.

Sean Shapiro's latest looks at the three-headed goalie carousels on the Detroit Red Wings and Montréal Canadiens rosters.

Sean Shapiro looks at the early season start for Martin St. Louis and the Montréal Canadiens before flying around the league for his weekly look at the NHL.

Sean Shapiro brings you his collection of notes and observations from the week, starting with the importance of the Florida Panthers captain

The November WHL Stock Watch zeroes in on the performances of Denton Mateychuk, Jagger Firkus, Zac Funk, Ondřej Becher, Terik Parascak, Noah Chadwick, Nate Danielson, and Marek Alscher.

Sean Shapiro goes through the NHL in his weekly column, looking at Logan Thompson's return to the crease, gambling in hockey, player- and puck-tracking data, and more!

Lucas Raymond was taken fourth overall in 2020 by the Detroit Red Wings. The EP Rinkside team had Raymond ranked third that year so it already seems like a value....

Sean Shapiro brings his weekly connection of notes, stories, and observations from around the hockey world.

Mitch Brown highlights six prospects who have the most to prove in the 2023-24 season.

Preseason is always full of surprises, but preseason success doesn't equal NHL success.

Sean Shapiro takes a look around the league in his latest edition of Unnumbered Thoughts.

JFresh continues his look at the NHL's top players by looking at the centres.

Associate Editor Sean Shapiro lays out some of the things he'll be tracking when watching the Atlantic Division this season.

Mitch Brown looks at the CHL Prospects that improved the most and how they altered their games for the better.

The Elite Prospects ranking of the NHL's 100 best affiliated prospects comes to a close with the 25 best prospects in hockey.

He's the best prospect since Connor McDavid and even had a better junior career than the Edmonton Oilers superstar. Tonight all eyes will be on the lottery.

Associate editor Sean Shapiro takes a look around the NHL and share his thoughts and views on the past couple weeks.

The Red Wings were on a collision course to move Vrana at some point this season.

It was about as emotional as a contract extension press conference could have been.

The Detroit captain is now signed until he's 34.

The Red Wings captain makes as much of a statement as one could make in the All-Star Game.

Dimitri Filipovic picks out eight Eastern Conference nuggets heading into the All-Star break.

David St-Louis kicks off this year's Draft Retrospective series with a look at how the Detroit Red Wings unearthed Elmer Söderblom in the sixth round back in 2019.

Elite Prospects lead scout David St-Louis highlights one prospect from each of the NHL's 32 teams and tells you why they're the one to follow at their team's training camp.

Dimitri Filipovic takes a look at the notable signings from the first day of free agency, highlighting the winners, losers, and big takeaways that emerged throughout the opening spending spree.

The latest edition of the Scout's Notebook has Elite Prospects Dir. of North American scouting looking at the progress of three second-round pick defensive prospects from the 2021 NHL Draft -- Shai Buium, Olen Zellweger, and Jack Peart.

The subject of today's Rookie Mid-Term is Detroit Red Wings defenceman Moritz Seider. The former sixth-overall pick is well ahead of schedule, looking the part of a No. 1 defenceman already.

Edmonton Oilers general manager Ken Holland hasn't tried anything, and he's fresh out of ideas. EP Rinkside senior columnist Ryan Lambert on another confidence shattering press conference from the Oilers GM.

Not many saw it coming when the Detroit Red Wings drafted Carter Mazur in the third round of last July's draft. Now he's reached a new level at the University of Denver, and been rewarded with a spot on Team USA's World Junior roster.

The future has arrived for the Detroit Red Wings, but the best has yet to come.

Lucas Raymond is off to a fantastic start to his NHL career, second in points on his Detroit Red Wings and with stellar underlying metrics to boot. David St-Louis takes you into the Film Room to examine Raymond's game in its totality.

We're about 1/8th of the way through the NHL season. That's around 12 percent for you percentage-preferring people. Every year, the talking heads (myself included) inundate the readers...

The Detroit Red Wings boast the second-best prospect pool in the NHL, and they're the subject of today's writeup in the EP Rinkside prospect pool rankings series.

