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Daily Red Wings therapy with real hockey teeth.
Locked On Red Wings tracks Detroit’s season with quick postgame emotion and practical fan analysis. Brian Fisher and Scotty Bentley turn blown leads, prospect debates, goalie swings, and late-season letdowns into a running conversation about where the rebuild actually stands.
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Locked On Red Wings is a daily Detroit Red Wings show built for fans who still want the conversation after the standings have already done the damage. It reacts quickly. A blowout loss to Florida becomes a question of pride, not just scoreline. A late blown lead against New Jersey becomes another chapter in a 10-year playoff drought and a third straight March collapse. Brian Fisher and Scotty Bentley do not sand down the frustration, but the show usually turns that frustration into hockey reasons. Goaltending is a constant pressure point. John Gibson’s season is framed as both early worry and later lifeline, with his stronger stretch helping explain why Detroit overperformed for so long. The offense gets treated with the same bluntness, especially around weak five-on-five scoring and reliance on the power play. When the Red Wings finally have a fun night, the show notices that too. Dylan Larkin’s hat trick, Moritz Seider’s five points, Alex DeBrincat’s 40th goal, and Patrick Kane’s 1,400th career point all become reasons to talk about what fans can still hold onto. Prospect coverage gives the show its offseason engine. Axel Sandin-Pellikka, Carter Mazur, Sebastian Kosa, and Trey Augustine are discussed as real pieces in an uncertain future, not abstract hope. Grand Rapids is part of the map. So is the draft-lottery frustration of missing the playoffs without a first-round lottery pick. The rhythm is conversational, sometimes messy, and often funny in a tired fan way. It can move from a game recap to roster math to a joke about carrying the show without much ceremony. That works because the show assumes its audience already lives inside the Red Wings season. It is not a detached NHL overview. It is a running daily argument with Detroit’s present, its missed chances, and the version of the future that still might be worth watching.
Made for: For Detroit Red Wings fans who follow the team beyond final scores and want daily context on games, prospects, roster decisions, and the long playoff drought. It especially fits listeners who can handle blunt postgame honesty alongside detailed fan-level analysis.
What sets it apart: The show pairs immediate emotional reaction with specific hockey diagnosis, making disappointment feel examined rather than recycled. Its daily rhythm also lets prospects, Grand Rapids assignments, milestones, and late-season stakes build into one continuous Red Wings conversation.
Locked On Red Wings podcast is the daily podcast that drops the puck and keeps you ahead of the game and the first to know the latest news, analysis, and insider info for the Detroit Red Wings and the National Hockey League. Hosted by Radio podcast producer Brian Fisher and Detroit News journalist Scott Bentley, the Locked On Red Wings podcast provides your daily Red Wings fix with expert opinions, local analysis, bad jokes, amazing guests (like Moritz Seider, Darren McCarty and Keith Gave) and coverage of all aspects of the Red Wings franchise and their 11 Stanley Cups. The Locked On Red Wings podcast takes you beyond the ice for the inside scoops on the biggest stories from within the Red…
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed Red Wings analysis connects game results, roster decisions, and prospect development to the team's larger direction.
Brian Fisher and Scotty Bentley turn Detroit Red Wings results into a running diagnosis of the team. Their conversations move from painful late-season losses and playoff elimination to player evaluations and the prospect pipeline, while keeping the hockey details clear.
Even Larkin's hat trick raises the question: is it too late for your Red Wings?
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A blunt season verdict, with John Gibson and the late collapse carrying most of the weight.
Locked On Red Wings opens its first offseason pass with the blunt question hanging over Detroit's late collapse: was the season a success or a failure? The hosts do more than settle on a label.
A milestone-heavy win that still leaves the bigger question hanging.
Brian Fisher's solo postgame keeps its focus on a wild Detroit Red Wings win over the Philadelphia Flyers and on the nagging question underneath it: is it enough, or is it too late?
A blunt look at what still matters when the playoff path is almost gone.
Locked On Red Wings keeps the focus on a blunt question: with Detroit three points back, four games left, and Ottawa holding the first tiebreaker, what is still worth tracking as playoff hope thins out?
A glass-half-full look at a fourth-place prospect ranking, anchored by Cossa and Augustine.
The episode builds its case around Scott Wheeler of The Athletic's fourth-place ranking of the Red Wings prospect pool, using that slot as a springboard for a glass-half-full look at how much optimism it can support.
Four surrendered hat tricks and a missing offensive identity shape a weary Red Wings postgame review.
Detroit's back-to-back losses are framed as a puck-control problem first, and everything else flows from there. Brian Fisher and Scotty Bentley tie the Red Wings' five-on-five struggles to a lack of sustained offensive-zone pressure, leaving the power play as the one dependable…
Flyers wins, losses, and reality checks.
Daily Canucks panic with receipts.
Buffalo hockey, argued daily.
This episode analyzes the Detroit Red Wings' 4-3 shootout loss to the Washington Capitals, focusing on Patrick Kane breaking the NHL's all-time points record for U.S.-born players and the dramatic late-game goals that forced overtime.
The hosts discuss the Detroit Red Wings' surprising 3-year, $3.85 million AAV contract extension for defenseman Ben Chiarot, analyzing the financial implications and team strategy.
Brian Fisher and Scotty Bentley open offseason mode by putting Detroit's season on trial.
The hosts discuss the Detroit Red Wings' embarrassing 8-1 loss to the Florida Panthers in their final game of the season, highlighting frustration over the team's lack of pride and a disappointing end to the year.
Two hosts preview the Detroit Red Wings' final game of the season against the Florida Panthers, discussing what fans should want to see and avoid in a game with no playoff implications.
The Detroit Red Wings lost in overtime to the Tampa Bay Lightning despite a third-period comeback, with Patrick Kane reaching his 1,400th career point during the game.
This episode analyzes the Detroit Red Wings' elimination from NHL playoff contention after a decade-long drought, focusing on their recent loss to the New Jersey Devils due to another late-game collapse.
Brian Fisher rides out the aftermath of a 6-2 Red Wings win over the Flyers.
Brian Fisher and Scotty Bentley open with a joke about a neck ache and who is carrying the podcast.
The hosts kick off with Scott Wheeler's fourth-place ranking of the Red Wings prospect pool.
Detroit's hope is fading fast.
This episode analyzes the Detroit Red Wings' lineup decisions when Dylan Larkin and David Perron return from injuries, focusing on who might be benched or sent down.
This episode discusses the Detroit Red Wings' acquisition of Justin Faulk, Dylan Larkin's injury, and their recent shutout victory over the New Jersey Devils.
This episode features a crossover between Locked On Red Wings and The Grind Line Podcast, where hosts discuss and evaluate their preseason predictions for the Detroit Red Wings, including player performance like Lucas Raymond's potential to hit 90 points.