{"id":145913,"date":"2025-09-15T22:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T22:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/145913\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T22:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T22:05:07","slug":"lombardi-figuring-out-how-to-get-to-the-nhl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/145913\/","title":{"rendered":"Lombardi Figuring Out How to Get to the NHL (+)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Developing NHL prospects is akin to parenting in that you often wonder what your youngsters will be like when they are all grown up.<\/p>\n<p>The Detroit Red Wings are curious about <a href=\"https:\/\/detroithockeynow.com\/2024\/10\/20\/lombardi-steps-up-for-griffins-cossa-cleary\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amadeus Lombardi<\/a>. They\u2019ve watch him evolve from a fourth-round draft pick with longshot NHL hope (less than 10.9% probability) into a player that looks like he deserves a shot. Starting with his last Ontario Hockey League season after the Red Wings drafted him, Lombardi continues to take his game to a higher level. It was 102 points in his final season with the Flint Firebirds, followed by 26 points as a role player in his first AHL season and then a dominant performance in the AHL last season when he had 40 points in 44 games in a season cut short by injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Developing NHL prospects is akin to parenting in that you often wonder what your youngsters will be like&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[98736,64,63,952,575,7322,53436,85],"class_list":["post-145913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-amadeus-lombardi","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-featured","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-draft","tag-red-wings","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}