{"id":589170,"date":"2026-06-02T07:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T07:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/589170\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T07:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T07:03:16","slug":"red-wings-organization-loses-key-griffins-scorer-as-forward-departs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/589170\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Wings Organization Loses Key Griffins Scorer As Forward Departs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reaching 42 total points in 64 regular season games with the Grand Rapids Griffins, forward Eduards Tralmaks has signed a contract in Czechia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caas-show-transcript\">View More<\/p>\n<p>Video Transcript<\/p>\n<p>And our number one team, the best Stanley Cup winner in the salary cap era, we have the 2008 Detroit Red Wings.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>So Ryan, the Red Wings from 2008, that&#8217;s a team that defeated Sidney Crosby and the Penguins, who ended up going to the final the year after and exacting revenge.<\/p>\n<p>But that, that Red Wings team got the most, first place votes.<\/p>\n<p>what made them so great in your mind?<\/p>\n<p>Well, you know, I think you look at those Red Wings teams at the time and just the, the depth of talent they had was incredible.<\/p>\n<p>And when I looked at this list, it wasn&#8217;t only the run that they had in that particular year, although the Red Wings did have an incredible run, I mean, they marched through that, that cup, tournament.<\/p>\n<p>But also, like how many Hall of Famers did you have, right?<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>And, you know, you look at Detroit headlined by Nicklas Lidstrom, I mean, they had one of the greatest defensemen of all time.<\/p>\n<p>So I, I actually had that team fourth on my personal list.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>But I will say, like, it was a pretty tight group, at the top and, you know, it- almost interchangeable, I would say.<\/p>\n<p>And y- a- again, you know, you look at all the names that Detroit had at the time, certainly a worthy winner.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that, that was two years after Stevie Y retired, and you mentioned Nicklas Lidstrom captained the team to Stanley Cup.<\/p>\n<p>I think he was the first Swedish captain, maybe first European captain to win a Stanley Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>But Datsyuk was a Selke, Lady Byng and the Plus Minus Award winner that year.<\/p>\n<p>You had Zetterberg in his prime.<\/p>\n<p>You had The Mule, Johan Franzen, Kris Chelios, Nicklas Kronwall, and Brian Rafalski were on your back end.<\/p>\n<p>And a goaltending tandem that included not only Dominik Hasek but, Chris Osgood as well.<\/p>\n<p>that tandem won the William Jennings Award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caas-hide-transcript\">Close<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After reaching 42 total points in 64 regular season games with the Grand Rapids Griffins, forward Eduards Tralmaks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5101],"tags":[599,93,5137,7058,1546,5,4,3358,5138,65544],"class_list":["post-589170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-red-wings","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-detroitredwings","tag-eduards-tralmaks","tag-grand-rapids-griffins","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-red-wings","tag-redwings","tag-total-points"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116679239509686529","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589170","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=589170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}