{"id":425022,"date":"2026-01-24T05:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T05:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/425022\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T05:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T05:56:12","slug":"red-wings-player-had-role-in-hollywood-film-dhn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/425022\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Wings Player Had Role In Hollywood Film \/ DHN"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his first season with the Detroit<\/a> Red Wings, James van Riemsdyk<\/a> has certainly proven to be a surprising star while filling a variety of roles for the team.<\/p>\n

During his days with the Philadelphia Flyers, van Riemsdyk<\/a> was also able to prove his adaptability to a different role. In the 2012 Judd Apatow film This Is 40<\/a>, van Riemsdyk and a few of his Flyers teammates shared a bar scene with actors Leslie Mann and Megan Fox.<\/p>\n

He even has a line in the film.<\/p>\n

Just don\u2019t call him a movie star.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think star is a pretty loose term,\u201d van Riemsdyk once said during an interview when he was playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was pretty cool. It kind of came up pretty randomly. I ended up shooting a couple of scenes, and both of them made it into the movie.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am in the Screen Actors Guild, so that\u2019s another thing on my resume.\u201d<\/p>\n

Versatility Makes JVR Valuable to the Red Wings<\/p>\n

JVR is fourth on the team with 14 goals. The 36-year-old left-winger has been a dominant presence at the net front on the power play. He\u2019s delivered the goods in a top-six role alongside Dylan Larkin and Lucas Raymond<\/a>, and in a bottom-six role, playing with centers like JT Compher and Nate Danielson before his reassignment to the AHL Grand Rapids Griffins.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s part of my role, and my job is to be able to do that,\u201d van Riemsdyk said. \u201cSo I think definitely the last few years I\u2019ve been doing a lot more of that than maybe earlier in my career. But I think that\u2019s what teams need if things get stale or flat, to be able to shift guys around a little bit and maybe create a spark or a different look that becomes important.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I try to again, be able to be able to play in different roles and maybe different situations, and we\u2019ve got a lot of good players to play, so it\u2019s fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Detroit\u2019s van Riemsdyk Adapts to Differing Roles<\/p>\n

Another feather in van Riemsdyk\u2019s cap is his ability to diversify his game to fit into the role he\u2019s been assigned.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s always, I think, foundations to anyone\u2019s game and their calling card, what you\u2019re trying to do,\u201d van Riemsdyk said. \u201cMaybe there\u2019s other subtleties, more chemistry-wise with guys. Where they like to go on the ice or where they like the puck, or what they\u2019re looking for strategy-wise to play the game. So some of that is just communication and repetition and things like that.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I think the more the year goes on, the more you get a chance to do that. I think you\u2019re able to develop that chemistry and make it work. I think that\u2019s important for a team, maybe to have some different looks. Again, especially as the year goes on, there might be different recipes that are needed to be successful against different teams.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his first season with the Detroit Red Wings, James van Riemsdyk has certainly proven to be a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5101],"tags":[599,1511,93,5137,58,5,4602,4,3358,5138],"class_list":{"0":"post-425022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-red-wings","8":"tag-detroit","9":"tag-detroit-hockey-now","10":"tag-detroit-red-wings","11":"tag-detroitredwings","12":"tag-featured","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-james-van-riemsdyk","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-red-wings","17":"tag-redwings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115948538036097600","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}