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Red Wings assistant GM Jim Nill confirms Fabian Brunnstrom try-out
by George Malik on 08/15/11 at 08:11 PM ET
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This morning, Aftonbladet’s Tomas Ros reported that the Wings have signed Fabian Brunnstrom to a try-out (and again, thanks to Yahoo Sports’ Sean Leahy for the tip) as the 26-year-old forward attempts to regain his footing in the NHL, and Wings assistant GM Jim Nill has confirmed the news to the Grand Rapids Press’s Michael Zuidema...
“Things just haven’t gone the way he wanted to. He actually approached us and said he’d like another opportunity,” Nill said. “He knows now what it takes to be a pro after it probably caught him a little off guard being a younger guy from Sweden. I think he just said, ‘You know what, if I’m going to have a chance to be a pro maybe I can do it in Detroit.’ We said, ‘You’re welcome to come and try out,’ and he accepted.”
The 26-year-old became just the third player in NHL history to notch a hat trick in his debut on Oct. 15, 2008 against Nashville, and tallied 17 goals, 12 assists and a minus-8 rating in 55 games as a rookie in 2008-09. But he had just two goals and nine assists in 44 games the following season and had trouble adjusting to NHL hockey. The 6-foot-1, 206-pound left wing was traded to Toronto last season for forward Mikhail Stefanovich, but never played for the Maple Leafs. Instead, he appeared in 35 games for the Toronto Marlies of the AHL, where he had four goals and 10 assists.
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Aftonbladet: Red Wings sign Fabian Brunnstrom to try-out
by George Malik on 08/15/11 at 12:48 PM ET
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Updated 3x at 2:33 PM, and MLive is confirming the Brunnstrom signing: Via Paul and Yahoo Sports’ Sean Leahy, Aftonbladet’s Tomas Ros reports that the Red Wings have signed Fabian Brunnstrom to a try-out, with Brunnstrom having turned down a contract offer from HV71 Jonkoping (and Farjestads BK) in the process.
Brunnstrom’s been asked whether he’d return to the Eliteserien all summer long, but the former Dallas Star and Toronto Maple Leaf’s stated repeatedly that he wants to try to find an NHL job.
Here’s a rough translation of Ros’s article:
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Red Wings overnight report: regional economic issues mean JLA’s successor will be difficult to build
by George Malik on 08/15/11 at 07:40 AM ET
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My goal as a Red Wings blogger is usually pretty simple: I try to post as much Wings-related news as I’m able to find, suggest that you read the entire story for yourself and turn the discussion over to the more qualified people (i.e. my readers), and not that difficult to summarize an article’s thrust 99% of the time because it’s available for your perusal.
This morning I’m in a bit of a pickle as Crain’s Detroit Business’s Bill Shea displays astute timing (as Ilitch Charities’ golf classic takes place today, yielding a summit of “movers and shakers” in the business sense of the term) in discussing the Ilitches and Olympia Entertainment’s discussions with the City of Detroit regarding a short-term lease on Joe Louis Arena and the construction of its follow-on facility…
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A Swedish interview with Nicklas Lidstrom and a Red Wings season preview
by George Malik on 08/14/11 at 06:56 PM ET
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Via a Twitter message from TMR reader Fredrik Hilding, SVT conducted an interview with Red Wings captain Nicklas Lidstrom today (they haven’t posted it to their hockey page yet, so I missed it on their main sports page) which includes a nearly four-minute long video interview with Lidstrom (including quite a bit of Lidstrom seemingly strutting around Vasteras and speaking Swedish with a Midwestern accent) and a print version thereof that’s much more optimistic in tone than the heartbreaker two weeks ago, when Lidstrom stated that he’s all but certain to return to Sweden when his career’s over.
Here’s a rough translation of the print portion of Johan Wahlin and Viktor Petrovski’s interview with Lidstrom:
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Red Wings overnight report: tidbits aren’t necessarily a bad thing
by George Malik on 08/14/11 at 08:17 AM ET
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For those of you who’ve begun to find the nexus of a lack of substantive content and reaching the two-month mark of no hockey games being played and no Red Wings playing, either making you “something something,” I can completely understand the concept that summer’s become all but intolerable for you. For those of us who still spend our days and nights looking for whatever tidbits of Wings or NHL-related news are out there, however…
I’ve learned to not complain when reaching a dry spell, lest an incredibly long interview in Finnish or Slovak pop up, and in terms of giving into the tendency to simply grumble about content others are posting when one disagrees with the assumptions made therein (and there’s quite a lot of that kind of stuff out there these days), well…
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Red Wings to engage in an ‘all-inclusive’ training camp
by George Malik on 08/13/11 at 06:58 PM ET
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According to RedWingsCentral’s Sarah Lindenau, writing on her Left Wing Lock blog, the Detroit Red Wings’ decision to add two days to their training camp will yield a much bigger-than-usual roster for the festivities:
The Detroit Red Wings have announced their 2011 training camp roster to be held at Centre I.C.E. arena in Traverse City, MI. The main camp roster features this summers free agent signings – Ty Conklin, Ian White and Mike Commodore. Additionally, all prospects from the Red Wings prospect tournament roster will be participating in the main camp (including the seven free agent try outs) as well as players slated to play in the Red Wings farm system.
