Red Wings: Grand Rapids Griffins Opening Night Roster

The Detroit Red Wings AHL affiliate, the Grand Rapids Griffins, will open the 2021-22 season on Friday night at home against the Rockford Ice Hogs (Chicago)  Game time at Van Andel is            7:00 PM ET.

On Saturday, the Griffins will travel to play the Milwaukee  Admirals (Nashville).  Game time is  7:00 PM ET.

To start the season, the Griffins will have 22 players on the roster: 13 forwards, seven defensemen, and two goaltenders.  Seven players drafted by Detroit will be in the opening night lineup.

Here is the complete roster to start the season.

Goaltenders (2)

#1 Victor Brattstrom, 2018 round 6 #160 overall by Detroit Red Wings/Signed

#31 Calvin Pickard, Detroit Red Wings/Signed

Defensemen (7)

#3 Jared McIsaac, 2018 round 2 #36 overall by Detroit Red Wings/Signed

#6 Ryan Murphy, Detroit Red Wings/Signed

#18 Brian Lashoff “C”, Detroit Red Wings/Signed

#20 Dan Renouf, Detroit Red Wings/Signed

#28 Luke Witkowski, Detroit Red Wings/Signed

#37 Donovan Sebrango, 2020 round 3 #63 overall by Detroit Red Wings/Signed

#40 Wyatt Newpower, Detroit Red Wings/Signed

Forwards (13)

#9 Patrick Curry-LW, Grand Rapids Griffins/Signed

#11 Riley Barber-RW, Detroit Red Wings/Signed

#15 Turner Elson-LW/RW “A”, Grand Rapids Griffins/Signed

#17 Taro Hirose-LW, Detroit Red Wings/Signed

#21 Dennis Yan-LW, Grand Rapids Griffins/Signed

#22 Chase Pearson-C, 2015 round 5 #140 overall by Detroit Red Wings/Signed

#32 Tyler Spezia-C, Grand Rapids Griffins/Signed

#38 Hayden Verbeek-C, Grand Rapids Griffins/Signed

#48 Jonatan Berggren-LW/RW, 2018 round 2 #33 overall by Detroit Red Wings/Signed

#65 Dominik Shine-RW, Grand Rapids Griffins/Signed

#71 Jon Martin-RW, Grand Rapids Griffins/Signed

#79 Kirill Tyutyayev-LW, 2019 round 7 #190 overall by Detroit Red Wings/Unsigned

#90 Joe Veleno-C, 2018 round 1 #30 overall by Detroit Red Wings/Signed

Injured Reserve (2)

#26 Seth Barton (Injured Reserve), 2018 round #3 81 overall by Detroit Red Wings/Signed

#51 Kyle Criscuolo-C “A”, (Injured Reserve), Detroit Red Wings/Signed