TEMPE, Ariz. — Jonatan Berggren will get an opportunity to show he ought to be a daily for the Detroit Crimson Wings.
Having traded away a ahead at Friday’s deadline with out bringing one again, the Wings appeared to their organizational depth for reinforcement and deliberate to name up Jonatan Berggren after they play the Golden Knights on Saturday in Las Vegas.
“Hopefully we get a bit spark,” coach Derek Lalonde stated after Friday’s 4-0 loss on the Arizona Coyotes. That got here hours after the Wings shipped out Klim Kostin; the commerce and Dylan Larkin’s lower-body damage left them one wanting the same old 12 forwards.
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Berggren, 23, already has appeared in 9 video games with the Wings this season, producing two targets and three assists. Final season, his rookie yr, Berggren contributed 15 targets and 13 assists in 67 video games. Even with such a stable output, the Wings despatched him to the Grand Rapids Griffins to open the 2023-24 season as a result of they needed him to work on protection.
He is completed that with the Griffins, combining 46 factors in 43 video games with an excellent ranking.
Larkin is out a minimum of till mid-March, so Berggren tasks to have a stable alternative to show this call-up, his fifth of the season, right into a everlasting keep. He solely wants to seem in 4 extra NHL video games to lose his waiver-exempt standing — as soon as he performs 80 video games (he was at 76 coming into Saturday), the 2018 second-round choose is probably going to stick with the Wings.
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