I have listed the players or picks related to the Red Wings. Also, I was able to read this without a Paywall.

Tier 1: Premium young assets

Michael Brandsegg-Nygård, RW, Detroit Red Wings:

Brandsegg-Nygård is a heavy winger with good offensive skills and a great shot. He projects as a middle-six forward who coaches will love.

Nate Danielson, C, Detroit Red Wings:

Danielson is a quality two-way center with a legit combination of size, speed and hands. His scoring has been inconsistent, although he’s been quite good at the AHL level this season.

Tier 2: Strong B-level assets

Carter Bear, C/W, Detroit Red Wings:

Detroit’s 2025 first-round pick (13th) is a competitive winger with good feet and offensive skills and has been a prominent junior scorer with a game that should translate to the pros.

Sebastian Cossa, G, Detroit Red Wings:

Cossa has been a top goalie in the AHL this season. He’s a huge goalie who can move, and while he’s been quite inconsistent over the years, if Detroit decides to dangle one of him or Trey Augustine, the 2021 No. 15 pick’s toolkit will be highly intriguing to teams.

Eddie Genborg, LW, Detroit Red Wings:

Genborg has been quite good in the SHL as an 18-year-old. He’s a tall, highly physical winger whose offense has surprised even some of his biggest backers.

Draft picks: Detroit still has their 2026 first-round pick.

Tier 3: B-grade assets

Trey Augustine, G, Detroit Red Wings:

Augustine, like Cossa, is a quality goalie prospect in the Wings system. He’s been great in college and has high-end hockey sense, but his pure tools don’t jump out at you.

Draft picks: Detroit has their 2027 first-round pick.

Tier 4: Quality trade chips

Max Plante, LW, Detroit Red Wings

Draft picks: Detroit has their 2026 second-round pick.

20 comments

  1. If Trey is viewed as a B grade asset I’m not moving him. No matter what. I have goalie trust issues. Give me them all.

  3. “He’s been great in college and has high-end hockey sense, but his pure tools don’t jump out at you.”

    If this guy high? Treys mechanics are amazing. Maybe he’s just being lazy and referring to his height?

  4. While any of these would hurt there’s no way we fit them all on our eventual roster. I’d hope if we include pieces to this degree it would be part of a package and the return a game changer for this year and hopefully next year or longer. I’d try to avoid having to move a goalie you just never know who’s going to pan out and we need a long term solution out of those 2 guys.

  6. Cossa and Augustine as B level…. Automatically this person has no credibility.

    Reporters league wide have been saying absolutely brain dead shit about our prospects and roster players this season. Maybe this is why we don’t see deals get done – maybe other GMs happen to be this delusional as well.

    PS: Plante as a tier 4…. 19 year old leading the NCAA in scoring.

    Let me guess, they rank McKenna as an A level elite prospect, but at just 1 year younger, is getting blown out by Plante in the scoring race.

  7. lol Augustine is so low??? He is rocking a near 940 save % in the NCAA. That is elite

  8. I don’t think trading any of your stud goalie prospects is a good idea. A good goalie is nearly impossible to come by, and even the good ones aren’t good every year. You need as many in the system as possible.

  9. What this article shows is that the Wings have a load of assets that can be used for potential trades. Prospects that other teams will want. I doubt it’s a coincidence that the top ranked Wings on this list played in the NHL this year. Anyone not there yet is an unproven commodity with greater uncertainty in their projection.

  10. “Teir 4 quality trade chips”
    Max Plante slander will not be tolerated. If leading the NCAA in points in a “quality trade chips” Pronman is off his rocker.

  11. This article shouldn’t surprise anyone whose read Pronmans columns over the years. He’s re-used player breakdowns from past articles and isn’t intimately knowledgeable with every team’s players and prospects, it’s impossible to expect otherwise.

  12. Pronman doing what he does best: generating conversation amongst fanbases about how much better the prospects are than he gives them credit for and why he’s wrong.

  13. IMO, Pronman doesn’t do great at post-draft prospect rankings so I’d take this article with a block of salt.

  14. They should trade ASP. He’s never going to get the PP1 time he needs with Seider as a righty.

  16. His writing lacks so much. His only descriptors are “good”, “pretty good”. He comes off as an uninformed casual more than a professional writer/analyst.

  18. Wonder if we could package mazur and Tuomisto and a draft pick for a D that would be an upgrade. I like ASP but needed this year in AHL to balance out O/D 5v5… would Tyler myers fit on wings for a cheap upgrade without giving up the farm. I think so. Would help draw some heavy minutes off seider.

  19. I view Cossa and then probably Augustine as our best prospects not currently playing on the Red Wings so… don’t completely agree with this list

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