Detroit 4, Toronto 0: How Red Wings won season debut

Mrazek’s heroics were rewarded late as the Red Wings rallied for a 4-3 victory Saturday in Carolina. This youth movement has been going on the better part of the last three seasons and continues with hot shot prospect Dylan Larkin.

Despite being the second game in as many nights, the Red Wings won’t be changing up any of their skaters.

Larkin, a 2014 first-round pick, drew two defenders as he skated down the middle of the ice and Abdelkader took advantage of the space to score his third goal 3:54 into the second period.

Pulkkinen, who led the AHL in scoring with 34 goals last season with Grand Rapids, was unchecked in front of the crease, beating Canes goalie Cam Ward for his first goal and tying the game at2.

New acquisition from the Chicago Blackhawks Brad Richards suited up for the White team, and is developing chemistry on his new team. Larkin even hinted as much in a interview.

“It’s good to hear a new voice in the locker room”, Franzen said. The “kids” weren’t called up until the injuries required them to be. He made 44 saves and kept the Red Wings in the game early, when the Hurricanes were outshooting Detroit badly. Losing DeKeyser hurts but it’s not a killer for the Red Wings. The defense pairs shape up as Niklas Kronwall with Jonathan Ericsson, Mike Green with Kyle Quincey and Brendan Smith with Jakub Kindl.

The Wings could also bring up one of their many young prospect defensemen such as Xavier Ouellete and Ryan Sproul. He was injured just 47 seconds into the Carolina Hurricanes’ season-opening game against the Nashville Predators on Thursday night.

While they finished with 22 shots on goal, the Maple Leafs were unable to produce any consistent offensive efforts or establish a presence in front of Howard. Like I said, it’s been a long summer.

“I don’t know if I believe in the top six”. You don’t have to be the second coming of Toe Blake to figure out Larkin is one of those players, and realize how fortunate the Red Wings are he fell to them at 15th overall in the ’14 draft. I think that’s probably true in most of the cities in the National Hockey League.

When Babcock was considering leaving the Red Wings, he questioned who would replace 37-year-old Pavel Datsyuk and 35-year-old Henrik Zetterberg near the ends of their careers.

The highly talented and highly touted Dylan Larkin looked extremely comfortable and confident in his National Hockey League debut while simultaneously breaking the mold of traditional Detroit prospects we have all come to know. Also, for the first time in a while the Wings may have a goaltending controversy if they don’t already have one. We played real hard, got a lot of looks, a lot of chances and weren’t able to capitalize enough. “He was in a great situation at Western Michigan and had the security of I think a four or five year contract and did a good job of getting them into the NCAA Tournament”.