Red Wings launch 2025 NHL Prospect Games roster

DETROIT – The Detroit Red Wings at this time launched their 2025 NHL Prospect Games roster for the two-day occasion, held on Saturday, Sept. 13 and Sunday, Sept. 14 at Comerica Center in Frisco, Texas. The staff consists of 24 current draft picks, free agent signees and tryouts who will battle in opposition to prospects from the Dallas Stars.

The Red Wings roster is highlighted by first-round picks from every of the final three NHL Entry Drafts: heart Nate Danielson (ninth total, 2023), defenseman Axel Sandin-Pellikka (seventeenth total, 2023), proper wing Michael Brandsegg-Nygård (fifteenth total, 2024) and left wing Carter Bear (thirteenth total, 2025). Danielson spent your entire 2024-25 season with the American Hockey League’s Grand Rapids Griffins, recording 39 factors (12-27-39), a plus-four score and 33 penalty minutes in 71 regular-season video games throughout his rookie marketing campaign. The 6-foot-1, 191-pound ahead additionally netted one objective in three Calder Cup Playoff video games with the Griffins. Sandin-Pellikka started the 2024-25 season with Skellefteå AIK within the Swedish Hockey League, logging 29 factors (12-17-29) and 22 penalty minutes in 46 regular-season video games, along with eight factors (1-7-8) and two penalty minutes in 11 postseason contests. His 12 objectives and 29 factors have been probably the most of any under-20 skater in Sweden’s prime skilled league. The 5-foot-11, 185-pound blueliner made his North American skilled debut with the Griffins in 2024-25, choosing up one help in two regular-season video games earlier than skating in three Calder Cup Playoff video games.

Brandsegg-Nygård additionally began the 2024-25 marketing campaign in Sweden with Skellefteå AIK, accumulating 11 factors (5-6-11) and 51 penalty minutes in 42 regular-season video games, together with six factors (4-2-6) and 12 penalty minutes in 11 postseason matchups. The 6-foot-1, 206-pound ahead made his North American skilled debut with the Griffins in 2024-25, showing in two regular-season video games earlier than notching three factors (2-1-3) in three Calder Cup Playoff video games. Bear performed the 2024-25 season with the Western Hockey League’s Everett Silvertips and ranked among the many staff leaders with 40 objectives (1st), 42 assists (4th), 82 factors (1st), a plus-33 score (seventh), 77 penalty minutes (2nd), 14 energy play objectives (1st), 27 energy play factors (T1st), two shorthanded objectives (T2nd), 9 game-winning objectives (1st) and 185 photographs (4th) in 56 regular-season video games. The 6-foot, 179-pound ahead has compiled 141 factors (66-75-141), a plus-53 score and 103 penalty minutes in 142 WHL video games with the Silvertips since 2022-23

Other roster notables embody left wing Kevin Bicker (147th total, 2023), who was named Rookie of the Year in Germany’s prime skilled league after recording 5 assists, a plus-three score and 15 penalty minutes in 20 video games with Löwen Frankfurt; goaltender Rudy Guimond (169th total, 2023), who posted a 16-0-0 report with a 1.73 goals-against common, a 0.940 save proportion and three shutouts in 16 video games with the Moncton Wildcats within the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League, serving to the membership win their first league title since 2010; and heart Emmitt Finnie (201st total, 2023), who led the WHL’s Kamloops Blazers with 84 factors (37-47-84) in 55 video games earlier than recording 5 factors (1-4-5) in 10 regular-season video games with the Griffins; and heart Ondřej Becher (eightieth total, 2024), who registered 20 factors (10-10-20) and eight penalty minutes in 59 video games in his rookie season with the Griffins.

Thirteen of the 24 gamers on the roster are former Red Wings draft picks, with the 4 first-round picks along with one second-round decide, two third-round choices, one fourth-round decide, one fifth-round choice, two sixth-round picks and two seventh-round picks. The drafted prospects vary in age from 4 18-year-olds chosen at the latest 2025 NHL Entry Draft (Bear, third-rounder Michal Pradel, sixth-rounder Will Murphy and seventh-rounder Grayden Robertson-Palmer) to a 22-year-old (Shai Buium, a 2021 second-round decide who ranked second amongst Grand Rapids defensemen with 25 factors (2-23-25), a plus-two score and 22 penalty minutes in 67 video games final season).