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Michigan State goalie commit Trey Augustine selected 41st overall in NHL Draft

MSU bound goalie Trey Augustine has been selected in the 2nd round of the NHL draft

Michigan State hockey coach Adam Nightingale hit a homerun when he landed United States National Development Team u-18 goaltender Trey Augustine, flipping his commitment in favor of the Spartans over the rival Michigan Wolverines.

The significance of the Spartans netminder in 2023-24 has just been amplified, as the Detroit Red Wings have selected Augustine with the 41st overall pick in the 2nd round of the NHL entry draft.

Augustine will look to be the next great goaltender in Michigan State hockey history.

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Red Wings’ David Perron adorably surprised his kids with the pucks from his hat trick

No better way to celebrate a hat trick

Detroit left winger David Perron got to play hero on Tuesday night against his former Pittsburgh Penguins club.

The Red Wings took a 3-0 lead in the first period, gave it all back in the second, watched coach Derek Lalonde get unceremoniously ejected after a ridiculous call and entered the third period on their heels.

Then Perron showed up.

He scored a natural hat trick 13 minutes with his final two goals coming just 45 seconds apart. That gave Detroit a 6-4 lead which a Dylan Larkin empty-netter stretched to 7-4 to seal the victory at Little Caesars Arena.

The eighth hat trick of Perron’s career might end up as one of the most special achievements for him. Not because of how he scored or who it was against, but because of how he got to celebrate when he got home.

Perron posted on Instagram showing he had all the pucks from his tremendous performance lined up on a counter with one for each of his three kids waiting when they wake up.

Well, that’s just the absolute best. Being a parent who is also a professional athlete certainly has its drawbacks, but this isn’t one of them.

We only wish we could’ve seen the look on the faces of Perron’s children when they woke up on Wednesday.

Red Wings coach Derek Lalonde’s expletive-laden reaction to goalie inference challenge was so relatable

No one knows what goaltender interference is, especially not Derek Lalonde.

Goaltender interference is a toss-up call in the NHL. Much like the NFL’s “what is a catch?” debate, no one really knows how referees will rule on goaltender interference in any given game.

Unfortunately for the Detroit Red Wings, the goaltender interference debacle hit them hard on Tuesday during their game against the Pittsburgh Penguins. In a crucial moment in the middle of the second period, the Penguins tied the game 3-3 on the power play after Jeff Carter redirected the puck in over the line with Jason Zucker tying up goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic in front.

Red Wings head coach Derek Lalonde challenged the play for goaltender interference, but ultimately came up short as the officials ruled it a good goal. While Lalonde’s reaction wasn’t audible on the broadcast, you don’t need to be good at lip reading to understand what he was saying.

Lalonde was even tossed from the game after that expletive-laden reaction to the goaltender interference challenge!

Honestly, I get where Lalonde is coming from. I’ve seen goaltender interference called for less many times over the years and Zucker was right up in Nedeljkovic’s face digging at his pads.

MORE NHL: Wild’s Ryan Reaves wanted stronger smelling salts and he was so not ready for them.

Whether or not this was the right call, the NHL has to be more consistent in ruling on goaltender interference or we may get more reactions like Lalonde’s in the future.

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Dylan Larkin absolutely caught fire during NHL All-Star Weekend with 5 goals

Dylan Larkin went OFF.

Detroit Red Wings center Dylan Larkin treated the NHL All-Star Games like any other NHL contests on Saturday.

Catching serious fire for the Atlantic team, Larkin scored an absurd five goals during the day as his conference group won the all-star weekend.

The Atlantic team topped both the Metropolitan and Central conference teams during the NHL’s gathering of its best players, and Larkin had the best day of anyone playing. He even scored a hat trick during the weekend’s final game.

The Red Wings captain has no trouble putting up highlights, and his NHL All-Star weekend will undoubtedly help bolster his case as he tries to secure a lucrative new deal during the offseason when free agency hits.

Wow, Larkin really wasn’t messing around this weekend.

As he proved he’s easily one of the NHL’s most dangerous offensive players, Larkin put on a show for the league’s other teams if the Red Wings choose to let him walk in the offseason.

In short, somebody is going to pay Larkin handsomely this summer.

Feature image courtesy of ESPN.

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Dylan Larkin pulled a Don Beebe by incredibly saving an empty net at the last second for Red Wings

Well, that’s one way to help force an overtime.

Rarely in hockey does pulling the goalie mean you’re on the cusp of scoring a goal.

Don’t tell that to the Detroit Red Wings, who pulled off just that with an insane sequence late in the third period of their Monday night clash with the Los Angeles Kings.

Down 4-3 and with only 90 seconds to go, the Red Wings decided to pull goalie Alexander Nedeljkovic to send in the extra attacker. The Kings, as many teams do, decided to exploit it with Viktor Arvidsson gliding to the empty net to pop in the game-sealing goal.

Well, not so fast, said Red Wing Dylan Larkin, who came in with the amazing, Don Beebe-esque save below.

The Red Wings, indeed, rode the momentum from Larkin’s unreal save into the game-tying goal from Oskar Sundqvist with just about 40 seconds to spare.

Detroit wound up falling in overtime 5-4, but as the team says, a point’s a point.

At the very least, the Red Wings are going to be playing that phenomenal Larkin save on the highlight reels all season. That’s the kind of spark that will follow you out of the rink for the rest of the year.

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Detroit Red Wings select Notre Dame’s Brennan Ali in NHL draft

Here’s a player to watch for the Irish during the upcoming season.

