from Nate Brown of Detroit Hockey Now,
The Detroit Red Wings traded away key players before and at the deadline. They’ve lost key players to injury. Yet they continue to fight and sit at 35-33-9 with five games to go.
It’s not the rebuild on the fly Red Wings. It certainly isn’t the team that took its lumps for the first three seasons of a true rebuild.
It’s a team moving forward in spite of missing pieces.
It’s a sign that things are moving in the right direction.
Red Wings Take Care of Business
The 5-0 victory over the Canadiens Tuesday night was a win they should have had. In years past, it’s one they drop or at the least, struggle with. Following a win over Toronto on Sunday, Detroit has won four of its last five. It certainly doesn’t help their lottery odds, but at this point, what is Detroit really playing for? It’s been some time since a buzz has surrounded the team this late in the season. For two and a half decades, the end of the season was merely a formality as fans geared up for the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Surprising as it is, the Red Wings head into their seventh consecutive season without a playoff appearance. Yet that buzz, when Marco Kasper, Simon Edvinsson, Moritz Seider and Lucas Raymond all played together against Toronto was intoxicating for fans. On the ice was the future–and winning. The promise of what Steve Yzerman was when he returned was there in the instant. Though Kasper was out to due to injury against Montreal, the result was the same: another win.
Watch the game highlights from last night's win over Montreal.
(Toledo, OH) Goaltender Sebastian Cossa is the Warrior Hockey ECHL Goaltender of the Month for March.
Cossa went 6-1-1 with a 1.73 goals-against average and a .944 save percentage in his eight appearances in March. He allowed two goals or less in six of his eight starts that included a 23-save 1-0 shutout of Wheeling on March 5. The 20-year-old took home ECHL Goalie of the Week honors for the week that ended on March 5. Five times in the month he had 32 or more saves in a game.
For the year, Cossa currently ranks third in the ECHL with 25 wins while being tied for second in the league with four shutouts and his 2.52 GAA is seventh. He has also posted a personal-best ten-game win streak that was snapped in Toledo 4-2 loss to Reading on March 24.
This is the first pro season for Cossa after being drafted by Detroit in the first round (#15 overall) in the 2021 NHL Draft. He had a record of 71-16-7 in three seasons with Edmonton of the WHL in his junior career. Cossa posted a career 2.28 GAA and .913 SVP in the WHL. He was a member of Team Canadas gold medal winning team at the 2022 World Junior Championship.
Perron mic'd up at a late March practice.
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