As the NHL pre-season wraps up, Elite Prospects lead scout David St-Louis checks in on the progress of top prospects in the Eastern Conference.

This may look to you as a standard NHL “power rankings” but let me assure you, friend, that it is anything but. These rankings are based entirely on how I feel about a team’s chances of winning the Cup, meaning you can’t tell me I’m wrong because these are my feelings and feelings can’t be wrong.

We've ranked the top 100 skater prospects this week, and now we're following that up with Elite Prospects goalie expert Catherine Silverman's look at the top goalie prospects in the sport.

Russ Cohen takes a look at which one of the two 2020 draftees and Swedish League products will make it to the NHL first: Lucas Raymond or Alexander Holtz.

There is a small-arms race going on in the Atlantic Division, and that could define it for the 2021-22 NHL season. Ryan Lambert has that, and more, in this week's What we Learned.

The Detroit Red Wings made a move to shore up their goaltending depth, acquiring pending restricted free agent tender Alex Nedeljkovic for pending unrestricted free agent goaltender Jonathan Bernier and a third-round pick. J.D. Burke has more.

The Detroit Red Wings acquired Nick Leddy from the New York Islanders for a second-round pick and Richard Pánik. J.D. Burke has more on this trade.

In a normal world, we'd be gearing up for the NHL Draft weekend right meow. For myself and many of my scouting colleagues, this is our Christmas season. The time...

JFresh dives into the teams that missed the playoffs in the East and Central Division

Moritz Seider takes home the 2020-21 EliteProspects award as the SHL's top junior player, as voted by a panel of representatives from EliteProspects and HockeySverige. J.D. Burke has more.

We're entering the home stretch of the NHL and the Fantasy Hockey season alike, and Cam Robinson gets you up to speed on how to best position yourself to come out on top in this week's edition of Fantasy Weekly.

The Washington Capitals pried Anthony Mantha from the Detroit Red Wings for Jakub Vrana, Richard Panik, and a first- and a second-round pick. It's the blockbuster deal of the deadline, and J.D. Burke has more.

J.D. Burke and his team of writers are going to grade transactions as they occur in the lead-up to the 2020-21 trade deadline, on April 12th.

The Montréal Canadiens have added a credible defensive presence with a little snarl to their blue line, acquiring Jon Merrill from the Detroit Red Wings for a fifth-round pick and Hayden Verbeek. J.D. Burke has more.

The Colorado Avalanche have made their first move of the deadline, prying Patrik Nemeth from the Detroit Red Wings for a fourth-round pick in the 2022 NHL Entry Draft.

NCAA star Cole Caufield has turned pro, and his next stop is the AHL. Patrick Williams breaks down Caufield's move to the Laval Rocket.

The Canucks lack of a plan. Luke Hughes' season-ending injury. The Tim Peel incident. Refereeing in general. Rachel Doerrie is back with her trademark brand of in-depth analysis and sass, with another edition of Doerrie's Deets.

Ryan Lambert ranks the NHL's 31 teams according to how he feels about their chances to win the Stanley Cup, and the thing about feelings is that you can't argue them, so...

The EliteProspects Podcast with J.D. Burke and Craig Button returns, available wherever you get your podcasts. In this episode, our hosts interview Detroit Red Wings Dir. of European Scouting Håkan Andersson.

Bobby Ryan is putting together a renaissance season with the Detroit Red Wings, and an unlikely connection with NWHL forward Allie LaCombe in the off-season helped him get there.

Can the Olympic Athletes from Russia pull off an improbable gold model repeat at the 2022 Olympic games?

JFresh takes an early look at what Team USA might look like if the NHL returns to the Olympics next year.

Sweden's Albin Sundsvik seemed almost at a loss for words when I asked him for comment on Elmer Söderblom's 4-1 goal in the third period. "Yeah, it’s amazing," Sundsvik told EliteProspects. "He’s a big guy, but he’s got really good hands as well. That was really cool to see. It was just an amazing goal." Even that might sell it short.

The World Junior Hockey Championships are always fraught with challenges for NHL scouts, but in a year unlike any other, this tournament poses a unique set of challenges all its own.