{"id":74159,"date":"2020-04-30T14:13:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T18:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=74159"},"modified":"2020-04-30T17:00:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T21:00:07","slug":"detroit-red-wings-sign-goalie-victor-brattstrom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/04\/30\/detroit-red-wings-sign-goalie-victor-brattstrom\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Red Wings Sign Goalie Victor Brattstrom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 19.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #222222;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/red-wings\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a> have signed goaltender, <strong>Victor Brattstrom<\/strong>, to a two-year, entry-level contract. Brattstrom, who was due to start next season in the Finnish Liiga joins the Red Wings for the 2020-21 season.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Detroit <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RedWings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#RedWings<\/a> today signed goaltender Victor Brattstrom to a two-year entry-level contract.<\/p>\n<p>Details: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OQ1nuetJ36\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/OQ1nuetJ36<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Fhz1bvEhkz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Fhz1bvEhkz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DetroitRedWings\/status\/1255587711009918977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"line-height: 30.0pt; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #111111;\">Victor Brattstrom signs with the Detroit Red Wings<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Brattstrom has been playing in Allsvenskan, Sweden\u2019s second tier for the past three seasons. In 60-career Allsvenskan appearances, Brattstrom has posted a 43-17 record with a 0.915 save percentage and 2.10 goals against average. He was originally drafted in the sixth round, 160<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0overall by the Detroit Red Wings at the 2018 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>The 6\u20195\u201d, 200-pound, Gothenburg, Sweden native has come off a successful 2019-20 season with Timra IK. Brattstrom played in 45 of 52 regular season games as the team finished third in the league. They also qualified for the playoffs and a chance at promotion to the SHL, Sweden&#8217;s premier division. Brattstrom earned a single season career-high, 33 wins, tied for first in the league. He also ranked second in GAA (2.13) and sixth in save percentage (0.914).<\/p>\n<p>Brattstrom played at the highest level in Sweden for just one year. This was during a miserable relegation campaign with Timra in which he won just five games. He departed from the SHL after posting a .898 save percentage and 2.81 GAA. He ranked among the bottom 10 goalies that year.<\/p>\n<p>Brattstrom hasn&#8217;t quite reached the level expected of him yet despite starting his career with great promise. He spent four seasons with Frolunda HC&#8217;s junior clubs, posting the top save percentage (0.930) in the under 18&#8217;s league. He then matched this feat (0.935) at the under 20 level after he had moved to Timra in 2016-17.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means For The Future<\/h3>\n<p>The Swedish goaltender bolsters the AHL pipeline for the Red Wings. However it is unlikely he features in the NHL roster next year thus leaving the goaltending position a curious one in Detroit.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/howarja02.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jimmy Howard<\/a><\/strong> is an unrestricted free agent this summer and unlikely to re-sign given his horrible year. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bernijo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan Bernier<\/a><\/strong> becomes a UFA next summer. And all the while Grand Rapids, Detroit&#8217;s farm team, don&#8217;t have someone excelling enough to push for NHL minutes. It seems that more is still to come on Detroit&#8217;s goalie situation.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"ck60sundSK1biyWiHjyEnw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1126981322\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'ck60sundSK1biyWiHjyEnw',sig:'24uPSx6YcFcbXeLJ4xb4hpfls5CvxCYGR59IE3cDRwQ=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1126981322',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Red Wings have signed goaltender, Victor Brattstrom, to a two-year, entry-level contract. Brattstrom, who was due to start next season in the Finnish Liiga joins the Red Wings for the 2020-21 season. The Detroit #RedWings today signed goaltender Victor Brattstrom to a two-year entry-level contract. Details: https:\/\/t.co\/OQ1nuetJ36 pic.twitter.com\/Fhz1bvEhkz &mdash; Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1733,"featured_media":74163,"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":[34,4],"tags":[95,4905,817,323,1507,4904],"class_list":["post-74159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-redwings","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-frolunda-hc","tag-jimmy-howard","tag-jonathan-bernier","tag-timra-ik","tag-victor-brattstrom"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74159","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\/1733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}