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#RedWings lose 4-2 vs. Minnesota in the prospects tournament opener...Zadina (PPG) and McIssac with Wings goals

— Ted Kulfan (@tkulfan) September 8, 2018 By the Numbers Prospects: Evgeny Svechnikov - RedWings.Com

The official Wings site profiles Svech and even with the tilt of being from the official Wings site, they have to address that this is a pretty damn big year for the kid in terms of make-or-break. I do like this snippet from a much more-complete quote included from Ben Simon:

"What I do know is Svech works way too hard and cares way too much to let that slide continue. He's a tremendous character player, he works extremely hard and if there is anyone who can dig himself out of that…