Red Wings Prospects Making Their Points

On this day, the future Red Wings player – Buchelnikov was Detroit’s 52nd overall selection in the 2022 NHL entry draft – was being outshone by a former Wings defenseman. Xavier Ouellet collected a goal and two assists in leading Dinamo Minsk to victory.

Vityaz is 1-6-2 over the past nine games. The club has fallen 15 points out of a KHL playoff spot. Buchelnikov, though, is leading the team in scoring with 13-31-44 totals through 54 games.

Finnie Keeps Firing

Center Emmitt Finnie (201st overall, 2023) will be putting a season-long streak on the line when his Kamloops Blazers travel to Lethbridge for a WHL game on Friday. Through 44 games this season, Finnie hasn’t gone more than one game without collecting a point.

The Blazers captain was blanked in Kamloops’ last game against Vancouver. That brought to a halt Finnie’s five-game point streak during which he’d posted 6-3-9 totals.

Finnie has also assembled a 12-game point streak this season, as well as two four-game runs. He’s leading the Blazers with 29-39-68 numbers.

Kamloops is ninth in the WHL Western Conference, three points out of the playoffs.

Red Wings Goalie Hopeful Struggling

While there’s plenty of excitement among Red Wings fans regarding goalie prospects Sebastian Cossa and Trey Augustine, it’s been a tough first season for Landon Miller as part of the Red Wings pool of future netminding hopefuls.

Both Miller and his club, the OHL’s Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds, are enduring a difficult campaign. Miller (126th overall, 2024) shows a 9-15 record with a 4.26 goals-against average and .872 save percentage. He’s been pulled in two of his last three starts and allowed six goals in three of his past five appearances.

“I know I have the talent, and I believe in myself,” Miller told the Sault Star.

Ar 21-32-2, the Greyhounds are clinging to the eighth and final OHL Western Conference playoff spot by one point.

Former Red Wings On Move Again

Former Red Wings left-winger Teemu Pulkkinen is on the move again. He’s joining his third team of the season and fifth over the past three campaigns.

After starting the European campaign with Schwenninger Wild Wings of Germany’s DEL, Pulkkinen was joining Poprad of Slovakia’s Extraliga. Now he’s making the move to Switzerland, where he’ll be playing for HC La Chaux-de-Fonds.

Another former Red Wings forward is also moving to the Swiss National League. Brendan Perlini has signed with Lausanne HC. He was recently let go by Spartak Moscow of the KHL.

Pulkkinen was good for 11 goals and nine assists in 70 games with Detroit from 2013-16. He won an AHL Calder Cup title with the Grand Rapids Griffins in 2012-13.

Left-winger Perlini accounted for 1-3-4 numbers in 39 games for the Red Wings in 2019-20.