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The Daily: Griffins Score 10 vs. Texas; Seider Soars
The Grand Rapids Griffins’ early-season AHL dominance continued Tuesday when they turned hat tricks by Eduards Tralmaks and Dominik Shine into a 10-1 triumph against the Texas Stars.
The margin of victory was the largest in franchise history, and it marked the first time the team has generated two hat tricks in a single game. Shine also added an assist for a four-point game. Defenseman Antti Tuomisto (one goal, three assists) also had the first four-point game of his career. Thirteen different players put up a point in the game, and eight posted multiple points.
Dropped a dime on the stat sheet 💸 @MichelobULTRA | #GoGRG pic.twitter.com/SaVi77n5Me
— Grand Rapids Griffins (@griffinshockey) November 26, 2025
That included Michael Brandsegg-Nygard who showed a goal and an assist. Goalie Sebastian Cossa made 19 saves to become the eighth goalie in Griffins’ history to win 50 games for the team.
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After seven games, Cossa now has a 1.58GAA and a.941SV%. Maybe it’s time to send Gibson to GR for a “conditioning” stint and see what Cossa can do in Detroit for a couple of games.
And when he makes the drive to Detroit, Cossa can bring along Tralmaks (9+1=10), Leonard (12+8=20), and Shine (9+6=15). Then Gibson can take Copp, Ras, and JVR with him to GR. The only problem with that (other than league rules/waivers/etc.) is that it would screw up the Griffins great start to the season.
All fantasy aside, Yzerman needs to do something positive. This idea that “the future is bright” is getting pretty old.
Older two things. I’m not convinced that Cossa would do any better behind this Red Wing team with their crappy defense and bad overall team play. Two Lenoard and shine are not prospects they are older guys who are career minor leaguer. Trademarks would be worth a look. The Red Wings have been playing like this for at least five years. It doesn’t matter who the goalies are. Coach Todd is doing a good job but he only has about 6 players. The rests are vets with big contracts who are along for the ride. I like the rookies but they can only do so much. Older a part of the prob is we have too many of these kinds of vets. You can’t send them to Grand Rapids because there are too many there already. The Griffs can only play six vets in each game and they have eight or nine there so some guys have to sit in the stands every game. Nobody wants them in trade . It’s kind of a mess
I think you missed the part where I admitted it couldn’t happen because of league rules and the reality of the Griffins’ situation. As I said, it’s a fantasy idea.
As for Leonard and Shine, neither can be any worse than JVR and Ras/Copp. Shine deserves another shot, and it would be nice to see if Leonard’s play has improved enough to translate to the NHL. Again, it would be nice to find out.
Shine is a better center and a harder player than Copp. And Leonard can’t possibly be worse than JVR. But it’ll take a Copp/Ras trade or a JVR waiver to make any of that happen.
I can’t imagine how frustrated McLellan, Larkin, Raymond, Kane, etc. must be with the way so many on the team are playing. If Larkin’s contract was up at the end of the year, I don’t think there’s any way he’d resign with the Wings. Happily for us, and sadly for him, he’s a Wing for the next 7-1/2 years.
OTC I hear what you are saying but agree with Tom. Shine and Leonard are career minor leaguers although like you posted, they are probably better than JVR, Raz/Coop/Compher/Sod. The players I would like to see given a chance are Mazur(when ready) Lombardi and MBN . Enough of keeping prospects in the minors till they get moldy. Case in point would be Tuomisto. He was drafted in 2019 and as bad as our defence is we still don’t know what he could do. I mean is it possible that he could be worst than Docker, Hamonic etc. Give him a chance and if it doesn’t work them move on from him.