2018 Development Camp Jersey Number Notes

The Red Wings released the rosters for their annual development camp today and, as per usual, there are some interesting jersey numbers in the set.

This is where I have to note that summer jersey numbers (specifically development camp and the prospects tournament) don’t usually mean much, but sometimes they’re a sign of number changes or

Of this year’s draft picks, Filip Zadina gets #11 and Joe Veleno gets #90, their usual numbers.  Ben Street had been assigned #11 last season but never wore it and David Pope had worn it in development camp but is now assigned #45.  Veleno’s #90 was worn in development camp last season by Keith Petruzelli, who is now assigned #80.

Jonatan Berggren has been assigned the #15 that used to belong to Riley Sheahan.  Speaking of players traded away last season, Dennis Cholowski will be wearing the #21 of Tomas Tatar after having previously worn #95, #2, and #53.  Meanwhile, free agent signee Patrik Rybar will wear the #34 formerly worn by Petr Mrazek.

Ryan O’Reilly is the only remaining 2018 draftee to be assigned a “normal” jersey number, with his usual #71 flipped to the #17 of David Booth.  I still expect Tyler Bertuzzi to take that number once the main camp rolls around.

Jared McIsaac, Alec Regula, and Seth Barton – Detroit’s trio of blueline draftees from last weekend – have been assigned #63, #94, and #95, respectively.  Jordan Sambrook wore both #63 and #95 last summer but will not be at this camp while Kaspar Kotkansalo had worn #94.  Kotkansalo will wear the #53 vacated by Cholowski.

The two goalies the Red Wings picked on Saturday – Jesper Eliasson and Victor Brattstrom – will wear #31 and #68, respectively.  The Wings regularly switch their prospect goalie jersey numbers up, as seen by now-departed Matej Machovsky wearing both of those numbers at different points last summer.

Wrapping recent draft picks up, Otto Kivenmaki has been assigned #84, the number Reilly Webb wore at development camp last year before switching to his current #50.

Mattias Elfstrom, a 2016 draft pick, switches from #56 to #37.  Jack Adams switches from #74 to #70, with Cole Fraser taking #74 after previously wearing the #85 now assigned to free agent tryout Luke Morgan.

With Eric Tangradi having claimed #26 during the Wings’ main camp last fall, Chase Pearson switches to #76.  Similarly, having lost his #48 to Givani Smith, Gustav Lindstrom switches to #54.

Defenseman Malte Setkov goes from #86 to #79, with Alfons Malmstrom taking the #86, having lost his #4 to Dylan McIlrath.  Meanwhile Patrick Holway completes a swap with Filip Hronek – Hronek took Holway’s #24 last summer with Holway taking the #87 Hronek switched from this summer.

Rounding things out are the goalies, which (as I mentioned) are always somewhat chaotic.  After wearing #36 in development camp last summer and #68 in main camp, Kaden Fulcher will wear #60 this time around, with Filip Larsson (who’d previously worn #68) taking #36.  Joren van Pottelberg is the only goalie keeping his previous number, as he wore Tom McCollum’s #38 in development camp last year.

The full roster is as follows:

Forwards

Num.	Name
70	Jack Adams
15	Jonatan Berggren
82	Colt Conrad
37	Mattias Elfstrom
64	Zach Gallant
67	Brady Gilmour
89	Pavel Gogolev
92	Maxim Golod
20	Nicolas Guay
78	Taro Hirose
84	Otto Kivenmaki
85	Luke Morgan
17	Ryan O’Reilly
76	Chase Pearson
45	David Pope
27	Michael Rasmussen
88	Ryan Savage
48	Givani Smith
90	Joe Veleno
75	Sebastian Vidmar
81	Trevor Yates
46	Lane Zablocki
11	Filip Zadina

Defensemen

Num.	Name
95	Seth Barton
21	Dennis Cholowski
73	Marcus Crawford
74	Cole Fraser
62	Trevor Hamilton
87	Patrick Holway
53	Kasper Kotkansalo
54	Gustav Lindstrom
86	Alfons Malmstrom
63	Jared McIsaac
94	Alec Regula
79	Malte Setkov
50	Reilly Webb

Goalies

Num.	Name
68	Victor Brattstrom
31	Jesper Eliasson
60	Kaden Fulcher
36	Filip Larsson
80	Keith Petruzzelli
34	Patrik Rybar
38	Joren van Pottelberghe