{"id":513866,"date":"2026-03-02T12:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T12:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/513866\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T12:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T12:36:09","slug":"griffins-wallinder-awaits-nhl-call-detroit-hockey-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/513866\/","title":{"rendered":"Griffins Wallinder Awaits NHL Call \/ Detroit Hockey Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit Red Wings defense prospect <a href=\"https:\/\/detroithockeynow.com\/2024\/05\/02\/wallinder-rare-bright-spot-in-griffins-playoff-loss-cossa-watson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">William Wallinder<\/a> is spending his third full season with the Grand Rapids Griffins. He\u2019s played 179 AHL games with Detroit\u2019s top farm club without even getting a single sniff of life in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>So close \u2026 and yet so far away.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s enough to leave a guy down in the dumps, wondering if his time will ever arrive.<\/p>\n<p>Right?<\/p>\n<p>Wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, not really, no,\u201d Wallinder insists. \u201cJust taking one day at a time and just focusing, getting better. There\u2019s no rush.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m still young, just enjoying my time here, trying to get better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit Red Wings defense prospect William Wallinder is spending his third full season with the Grand Rapids Griffins.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,257107,7644,3064,952,10324,575,85,257108],"class_list":["post-513866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dan-watson","tag-detroit-hockey-now","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-featured","tag-grand-rapids-griffins","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-william-wallinder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513866","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=513866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}