At present there are no free-agent try-out surprises, but we’ll see whether that changes over the course of the next month, and you can take a gander at the full roster here.
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Red Wings overnight report: the Sadikov gamble and the TC trip fund, part 2
by George Malik on 08/13/11 at 09:15 AM ET
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When the Red Wings announced the schedule and roster for the 2011 prospect tournament in Traverse City, Wings fans with internet service (I wasn’t among them), and I want to make sure I use this technical term correctly:“Googled the hell out of” the try-outs.
I can boast for once and say I hope they checked out my reports from the summer development camp TMR’s readers sent me to, because I can at least say that I’ve seen Zach Franko, Adam Estcolet, Evan Mosher and Artem Sergeev in person and can confirm that the two slightly-built centers, Quebec butterfly goaltender and slick Russian defenseman, respectively, can keep up and definitely displayed enough skill on the ice and determination off it to merit invites to the prospect tournament and chances to earn their way onto the main camp roster, if not earn contracts with the team.
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A fist-shaking Red Wings evening ramble: prospect tournament roster talk
by George Malik on 08/12/11 at 10:50 PM ET
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You’ll have to thank Paul for posting the Red Wings’ prospect tournament schedule and roster as my ISP mysteriously decided to conk out for the entire day.
The roster lacks several AHL’ers who’ve played in too many pro games, are too old (it’s usually a combination of both) to participate (like Tomas Tatar, Thomas McCollum, Jordan Pearce, etc.) and/or are simply being held out of the tournament for the sake of younger players gaining experience, but the roster looks very solid and really highlights a core of players who are either eligible to turn pro or are ready to take bigger roles on the Grand Rapids Griffins’ roster.
The Wings also brought most of their try-outs from the summer development camp back, including players who are no longer the organization’s property in Nick Oslund and Bryan Rufenach, a trio of players who infamously were discovered to have been linked to Shop.nhl.com’s Wings jersey customizer by the Production Line in diminutive forwards Zachery Franko and Adam Estcolet as well as cookie-cutter Quebec Butterfly goalie Evan Mosher…
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Detroit Hosts 2011 NHL Prospects Tournament
by George Malik on 08/12/11 at 04:37 PM ET
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See the Wings roster below…
Detroit, MI…The Detroit Red Wings will host the 2011 NHL Prospects Tournament at Centre Ice Arena in Traverse City, MI beginning Saturday, September 10, through Wednesday, September 14. The eight-team tournament includes the best prospects from the Red Wings, Buffalo Sabres, Columbus Blue Jackets, Minnesota Wild, Carolina Hurricanes, St. Louis Blues, Dallas Stars and the New York Rangers. Detroit’s roster includes the club’s first-round draft pick from the 2007 NHL Entry Draft (defenseman Brendan Smith), along with the Red Wings’ first selections in the 2009 and 2011 drafts (center Landon Ferraro and right wing Tomas Jurco).
The tournament consists of four games on Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Admission is just $10 per day. Tickets are available in advance at http://www.CentreIce.org or at the arena doors beginning one hour before each day’s first game. Daily morning practice sessions are open to the public and free of charge.
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Red Wings overnight report: Bertuzzi, Filppula and Stuart, difference-makers
by George Malik on 08/12/11 at 08:04 AM ET
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We can talk all we want about Jimmy Howard needing to take a little refresher course on rebound control or the fact that the Red Wings can’t rely on one person to step up and fill the leadership voids left by Brian Rafalski, Kris Draper and Chris Osgood, but of all the players that the Free Press’s Helene St. James has focused upon as potential difference-makers (Jiri Hudler, Niklas Kronwall, Danny Cleary, Jonathan Ericsson, Ian White and Johan Franzen), I’d argue that three players will determine whether the Wings eventually need to acquire assistance at the trade deadline, and they might not be the players you’re thinking of.
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