2021 Training Camp Jersey Number Notes

The Red Wings announced their 2021 training camp roster on Wednesday and, following the Tuesday announcement of Bobby Ryan joining the team on a PTO, there were no surprises on the roster itself.

Which means I get to move on to my favorite annual tradition: Analyzing jersey number changes.

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Between returning players from last year’s roster, incoming players who had already had their numbers announced, and players whose numbers were revealed by Detroit’s prospects tournament roster, there weren’t a lot of surprises left.

The biggest surprise is probably Taro Hirose switching from #67 to #25.  He’d previously switched to #67 after debuting wearing #53, specifically requesting a number with a seven in it, so switching to a number without a seven was unexpected, to me.

Additionally, Hirose’s switch makes Mitchell Stephens having picked #22 interesting.  Stephens had worn #67 with the Tampa Bay Lightning and seemingly wore it whenever his preferred #27 wasn’t available.  With #27 taken by Michael Rasmussen in Detroit and #67 vacated by Hirose, I’m surprised that Stephens went with #22 instead.

Two players making their returns to the Detroit organization also have some slightly-surprising numbers.

Luke Witkowski will wear #20 in Detroit’s camp after having worn #28 in his first stint with the Wings.  I’d wondered if Gustav Lindstrom would give up #28 but he keeps it, and Witkowski’s usual alternate number #82 went to summer free agent signing Jordan Oesterle.

Dan Renouf had previously worn #77 in Detroit but that number is now assigned to Oscar Plandowski.  In camp, he’d also worn the #20 taken by Witkowski, leaving him switching to the #21 made available by Dennis Cholowski’s departure.

The full training camp roster is as follows:

Forwards

Num.	Name
11	Filip Zadina
14	Robby Fabbri
15	Jakub Vrana
22	Mitchell Stephens
23	Lucas Raymond
24	Pius Suter
25	Taro Hirose
26	Riley Barber
27	Michael Rasmussen
37	Carter Rowney
42	Kyle Criscuolo
46	Chase Pearson
48	Givani Smith
50	Dominik Shine
51	Hayden Verbeek
52	Jonatan Berggren
54	Bobby Ryan
56	Pasquale Zito
57	Turner Elson
58	Cameron Butler
59	Tyler Bertuzzi
61	T-Bone Codd
62	Cooper Walker
63	Jon Martin
64	Luke Toporowski
67	Dennis Yan
71	Dylan Larkin
73	Adam Erne
74	Cross Hanas
76	Tyler Spezia
78	Patrick Curry
79	Kirill Tyutyayev
89	Sam Gagner
90	Joe Veleno
92	Vladislav Namestnikov

Defensemen

Num.	Name
2	Nick Leddy
3	Jared McIsaac
17	Filip Hronek
18	Marc Staal
20	Luke Witkowski
21	Dan Renouf
28	Gustav Lindstrom
32	Brian Lashoff
44	Donovan Sebrango
47	Wyatt Newpower
49	Seth Barton
53	Moritz Seider
65	Danny DeKeyser
70	Troy Stetcher
77	Oscar Plandowski
82	Jordan Oesterle
83	Mason Ward
84	Alex Cotton
86	Adam Brubacher
87	Ryan Murphy

Goalies

Num.	Name
29	Thomas Greiss
31	Calvin Pickard
33	Sebastian Cossa
34	Victor Brattstrom
36	Kaden Fulcher
39	Alex Nedeljkovic
60	Jan Bednar