{"id":2014,"date":"2016-10-02T22:15:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T02:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2016-10-02T23:54:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T03:54:31","slug":"red-wings-make-first-round-roster-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2016\/10\/02\/red-wings-make-first-round-roster-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Wings Preseason: First Round of Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Early yesterday morning, the <\/span><b>Detroit Red Wings<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> announced that they had cut eleven players from preseason action. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UPDATE: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RedWings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#RedWings<\/a> trim roster by 11. Nine Players Sent to Griffins and Two Returned to Juniors: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ChFu7v4Euq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/ChFu7v4Euq<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rlh8msLpAd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/rlh8msLpAd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DetroitRedWings\/status\/782211581308313600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 1, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Red Wings Preseason: First Round of Cuts<\/h2>\n<h3>The Cuts<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Centerman <\/span><b>Dominic Turgeon<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and goalie <\/span><b>Jake Paterson<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were assigned to the <\/span><b>Grand Rapids Griffins<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Turgeon, a third round draft pick in 2014, captained the <\/span><b>Portland Winterhawks<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the <strong>WHL<\/strong> last season to a second round playoff exit and led the team in scoring with 69 points in 71 games. Traditionally used in a defensive role, Turgeon has proved that he has a huge offensive upside by putting up more and more points in every season that he plays. He&#8217;ll start the season in Grand Rapids. Paterson, a third round draft pick in 2012, spent most of last season with the <\/span><b>Toledo Walleye<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the <strong>ECHL<\/strong>. In his two games with the Griffins, he posted a .928 save percentage and 3.11 goals against average. Paterson will\u00a0back-up <strong>Jared Coreau<\/strong> in Grand Rapids this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Givani Smith<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <strong>F<\/strong><\/span><b>ilip Hronek<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, both second round draft picks from this summer\u2019s draft, have been assigned to their respective <strong>OHL<\/strong> teams. Smith played in two preseason games with the Red Wings. He logged one fight and two shots, playing around ten minutes in each game. While no one expected Smith to make the squad this year, it\u2019s good experience for him to play in an <strong>NHL<\/strong> atmosphere. At only eighteen years old, Smith has a lot of time to develop before he\u00a0becomes a regular\u00a0on the roster. Hronek played in one preseason game last week. His smooth skating and solid puck-moving skills make him an attractive asset on the blueline. <strong>Jeff Blashill<\/strong>, impressed with his play, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/sports\/nhl\/red-wings\/2016\/09\/30\/detroit-red-wings-filip-hronek\/91324098\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">felt that he showed a lot of offensive poise<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Cleary Remains With Griffins<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The remaining seven players released from their tryout contracts will join the Griffins for training camp. One of these players is Red Wings veteran <\/span><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/clearda01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dan Cleary<\/a><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who won the Cup with the team in 2008. Cleary was\u00a0kept around the team for the last couple of seasons because of his leadership in the dressing room. He\u2019s a good mentor for the young guys in Grand Rapids.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Coming Up<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Red Wings pre-season action continues today with a game against the <strong>Chicago Blackhawks<\/strong> at 6:00 PM EST. You can catch the game live on NHL Network.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early yesterday morning, the Detroit Red Wings announced that they had cut eleven players from preseason action. UPDATE: #RedWings trim roster by 11. Nine Players Sent to Griffins and Two Returned to Juniors: https:\/\/t.co\/ChFu7v4Euq pic.twitter.com\/rlh8msLpAd &mdash; Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) October 1, 2016 Red Wings Preseason: First Round of Cuts The Cuts Centerman Dominic Turgeon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1667,"featured_media":2031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,34],"tags":[632,95,626,631,630,100,37,627,343,38,98,628,629],"class_list":["post-2014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-redwings","category-news","tag-dan-cleary","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-dominic-turgeon","tag-filip-hronek","tag-givani-smith","tag-grand-rapids-griffins","tag-hockey","tag-jake-paterson","tag-jeff-blashill","tag-nhl","tag-ohl","tag-portland-winterhawks","tag-toledo-walleye"],"modified_by":"Zachary DeVine","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}