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Callahan will be back in the Red Wings lineup on Thursday.
Mitchell Callahan News
The Red Wings have recalled Mitch Callahan from Grand Rapids (AHL).
Callahan, 25, has 14 goals and 22 assists (36 points) in 53 games with Grand Rapids this season. Callahan is a scrappy player that will replace Steve Ott, who was traded to Montreal late on Tuesday night.
The Red Wings re-signed Mitch Callahan to a one-year contact.
Callahan, 24, spent the entire 2015-16 season with Grand Rapids (AHL), where he had 19 goals and 13 assists (32 points) in 62 games. He plays a pest-style game, perfect for a bottom-6 role in Detroit, but there are far too many veteran forwards in his path for Callahan to be a Red Wing in 2016-17.
The Red Wings have sent Mitch Callahan back to Grand Rapids (AHL).
Callahan played 9:01 in his NHL debut on Tuesday night vs. Columbus. Callahan has been sent back to the Griffins because Tomas Jurco will be back in the lineup on Thursday.
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Callahan will make his NHL debut on Tuesday.
Callahan will be just the 30th California-born player to make it to the NHL. Callahan has recorded 25 goals and 15 assists in 66 games in the AHL this season. He will replace Cory Emmerton in the lineup tonight vs. the Blue Jackets.
The Red Wings have recalled Mitch Callahan from Grand Rapids (AHL).
Callahan, 22, was drafted in the sixth-round (180th overall) in 2009. He is in his third season with Grand Rapids, where he has 25 goals and 15 assists (40 points) in 66 games. He could make his NHL debut on Tuesday with Landon Ferraro swapping places with him.
The following players were assigned to the Grand Rapids Griffins: forwards Louis-Marc Aubry, Mitchell Callahan, Willie Coetzee, Adam Estoclet, Jamie Johnson, Andrej Nestrasil, Nick Oslund, Francis Pare, Trevor Parkes and Brent Raedeke; defensemen Greg Amadio, Gleason Fournier, Sebastien Piche and Bryan Rufenach; and goaltender Thomas McCollum.
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