Mmm! Red Wings pick their last meals

Free Press sports writer Helene St. James decided to have a little fun and ask a bunch of the Red Wings what they would have for their last meal. Johan Franzen tried to persuade Riley Sheahan to have a ham and jalapeño pizza, but as Sheahan replied: “I am not going to have something I have never had before when I am on death row.”

Smart thinking. Here are their orders:

Kyle Quincey: “Chocolate cake in raspberry sauce. No. 4 (Baconator) from Wendy’s, and then a Taco Bell supreme soft shell, on the inside of a Gordita Crunch supreme, but with Cool Ranch. McDonald’s fries. And a blizzard.”

Petr Mrazek: “Czech food, for sure. Like, dumplings with creamy sauce and meat. For dessert, strawberry mascarpone, cheesecake and brownies.”

Henrik Zetterberg: “Swedish meatballs with mashed potatoes and lingonberries. For dessert, peanut chocolate pie from Ocean Prime.”

Dylan Larkin: “My mom’s lasagna, and Tim Hortons donuts.”

Tomas Tatar: “Something greasy, like a hamburger. I like steak, but that is not what I would get because I am sick of it. So a burger and a chocolate brownie sundae.”

Niklas Kronwall: “Sushi — especially ‘salmon on the beach’ from Mon Jin Lau — and a lava cake from Morton’s.”

Johan Franzen: “Swedish pizza. It’s got everything on it — a gyro, sauce, fries, cheese. It’s not that good for you.”

Mike Green: “Cheeseburger and fries, everything greasy. No dessert. I’m not really a sweets guy.”

Jimmy Howard: “Chicken and ribs on the grill, then milk and Oreos.”

Darren Helm: “Steak, baked sweet potatoes with butter. Dairy Queen Heath blizzard.”

Brad Richards: “I’d go with cheeseburger, fries and a strawberry milkshake to wash it down.”

Alexey Marchenko: “Spaghetti bolognese, and chocolate fondue.”

Justin Abdelkader: “Well-cooked steak with vegetables. Milkshake for dessert.”

Brendan Smith: “Steak and wings, with Heath cake for dessert, with a lot of whipped cream.”

Teemu Pulkkinen: “Pasta with meat sauce, steak and mashed potatoes, and ice cream.”

Tomas Jurco: “Goulash.”

Jonathan Ericsson: “My wife’s meatballs with a cream sauce and mashed cauliflower and lingonberries, and a raspberry white chocolate truffle cheesecake for dessert.”

Riley Sheahan: “Pizza and chicken wings. Being from close to Buffalo, I’d want real buffalo chicken wings and pizza. Then cookies and cream ice cream in a nice, big soft serve cone.”

Luke Glendening: “Everything on the Taco Bell menu.”

Contact Helene St. James: hstjames@freepress.com. Follow her on Twitter @helenestjames.

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