{"id":9351,"date":"2025-07-20T01:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T01:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/9351\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T01:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T01:11:08","slug":"michal-svrcek-expected-to-remain-in-the-shl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/9351\/","title":{"rendered":"Michal Svrcek Expected To Remain In The SHL"},"content":{"rendered":"

At least one prospect from the Detroit Red Wings\u2019 2025 draft class has decided where he will play next season. According to a report from Mattias Persson of Hockey News (Sweden)<\/a>, forward Michal Svrcek<\/a> will remain with the SHL\u2019s Bryn\u00e4s IF for another year.<\/p>\n

For clarification, although there was a non-zero chance he\u2019d make Detroit\u2019s roster next season, there was no expectation he was going to. The OHL\u2019s Windsor Spitfires had drafted Svrcek in the 2025 OHL Import Draft, which would have only required Red Wings\u2019 staff to cross the Ambassador Bridge to watch him play.<\/p>\n

The Red Wings selected Svrcek with the 119th overall pick of the 2025 NHL Draft after spending a large chunk of the season with Bryn\u00e4s IF J20 of the J20 Nationell. He performed well for his age group, scoring 14 goals and 30 points in 30 games, with a +9 rating. Despite the team not advancing very far in the postseason, the Zilina, Slovakia native performed well, scoring two goals and adding four points in three postseason contests.<\/p>\n

Svrcek spent a brief period with Bryn\u00e4s IF\u2019s professional team, scoring one goal and three points in 17 games, with a -1 rating. His lack of size was noticeable, but he sustained his high motor and remained a nuisance against the opposing team\u2019s defense.<\/p>\n

Detroit is making a gamble that Svrcek will be better served in the SHL, which is widely regarded as the second-best league outside of North America. There will likely be some growing pains, but it\u2019ll be a shorter step to the NHL if he continues his development. In an interview on the Slovak television channel TVNoviny, Svrcek was quoted, saying, \u201cThis week I agreed with my agent and Detroit\u2019s management that I will stay in Bryn\u00e4s for another season, where I will try to start the season in the A-team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least one prospect from the Detroit Red Wings\u2019 2025 draft class has decided where he will play…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[9540,49,48,742,9539,448,6557,82],"class_list":["post-9351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-2025-nhl-draft","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-michal-svrcek","tag-nhl","tag-shl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}