This is a make it or break it year for Theodor Niederbach in terms of his future as a Detroit Red Wings prospect. One game into the SHL season with MoDo Hockey, Niederbach is already being dealt a bad break.
Naturally, when they look to the future dream team, Red Wings fans are projecting several of the club’s top prospects to be part of the future in any Detroit success story.
Among the many talented prospects inside the Detroit Red Wings’ farm system, one skater to watch down the stretch could be forward Theodor Niederbach, who’s currently playing some of the best hockey of his career in the Swedish Hockey League.
Even the most casual fan of the Detroit Red Wings knows that the pipeline to Motown more often than not goes through Sweden/Scandinavia. Players like Nicklas Lidstrom, Niklas Kronwall and Henrik Zetterberg represented Sweden with pride during their time with the Red Wings, and the current generation of Red Wings are continuing that trend.
A quartet of Detroit Red Wings prospects took the ice on Monday at the 2022 IIHF World Junior Championship, with each of them helping their respective teams earn at least a point.
Detroit Red Wings prospect Theodor Niederbach scored his second goal in as many games early in Monday’s contest against Team Slovakia. With Team Sweden on its first power play of the game, Niederbach received a pass from William Eklund in the slot and hammered the puck past Slovak goaltender Simon Latkoczy to open the scoring.
Shortly after Simon Edvinsson became the first Detroit Red Wings prospect to score at the 2022 IIHF World Junior Championship, fellow Detroit draft picks Theodor Niederbach and Donovan Sebrango tallied in wins for their respective teams on the opening day of the tournament.
Detroit Red Wings prospects Simon Edvinsson and Theodor Niederbach have been selected to play for Team Sweden at the 2022 IIHF World Juniors. The Red Wings selected Edvinsson, 18, with the sixth-overall pick at the 2021 draft.
The Detroit Red Wings have plenty of top-tier players in their pipeline – and one who has garnered a lot of attention from the fanbase: Theodor Niederbach.
With the 51st selection in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft, the Detroit Red Wings selected from Frölunda H.C., Theodor Niederbach. The selection made by Kris Draper on October 7, 2020, might have sounded something as though the NHL not been forced into a post-Covid, virtual, socially-distanced draft.
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