It’s no longer a pointless KHL season for Detroit Red Wings forward prospect Dmitri Buchelnikov. In his fourth game with CSKA Moscow, Buchelnikov got on the board.
The winger selected 52nd overall by the Red Wings in the 2022 NHL entry draft drew an assist on a goal by former Red Wings forward Daniel Sprong. Sprong scored a hat-trick in the game.
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However, CSKA Moscow would squander a 5-2 lead and lose 6-5 in a shootout to Moscow Spartak.
Praise For Red Wings Pick Genborg
Two games into his SHL tenure with Timra, the compliments keep on flowing about the game of 2025 Red Wings second-round draft pick Eddie Genborg.
“I have a weakness for Eddie Genborg’s unyielding and intense play,” said Swedish TV analyst and former AHL defenseman Sanny Lindstrom.
He scored his first goal of the season as Timra whipped Linköping 5-2. Genborg spent the previous three seasons with Linköping.
“It was a little bounce that I got a touch on,” Genborg told Swedish website Aftonbladet of his goal. “You have to have a little luck.”
According to his teammates, luck has nothing to do with Genborg’s success on the ice.
“An incredibly nice player,” Timra veteran forward Jonathan Dahlen said. “He is incredibly talented.
“It’s fun with the younger guys. You learn some new sayings and stuff, so you feel a little old. But you get a lot of energy from them.
“Eddie is awesome.”
The Professor Assembles A Russian Grind Line
While part of the famous Russian Five of the Red Wings, Igor Larionov was regularly witness to the work of another memorable Detroit forward unit. He watched the Grind Line display their tenacity every game night.
Now head coach of SKA St. Petersburg of the KHL, Larionov is feeling a sense of deja vu. He thinks that he’s assembled a Russian version of the Grind Line.
Big hits. Big goals.
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Nikita Dishkovsky, 22, Matvey Korotky, 19, and Matvey Polyakov, 22, are three components of this unit.
“Dishkovsky plays a certain role on the team,” Larionov said. “He and Polyakov and Korotky form an energy line, just like they once did in Detroit.
“They’re the kind of line that will really grind it out.”
High praise, indeed. And much too early in arrival, according to these players who are being compared to Kris Draper, Kirk Maltby, Joe Kocur (and later) Darren McCarty.
“It’s too early to compare us with that Detroit trio,” Dishkovsky told Russian website Sport-Express. “There’s nothing to say. Everyone already knows about their achievements.
“So we’re just trying, playing, and then we’ll see what happens.”
Honors For Former Griffins Goalie
Patrick Rybar, the goalie for Gerard Gallant’s Shanghai Dragons, was named goaltender of the week in the KHL. It’s the third time in his career that Rybar has received this recognition. In the past week, he saved 92.92 percent of the shots he faced in three games.
The Slovakian netminder was in goal for 37 games with the AHL Grand Rapids Griffins during the 2018-19 season.