The Detroit Red Wings kicked off their 2025-26 season against the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday night. However, the Red Wings certainly did not get the results they had hoped for in the matchup. This is because the Red Wings lost to the Canadiens by a 5-1 final score.

The Ducks’ big contract for Jackson LaCombe sets a market benchmark that could push the <a href=" Wings to prioritize an early, high-value extension for young defenseman Simon Edvinsson.

(WXYZ) — The Detroit Red Wings have finalized their 23-man roster ahead of the 2025-26 season, which begins Thursday. Detroit will carry 13 forwards, eight defensemen and two goaltenders to start the season. The roster will include three rookies – Axel Sandin Pellikka, Michael Brandsegg-Nygard and Emmitt Finnie.

A Detroit Red Wings insider gave a promising update to a young defenseman ahead of the season and his role with the team.

The <a href=" Red Wings waive defenseman Justin Holl and Erik Gustafsson on Sunday, clearing space for a top prospect to potentially make the team.

Yzerman mentioned Lucas Raymond, who earned his way onto Detroit’s 2021-22 Opening Night roster and finished his rookie campaign with 57 points (23 goals, 34 assists) in 82 games, as an example of that process playing itself out.

A few Detroit Red Wings prospects made the opening night roster, but it forces another one of their younger forwards out.

Detroit Red Wings fans who wanted to see more of a youth movement in the upcoming 2025-26 NHL campaign, which officially begins for them on Thursday, have gotten their wish.

1. Of all three youngsters, it was Brandsegg-Nygård who had the loudest finish to the exhibition campaign. He played on a line with Andrew Copp and J.T. Compher in Saturday’s finale and scored twice, first right at the edge of the blue paint off a slick feed from Compher and then on a power-play one-timer from Sandin-Pellikka.

Edmonton Oilers defenseman Jake Walman is in the final year of a three-year, $10.2 million contract he originally signed with the Detroit Red Wings.

" young defense is the reason why Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman believes the <a href=" Wings likely won't make the playoffs this upcoming season.