Red Wings Rookie who use net front advantages

Detroit – trainer emphasize how important it is that the players go online, but it is easier to bring them there is easier than done.

Not with Marco Kasper. The Rookie Red Wings in Detroit goes online and stays there. And he is rewarded for it.

“Really good because they tend to come as a Star player who has the puck on the outside of the circumference and plays games,” said coach Todd McLellan. “He is now learning to go there, does a really good job and if he understands the reward that it exists when he goes there at a young age, he will probably continue for years.”

Kasper’s net front redirection of JT COMPHER’s Pass turned out to be a winner on Saturday in the 2-0 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning.

The top election of the team in the draft of 2022 has benefited from the change of coaching and takes the chance to play with Dylan Larkin and Lucas Raymond. He has five goals and three templates in his last eight games.

“Playing with LARKS and RAZOR (online), I try to reach to open up space to play a little more, to have the puck,” said Kasper. “Try to go online, create offensive from there and hunt pucks for shots.

“We are shooting a lot more. That means you have to get into the net because the puck gets much more there. You have more chances of scoring goals. To be there too and to support my teammates in front of rebounds. I think I can now play all types of roles. I just try to work to get a little more online and create an insult. “

McLellan described Kasper (6-1, 183) as heavy, directly, with an intensity for him, a player who complements Larkin and Raymond well because “they can play around with the puck and allow him to become free.”

McLellan said that playing against top players forces Kasper to be spicy constantly every evening.

“Playing with good players, getting more ice age, which leads to more chances,” said McLellan. “If you only get eight minutes a night, you will probably sit on the bench that have taken care of these eight minutes and are switched on. If you play (above), you don’t even have time to think. You come back to the bank, you are tired, you jump out again.

“But he finds his way online. He gets good looks and good opportunities. His trust must be high at the moment. If we can make him do it over the course of the year, just a single and he continues to grow and give nothing back, he will be a great player. “

McLellan said Kasper’s move to the wing would probably be temporary. At some point they would like him again in the middle.

“But at the moment we want to play it up there and have so much experience against some of the best players in the world,” said McLellan. “In front of Quentin Byfield (in Los Angeles), Logan Couture (in San Jose), some of the players who came in and went to these places and then declined. And that is probably the plan for (Kasper), but we will only take it every day. Maybe he has the puck a little less often on his stick because Larkin and Raymond have so much. Someone has to go in and loosen and prepare and create it. “