2025-26 NHL Prospect Pool Breakdown: Detroit Red Wings’ Top 10

2025-26 NHL Prospect Pool Breakdown: Detroit Red Wings’ Top 10

Welcome back. It’s time for Daily Faceoff’s third annual NHL Prospect Pool Breakdown, looking at the best all 32 teams have to offer. We’re highlighting the top 10 prospects for every franchise, their biggest strengths and weaknesses, and so much more. The criteria for being labeled a “prospect” are simple: players generally have to have played in 50 or fewer NHL games or spent more time outside of the NHL than in it last year. Players over 23 y…

Allen’s top 10 Red Wings prospects (and their estimated times of arrival)

Mid-summer is usually a time for list-making in the hockey world, and Detroit Hockey Now’s Kevin Allen has compiled a list of his top 10 Detroit Red Wings prospects, including their estimated time of arrival on the Wings’ NHL roster. It’s a subscriber-only story, however, so here’s a peek behind the paywall: 1. Defenseman Axel Sandin Pellikka (17th, 2023) The hope that Sandin Pellikka could come to Red Wings training camp, win a job and become …