{"id":133781,"date":"2025-08-10T07:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T07:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/133781\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T07:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T07:26:10","slug":"top-prospects-for-detroit-red-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/133781\/","title":{"rendered":"Top prospects for Detroit Red Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How acquired:<\/strong> Selected with No. 17 pick in 2023 NHL Draft<\/p>\n<p><strong>2024-25 season:<\/strong> Skelleftea AIK (SHL): 46 GP, 12-17-29; Grand Rapids (AHL): 2 GP, 0-1-1<\/p>\n<p>Sandin-Pellikka (5-11, 185), 20, was named the 2025 Swedish Junior Hockey Player of the Year with Skellefte\u00e5 AIK in the Swedish Hockey League, Sweden&#8217;s top professional men&#8217;s league. His 12 goals and 29 points were the most of any under-21 skater in Sweden\u2019s top division. He had eight points (one goal, seven assists) in 11 playoff games to help Skellefte\u00e5 reach the SHL semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>The right-handed shot compensates for his lack of size with his hockey smarts and tremendous work ethic. He starred for Sweden at the 2025 WJC when he was named the tournament&#8217;s best defenseman, recording 10 points (four goals, six assists) in seven games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I anticipate he&#8217;ll play a regular role (in Grand Rapids), be good on the power play,&#8221; Cleary said. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to work on his skating, his strength and his ability to move around the ice, especially in the neutral zone and in the defensive zone. He&#8217;s got to spend a lot of time in the gym, working on skating, learning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Projected NHL arrival:<\/strong> 2026-27<\/p>\n<p><strong>How acquired:<\/strong> Selected with No. 13 pick in 2025 NHL Draft<\/p>\n<p><strong>2024-25 season:<\/strong> Everett (WHL): 56 GP: 40-42-82<\/p>\n<p>Bear (6-0, 179) tied for seventh in the Western Hockey League in goals, and led the Silvertips in points and power-play goals (14) despite sustaining a partially torn Achilles tendon on March 9. The 18-year-old is on track to be fully cleared for Red Wings training camp by September.<\/p>\n<p>Bear is well-regarded for his skill, work ethic and maturity. He also can play center or on the wing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Very skilled, very tenacious,&#8221; Red Wings assistant GM and director of amateur scouting Kris Draper said. &#8220;I really appreciate the effort, compete and the way he thinks the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Projected NHL arrival:<\/strong> 2027-28<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How acquired: Selected with No. 17 pick in 2023 NHL Draft 2024-25 season: Skelleftea AIK (SHL): 46 GP,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":133782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-133781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}