General manager Steve Yzerman’s decision to acquire Petr Mrazek for this season and next doesn’t really change Grand Rapids Griffins goalie Sebastian Cossa’s path to the Detroit Red Wings. The plan was never to pencil in Cossa for next season.

Sebastian Cossa has made steady progress in each of the past two seasons with the Grand Rapids Griffins and was an AHL All-Star this year. But it seems the Detroit Red Wings don’t believe he’ll be NHL-ready next season.

Nikolai Knyzhov is one of the more intriguing defenseman in the Penguins organization, but now, he's been traded to the Detroit Red Wings in a surprising deal.

While the trade deadline has come and gone at the NHL level, the same restriction is not in place in the AHL, where the deadline won't hit until the 14th of March. As such, the Red Wings organization swung a deal to acquire left-handed defenseman Nikolai Knyzhov from the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins for now more than "future considerations.

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"It feels like home," said Mrazek, a 2010 fifth-round draft pick of the Wings, who was acquired Friday in a trade with Chicago and practiced for the first time Sunday. "I have to many friends still here and family here.