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Wings' Zadina scores in high-intensity taste of NHL during scrimmage

Traverse City – He’s learning every day, and Sunday, Filip Zadina learned some more.

This was about what to expect these next couple weeks in NHL exhibition games, against men getting ready to compete at the highest level of hockey.

Zadina, the Red Wings' exciting 18-year-old winger, had an opportunity to play on a line with Andreas Athanasiou and Thomas Vanek, two talented playmakers, during Sunday’s Red and White intrasquad scrimmage.

Playing with two talented NHL players, and against a squad full of them.

Zadina scored a goal, helping the Red team to a 4-2 victory.