DETROIT \u2013 The Detroit Red Wings have reassigned forward Jesse Kiiskinen to the American Hockey League\u2019s Grand Rapids Griffins from HPK (Liiga).<\/p>\n
Kiiskinen, 20, has spent the 2025-26 season with HPK in Finland\u2019s Liiga, recording 28 points (17-11-28) and 13 penalty minutes in 54 regular-season games. The 6-foot-1, 190-pound forward also tallied four points (1-3-4) and two penalty minutes in nine postseason contests. Kiiskinen played the entire 2024-25 campaign with HPK, logging 44 points (14-30-44), a plus-six rating and 30 penalty minutes in 46 regular-season games. His 44 points were the most of any under-20 skater in Finland\u2019s top professional league. Originally selected by the Nashville Predators in the third round (68th overall) of the 2023\u00a0NHL Entry Draft, Kiiskinen has totaled 83 points (35-48-83), a plus-three rating and 53 penalty minutes in 145 regular-season games with Lahti Pelicans and HPK since 2022-23.<\/p>\n
A native of\u00a0Hollola, Finland, Kiiskinen racked up 89 points (47-42-89) and 14 penalty minutes in 79 games with the Pelicans\u2019 under-20 squad, in addition to 38 points (19-19-38) and 10 penalty minutes in 31 games with the under-18 team and 30 points (15-15-30) and 18 penalty minutes in 28 games at the under-16 level. On the international stage, Kiiskinen was a silver medalist at the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship, collecting seven points (6-1-7) in seven games. Kiiskinen also represented his country at the 2023 IIHF World Under-18 Championship, recording five points (3-2-5) and two penalty minutes in five games. He also captured a bronze medal with Finland at the 2022 Hlinka Gretzky Cup, notching four points (2-2-4) in five appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT \u2013 The Detroit Red Wings have reassigned forward Jesse Kiiskinen to the American Hockey League\u2019s Grand Rapids…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5101],"tags":[599,93,5137,5,4,3358,5138],"class_list":{"0":"post-549548","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-red-wings","10":"tag-detroitredwings","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-red-wings","14":"tag-redwings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116380517288995690","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549548","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=549548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}