After waiting for almost a year, the event that most Red Wing fans have been waiting for has finally come and gone: the 2020 NHL Draft. General manager Steve Yzerman has been a busy man over the last few days – no more so than during the elongated second day of the draft. But the
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Ted Kulfan | The Detroit News Detroit — The draft is done. Now it’s off to the next check list for the Red Wings’ offseason. Unrestricted free-agency in the NHL begins at noon Friday, but what that’ll exactly mean for the Wings and other NHL teams is a question mark. Because of the current NHL economic landscape,
Ted Kulfan | The Detroit News Here is a list of top 20 unrestricted free agents that are hitting the market at noon Friday, as compiled by Detroit News sports writer Ted Kulfan: ►Alex Pietrangelo, defenseman, St. Louis: Excellent player, great captain, just won the Stanley Cup a year ago. Shocking the two sides couldn’t work
Now that the Detroit Red Wings have 12 new prospects in their pipeline, they can turn their focus to free agency, which is scheduled to open up Friday at noon. During a recent Zoom call, general manager Steve Yzerman noted that the organization would once again approach free agency conservatively. And once the 2020 NHL
After an eventful Day 1 of the 2020 NHL Entry Draft, we saw some movement among several teams. The New York Rangers sent a former seventh overall pick to the Los Angeles Kings, the Edmonton Oilers resolved their saga with Jesse Puljujarvi and the Detroit Red Wings loaned a former first-round pick to Sweden. Rangers
Helene St. James | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman talks on 2020 class Detroit Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman talks after the 2020 draft. Oct 7, 2020. Detroit Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman expressed hope after the 2020 NHL draft that he increased the odds that “a
Ted Kulfan | The Detroit News Detroit — The Red Wings stayed busy Thursday, signing forwards Adam Erne and Taro Hirose to one-year contract extensions. Both players were potential restricted free agents. Erne, 25, played in 56 games, scoring five points, before a lower-body injury ended his season. Erne’s 142 hits ranked second on the
Helene St. James | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman talks on 2020 class Detroit Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman talks after the 2020 draft. Oct 7, 2020. Detroit Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman got two of his restricted free agents signed Thursday, extending a guy he brought
Ted Kulfan | The Detroit News Detroit — Moritz Seider will be playing hockey in Sweden this season. Seider, the Red Wings’ 2019 first-round draft pick, has been reassigned from German-league team Mannheim to Rogle BK, in the Swedish Elite League. The SEL has mandated that NHL prospects such as Seider must remain there for the
Mark Falkner | The Detroit News Thirteen players and two alumni from the National Team Development Program in Plymouth were selected in the 2020 NHL draft. A day after U18 captain and defenseman Jake Sanderson was taken fifth overall in the first round, the NTDP had four players taken in a row during the second round.
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, Devin Little, Ian McNaughton, and Tony Wolak are the muckers who make up THW’s forechecking unit and
Bob Wojnowski | The Detroit News Show Caption Hide Caption Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman on when first pick Lucas Raymond could reach NHL Red Wings GM says it is highly likely the Swedish forward will remain with club team Frolunda this season. Detroit —It’s one thing to be active, and the Red Wings have
Ted Kulfan | The Detroit News Show Caption Hide Caption Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman on scouting first pick Lucas Raymond Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman on scouting first-round pick Lucas Raymond in world junior tournaments and the Swedish Elite League. Detroit — Wake up, the NHL Entry Draft is finally over. And the
Ted Kulfan | The Detroit News Ted Kulfan of The Detroit News takes a look at the prospects selected by the Detroit Red Wings in the 2020 NHL Draft. Lucas Raymond ► Pick: No. 4 overall (Round 1) ► Position: Right wing ► Height/weight: 5-10/165 ► Last season: Frolunda (Sweden) — 33 games, 4 goals,
The Detroit News | The Detroit News Show Caption Hide Caption Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman on when first pick Lucas Raymond could reach NHL Red Wings GM says it is highly likely the Swedish forward will remain with club team Frolunda this season. In addition to quantity, it appears as though the Detroit Red
Ted Kulfan | The Detroit News Detroit — The Red Wings stayed in Sweden with their first several picks of the 2020 NHL Entry Draft — then went for a reach from Texas. After picking forward Lucas Raymond on Tuesday in the first round, the Wings selected defenseman William Wallinder and center Theodor Niederbach with
Bob Wojnowski | The Detroit News Detroit —It’s one thing to be active, and the Red Wings have no choice. It’s another thing to be proactive, and Steve Yzerman is barreling ahead, moving up, moving around, moving as quickly as possible. In the past week, we’ve seen all sorts of crafty, smallish deals, the ones
Ted Kulfan | The Detroit News Detroit — Wake up, the NHL Entry Draft is finally over. And the Red Wings are happy with that fact – and the way it turned out for them. In a draft that lasted approximately seven hours – which has to be some sort of second-day record – the
Helene St. James | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Texan Cross Hanas on being drafted by Detroit Red Wings Detroit Red Wings draft pick Cross Hanas on a Zoom call, Oct. 7, 2020. Steve Yzerman cast his net far and wide as he gathered potential candidates for the Detroit Red Wings‘ rebuild. He
Helene St. James | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Steve Yzerman on why Lucas Raymond fits Detroit Red Wings rebuild Steve Yzerman talks about Detroit Red Wings draft pick Lucas Raymond on Oct. 6, 2020. Detroit Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman opened three more roster spots, but they won’t necessarily go to