{"id":489962,"date":"2026-02-19T10:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/489962\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:53:16","slug":"red-wings-first-round-picks-lead-griffins-to-fourth-win-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/489962\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Wings\u2019 first-round picks lead Griffins to fourth win in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/griffins\/\" title=\"Navigate to Griffins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Griffins<\/a>Updated: Feb. 18, 2026, 10:55 p.m.|Published: Feb. 18, 2026, 10:49 p.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Sebastian Cossa, Dominik Shine\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/23OMA3JMEVEM3HGYSFPN2YPNHA.jpg\"  \/>Goaltender Sebastian Cossa. Dominik Shine and the Griffins defeated Cleveland.(Nicholas Carrillo\/Griffins)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"YT4E5O5SOFDZJMSM5K632PQNKE\">A pair of Detroit Red Wings\u2019 first-round picks helped the Grand Rapids defeat the Cleveland Monsters 3-2 Wednesday at Van Andel Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ILZXKUIERVDUPFHV67LTKVK25Q\">Michael Brandsegg-Nygard (15th overall in 2024) scored what stood as the game-winning goal in the second period. Sebastian Cossa (15th overall in 2021) made 22 saves in picking up his AHL-leading 22nd win (22-4-2).<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"OVISS6JNRRFVTO5YMYQQ36QFNI\">The Griffins have won four in a row and six of their past seven, improving their league-best record to 38-7-2-1 (79 points).<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"L7I7K5TBBZA6BKAQ66IQH7VL2E\">Dominik Shine scored his 21st goal to open the scoring at 1:02 of the first period and assisted on Sheldon Dries\u2019 goal (his 18th) at 11:48 of the first that put Grand Rapids ahead for good at 2-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"BZA2BSWNLFHINOFFGS7IJSGPDM\">Brandsegg-Nygard made it 3-1 at 16:52 of the second period with his ninth goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"WJPI5VBPXFGD7PHLOKIFFTQLUY\">Cleveland fell to 25-16-6-1 (57 points).<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"5UUSJF4FGJEZ5KCD2U3MHXFK7E\">The Griffins host the Chicago Wolves on Friday (7 p.m.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GriffinsUpdated: Feb. 18, 2026, 10:55 p.m.|Published: Feb. 18, 2026, 10:49 p.m.Goaltender Sebastian Cossa. Dominik Shine and the Griffins&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-489962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489962","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=489962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}