{"id":2269,"date":"2016-10-10T14:22:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T18:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=2269"},"modified":"2016-10-10T14:22:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T18:22:12","slug":"2269","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2016\/10\/10\/2269\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Wings&#8217; Teemu Pulkkinen Placed on Waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Detroit Red Wings <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">have placed forward <\/span><b>Teemu Pulkkinen<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on waivers. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"et\" dir=\"ltr\">DET puts Teemu Pulkkinen on waivers. <br \/>MTL puts Mike Condon on waivers<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSNBobMcKenzie\/status\/785511847730507776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 10, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pulkkinen is the second player placed on the waiver wire by the Red Wings, after <\/span><b>Martin Frk<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2016\/10\/09\/2239\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> was claimed by the Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday morning<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Teemu Pulkkinen Placed on Waivers<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Placing Pulkkinen on waivers means that one of either <\/span><b>Anthony Mantha<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or <\/span><b>Andreas Athanasiou<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have made the team. While this is encouraging for these two promising youngsters, losing Pulkkinen is a huge blow. At 24-years-old, Pulkkinen recorded 12 points in 36 games for the Red Wings last season. He\u2019s got a wicked shot, though at times inaccurate. He was given an opportunity in 2015-16 to be an everyday NHL player and started to come into his own with six goals before an injury set him back for the rest of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pulkkinen\u2019s been a victim of the Red Wings bottleneck at forward, which is being clogged up by veteran players. In 2014-16, Pulkkinen recorded 61 points in 46 games for the <\/span><b>Grand Rapids Griffins<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. All he did was set the team rookie record for goals with 31 in his first full AHL season then break his own record with 34 the next year. Pulkkinen&#8217;s ceiling\u00a0is so high that he\u2019ll surely be claimed. The <\/span><b>Toronto Maple Leafs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have first right of refusal on him. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Frustration in Hockeytown<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This should add to the frustration of fans who continue to try to understand roster moves such as these. How do <\/span><b>Steve Ott<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Drew Miller<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have a roster spot on this team while Pulkkinen and Frk are dismissed of? The frustration is even fueled even more by the fact that they were lost for nothing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not to mention that <\/span><b>Tomas Jurco<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, currently on the IR, will have to be dealt with once he\u2019s healthy. Red Wings general manager <\/span><b>Ken Holland<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will have to orchestrate some trades in order to not lose any more promising prospects to the wire.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Final Roster To Be Set By Tuesday<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we inch closer to Tuesday\u2019s 5:00 PM deadline to have the final rosters set, one can\u2019t help but wonder what other questionable moves Holland and his coaching staff will make. Stay tuned here as we\u2019ll be covering all of the action.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/518270636\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 69.696970% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/518270636?et=BWmjLjy6QJFRh8wJRodT0Q&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=6k4oZXMAPK-YE3quUMO6m8uzbTZjBWmefnBfLkYXQXs=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"414\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Red Wings have placed forward Teemu Pulkkinen on waivers. DET puts Teemu Pulkkinen on waivers. MTL puts Mike Condon on waivers &mdash; Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) October 10, 2016 Pulkkinen is the second player placed on the waiver wire by the Red Wings, after Martin Frk was claimed by the Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1667,"featured_media":2288,"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],"tags":[95,37,571,677,38,686],"class_list":["post-2269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-redwings","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-hockey","tag-ken-holland","tag-martin-frk","tag-nhl","tag-teemu-pulkkinen"],"modified_by":"Griffin Schroeder (Associate Editor)","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269","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=2269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}