Notre Dame’s streak of having at least one player taken in the NHL draft will live for another year. When the Detroit Red Wings selected incoming freshman center [autotag]Brennan Ali[/autotag] with the 212th overall pick in the seventh round, it marked the latest in an Irish tradition that goes back to 2004 and 23 of the past 24 drafts. There now have been 92 draftees from Notre Dame, including 45 under [autotag]Jeff Jackson[/autotag].

Ali, who hails from Glencoe, Illinois, most recently played for the Lincoln Stars of the USHL, tallying two assists in nine games. What might have caught the Red Wings’ attention more was his season for Avon Old Farms in Connecticut. In 27 games, he scored 34 points, including 15 goals. He also had an assist in two games for the U.S. National U18 Team.

Best of luck to Ali as he prepares for his time in South Bend. Here’s hoping he’ll be an Irish legend when that time concludes.

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Red Wings’ goalie Alex Nedeljkovic accidentally scores on himself off tragic misplay

Oh no!

When it rains, it pours for Alex Nedeljkovic.

On Thursday, during the first period of a routine Detroit Red Wings and Minnesota Wild game, the unthinkable happened for a goaltender. On what seemed like a routine deflection that a netminder would stop… Nedeljkovic just beefed it big time, resulting in an own goal.

In an attempt to swat the puck to the corner to continue play, Nedeljkovic instead batted it right between his legs off the heel of his stick in the most tragic misplay possible. Seriously, this is as devastating as it gets as own goals go in the NHL. It’s not pretty.

Here’s a handful of other angles of the play because… yikes.

Yeah, that’s pretty tragic. In the midst of an already disappointing year for Nedeljkovic in net, that’s a back breaker for sure. But hey, this is absolutely a teaching moment here not to get too casual with the puck! I’m 100 percent sure Nedeljkovic will never make that mistake again.

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Devils’ Mason Geertsen seemingly tells Tyler Bertuzzi to ‘go get vaccinated’ in on-ice chirp

Mason Geertsen let Tyler Bertuzzi have it here.

Mason Geertsen saw his opportunity here and took it.

In the third period of Saturday’s game between the New Jersey Devils and Detroit Red Wings, Geertsen and Tyler Bertuzzi got involved with one another after the whistle. As the pair were being broken up by the officials, Geertsen skated away and seemingly told Bertuzzi to “go get vaccinated” at least twice.

Obviously, this chirp is in reference to Bertuzzi’s lack of vaccination status as the NHL’s lone unvaccinated player currently playing. Bertuzzi also spent time on the NHL’s COVID protocol list in early December, missing five games, the final three of which the Red Wings lost by a combined score of 18-7.

Here’s how the moment between the two went down on the ice.

Given the mass of postponements and shut downs across the NHL — and the sports world overall — it’s no surprise Bertuzzi’s vaccination status is being used as a chirp against him. Not only that, Bertuzzi has doubled down on staying unvaccinated after coming back from COVID protocol, stating that “obviously it sucks missing games, but it is what it is.”

In the games Bertuzzi has played, he’s been an incredibly effective player, posting 21 points (12 goals) in 23 games played. Bertuzzi even got the last laugh in Saturday’s game, posting two goals en route to the team’s 5-2 win over the Devils.

Still, you have to expect other NHLers won’t hold back on chirping Bertuzzi in much the same matter as Geertsen did, if they haven’t done so already.

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Graduate transfer Jack Adams headed to Notre Dame

The Irish have added to their roster.

Notre Dame is about to give a player with limited game action over the past couple years a chance to redeem that. Coach Jeff Jackson has announced that the Irish will add graduate transfer Jack Adams for the 2021-22 season. This comes after an injury sidelined Adams throughout the 2019-20 season and he transferred from Union to Providence for last season after COVID-19 forced Union to sit the season out. Adams is a 2017 sixth-round pick of the Detroit Red Wings.

Adams, who hails from Boxboro, Massachusetts, has scored 35 points, including 14 goals, over 72 collegiate games. All of his scoring came at Union as he failed to register a single point in six games at Providence.

Before college hockey, Adams played two seasons with the Fargo Force of the USHL. He had a breakout 2016-17 season there, scoring 37 goals and accumulation 60 points in 56 games. That team included new Irish teammate Michael Graham.

Alice Cooper debuts new Red Wings-inspired track, and it’s actually not bad

To Alice Cooper, no sport resembles rock and roll more than hockey.

Alice Cooper is debuting a new song inspired by the Detroit Red Wings fittingly titled, “Go Wings Go,” which is getting a national premiere when Detroit takes on the Tampa Bay Lightning Sunday afternoon on NBC.

Cooper has been a hockey buff since he was a young boy growing up in Detroit. To him, no sport resembles rock and roll more than hockey.

Cooper, a longtime resident of Arizona, has gone to countless Coyotes games every year. But while he’s rooted for the Coyotes, he grew up a Red Wings fan.

“I grew up in Hockeytown and when I was ‘this tall,’ my dad would take me to see Gordie Howe and Terry Sawchuk and Ted Lindsay and those guys,” Cooper said back in 2012. “Those were rough guys; there was blood on the ice every night.”

Take a look at a sneak peek of Cooper’s new track, which is actually quite catchy, at least to this Red Wings fan.

The reaction, as expected, was mixed. Some fans loved it…

While others weren’t a fan, which could have something to do with the fact it’s a song about the Red Wings.

While it might feel a little random that Cooper debuted a Red Wings-themed song, remember that, to him, hockey is the rock and roll of sports.

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