The Left Wing Lock

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It’s been a long agonizing offseason for Andrej Nestrasil. The former 75th overall pick in the 2009 NHL draft had until June 1st to ink an entry level deal with the Red Wings or his rights would have been lost.

“Three days before the first of June, my agent called me and said ‘Everything is fine and I am going to continue in the organization’,” Nestrasil said. “I have to say I was really really happy because I was nervous all summer … Continue Reading

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Brian Lashoff wants to put the disappointment of his AHL rookie season behind him. The 21 year-old defenseman suffered two serious injuries that nearly derailed his season and limited him to just 37 games.

“I separated my shoulder five games in to the season and I had a high ankle sprain in January,” he said. “It was tough as I thought I was playing pretty well. When I came back I was trying to get back in the lineup and I was kind of behind the eight ball a little bit … Continue Reading

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This wasn’t the start that Petr Mrazek or the Red Wings had hoped for. After a strong opening period in Saturday night’s game against the Blue Jackets, the Red Wings surrendered four unanswered goals.

“Columbus is a tough team,” Mrazek said. “We had a great first period and then the second period was important for them as they scored four goals. They scored two power play goals which hurt us. We have to do better.”

In addition to the untimely penalties, the Red Wings had some of defensive lapses and turnovers in … Continue Reading

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Gustav Nyquist is ready for a fresh start. The 22 year-old forward is coming off a disappointing final season with the University of Maine Black Bears that saw the team finish without an invitation to the NCAA tournament.

“Obviously I wanted to do something special with Maine last year and unfortunately we couldn’t do that,” Nyquist said. “I thought we had a really good and experienced team with a lot of great players but we didn’t make it the whole way and missed the NCAA tournament which was a disappointment.”

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For thirteen years the Detroit Red Wings have been the gracious host of the NHL Prospects tournament. While winning the tournament doesn’t really mean anything other than a group of prospects was able to find chemistry quickly, don’t think that the Detroit brass isn’t taking this year’s tournament seriously. While Red Wings teams of years past have been heavily dominated by free agent tryouts, this years team boasts two of their top three prospects in Gustav Nyquist and Brendan Smith as well as the likes of Tomas Jurco, Landon … Continue Reading