With every offseason comes chatter involving all sorts of players from around the NHL. More often than not, this talk amounts to nothing more than rumors and hearsay. Of course, every now and then, these rumors come to fruition. For the Detroit Red Wings, almost all of that offseason chatter surrounds one player, and it’s
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With the Red Wings picking 6th in the 2021 NHL Draft, we profile defensemen Luke Hughes, Brandt Clarke, and Simon Edvinsson.
2021 Draft Consensus Rankings – WIIM Fanposts This year I had 25 sources with almost all of them being familiar to people like me who research prospects. I ended up with 113 players with all but two having at least multiple second round rankings. The two that didn’t had a whole bunch of third round
The 2021-22 NHL schedule is expected to be released Thursday, and training camp in Traverse City is two months away — and at last, the Detroit Red Wings can interact with fans again. Forward Robby Fabbri and coach Jeff Blashill represented the team Monday at a street hockey clinic at Patton Memorial Center in Detroit,
Last week, the Detroit Red Wings made their first major move of the offseason, acquiring defenseman Nick Leddy in a trade with the New York Islanders. To understand the transaction, one has to understand the player – so let’s dig into his recent play with the Islanders. 2020-21 Stats: Goals: 2 Assists: 29 Relative Corsi For
Detroit — Robby Fabbri was back to playing hockey on a hot Monday afternoon. Granted, it was street hockey, as part of the Red Wings’ “Street Hockey in The D: Summer Series,” but it was hockey with a bunch of enthusiastic kids. But Fabbri, who said he had a “little concussion” at the end of the season
The Detroit Red Wings protection list for the 2021 NHL Expansion Draft has finally been revealed, which means the Seattle Kraken can finally begin to formulate their plan of attack. Looking at those left unprotected, there are four obvious candidates for Seattle to take: two risky selections and two safe ones. The Risks Evgeny Svechnikov
After making do with three intra-squad scrimmages as warm-up games the past season because of the pandemic, the Detroit Red Wings will have the usual exhibition season this fall. Because of the pandemic, teams only had little more than a week to prepare for the 2021 season. The Wings played three scrimmages at the practice
The Detroit Red Wings announced their 2021 preseason exhibition schedule on Monday. The eight-game slate includes home and away games against the Buffalo Sabres, Chicago Blackhawks, Columbus Blue Jackets, and Pittsburgh Penguins. Detroit’s slate of opponents had remained relatively stable throughout the 2010s after the Boston Bruins replaced the Philadelphia Flyers in 2011. This marks
Detroit — The Red Wings will return to the ice at Little Caesars Arena on Thursday, Sept. 30, for their first of four home preseason games. The Wings announced their eight-game preseason schedule Monday. The schedule is: ►Wednesday, Sept. 29: at Blackhawks (8:30) ►Thursday, Sept. 30: vs. Sabres (7:30) ►Saturday, Oct. 2: vs. Blue Jackets
Detroit — One big, bold mystery. That’s what this 2021 NHL Entry Draft is shaping up to be, with so many unknowns whirring around teams and prospects. The league will hold the first round of the draft on Friday, and rounds two through seven on Saturday. There will likely be many gasps and surprises, as so
What’s The Grind Line? Apart from the once-famous line of Kris Draper, Kirk Maltby, and either Joe Kocur or Darren McCarty, The Grind Line is also The Hockey Writers’ weekly column about the Detroit Red Wings. This week Tony Wolak, Devin Little, Patrick Brown, and Kyle Knopp are the muckers who make up THW’s forechecking
Tony and Linda Veleno share memories of the 2018 NHL draft where their son, Joe Veleno, was selected by the Detroit Red Wings 30th overall.
Editor’s note: This is the seventh in a series of profiles of the top prospects for the NHL Draft on July 23-24, 2021. Peterborough center Mason McTavish knows first-hand about Steve Yzerman’s success with the Ontario Hockey League’s Petes. Before leading the Detroit Red Wings to three Stanley Cups in 1997, 1998 and 2002 and a fourth
Back for another season are Dylan Galloway, the head scout for Eastern Canada for Future Considerations and Will, who runs the highly acclaimed draft site Scouching. We talked about a wide range of draft related topics, both related to Detroit and the rest of the league. If you are using a podcast app, you can
Detroit Red Wings expose Dennis Cholowski to expansion draft The NHL on Sunday released the lists of which players teams protected ahead of Wednesday’s expansion draft, and Wings general manager Steve Yzerman left 2016 first-round pick Dennis Cholowski exposed. The headline is definitely hyperbolic, and I don’t think that it’s really a good argument, but
Nick Leddy received a phone call from Detroit Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman, who welcomed his latest acquisition to the rebuild. Leddy cost the Wings a 2021 second-round draft pick, but all the ways he potentially can help alleviates that price. Leddy is an offensive defenseman, a left-handed shot who projects to partner with Moritz Seider
The Detroit Red Wings’ expansion protection list wasn’t as surprising once the Nick Leddy trade was announced. One of the three remaining defenseman–Troy Stecher, Dennis Cholowski, or Gustav Lindstrom was going to be penciled in while the others were exposed. Stecher being out there is a tough blow for the fans who embraced him this
Detroit — Nick Leddy knows he has something to offer the Red Wings, and it’s a valuable asset. “A veteran presence,” said Leddy, 30, who the Wings acquired Friday from the New York Islanders in exchange for forward Richard Panik, a second-round draft pick in next week’s draft, and retaining half of Panik’s $2.7 million salary
Detroit Red Wings newly acquired defenseman Nick Leddy speaks with the media following Friday’s (7/16) trade with the New York Islanders.