Hi everybody and welcome to Episode 84 of Red Wings Rant hosted by the Brothers of Discussion and brought to you by the Hockey Podcast Network.  Tirades and impassioned pleas about your Detroit Red Wings, finally, have a home.

Today we have the gem of the Red Wings Analytics community, Prashanth Iyer. He is the host of Wings for Breakfast, contributor to Winging it in Motown, co-creator of Meta Hockey, and you can find him spittin’ truths on Twitter @Iyer_Prashanth.

We are also continuing our Rochester Mills 12 Days of Christmas sampling with the Michigan Maple Stout, ‘Paul Woods’ returns to play Who is That Pokemon, we take another look at our Red Wings playing in Europe, vomit on the Reverse Retros, analyze Bobby Ryan’s future trade situation and play Be the GM!

Rochester Mills 12 Days of Christmas - Maple Stout

The Brothers of Discussion are excited and proud to present their first beer tasting of the network. We’re going festive for the holiday season and decided to sample Rochester Mills’ 12 Days of Christmas Beer Package. The Brothers will be tasting the beers for a flavor match to the beer’s name, drinkability, the packaging, and provide an overall score (weighted by the drinkability).

Rochester Mills is a Michigan Brewery, famous in the state for its 12 Days of Christmas Box Set. Release on an annual basis, the brewery tinkers with the list of 12 beers, but always follows through with a smooth, milk-like base. 

Second, on the list is Michigan Maple Stout.

Red Wings Prospect Update

The graph above was shared online by today’s guest, Prashanth Iyer. Prashanth’s image illustrates player performance through four different quadrants. Each quadrant having a grade of either good or bad offense and/or good or bad defense.

While three of the Red Wings’ prospects fall under ‘Good Offense’ and ‘Good Defense’, it is great to see that all members fall under ‘Good Defense’. Albert Johansson and Joe Veleno being the odd men out on ‘Good Offense’.

THis is all good news here while you can’t ask for much more from your prospect group, considering there is always room to grow. The fantastic results, however, from Moritz Seider start to spell a completely different story. Is Seider ready for the NHL?

Seider is showing he could be ready, with his recent SHL performance. And the SHL is nothing to sneeze at, so there is very little to qualify here in regards to what we can read from it. Sure, the level of play isn’t at NHL standards, but to the length that Seider is dominating, one could easily determine he is ready to be tested in an NHL setting.

What else is ON TAP?

Reverse Retro

NHL vs NBA - Exhibit double Z

1. NY Rangers selected Alexis Lafrenière 1st overall and gave him a max ELC deal worth $11.3m, however only $517.5k is guaranteed (SB + minor).

2. Minnesota T-wolves selected Anthony Edwards 1st overall yesterday. He'll sign a max RSC deal worth $44.2m of which $20.0m is guaranteed.

We also PLAY

BE THE GM

and

Who is That Pokemon?