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The Detroit Red Wings announced on Thursday evening that Derek Lalonde will be the team’s next head coach. UPDATE: Detroit #RedWings executive vice president and general manager Steve Yzerman today announced that the team has named Derek Lalonde the 28th head coach in franchise history. 📝: https://t.co/prZ9xpvGLj pic.twitter.com/y8RQzxn98G — Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) June 30,

The Detroit Red Wings announced most of their exhibition schedule for the 2022 preseason on Thursday. 89 days away! 📰 » https://t.co/BgvCzg3irn pic.twitter.com/xikwpPE7eD — Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) June 30, 2022 They will play their traditional eight-game slate against a set of familiar teams. The Red Wings will both host and visit the Chicago Blackhawks,

The Red Wings ended their season on Friday night in New Jersey and entered the offseason with a slate of decisions to make about the direction of the team. It took under a day for General Manager Steve Yzerman to make the first one. Jeff Blashill will not return as the team’s head coach. The

The Detroit Red Wings traded forward Vladislav Namestnikov to the Dallas Stars for a fourth-round draft pick in 2024 on Monday, just as the NHL’s trade deadline approached. The Red Wings are trading Vladislav Namestnikov to the Stars for a fourth round pick, @KevinWeekes reported on ESPN. — Brad Galli (@BradGalli) March 21, 2022 Namestnikov

The Detroit Red Wings made an expected move in the lead-up to Monday’s NHL trade deadline, sending veteran defenseman Nick Leddy to the St. Louis Blues for Oscar Sundqvist, Jake Walman, and a second-round pick. Luke Witkowski, currently with the Grand Rapids Griffins, also goes to St. Louis as part of the deal. UPDATE: The

In what The Athletic’s Max Bultman referred to as the “first domino of of the deadline”, the Detroit Red Wings traded defenseman Troy Stecher to the Los Angeles Kings for a seventh-round draft pick on Sunday. UPDATE: The Detroit #RedWings today acquired a 7th round pick in the 2022 NHL Entry Draft from the Los

The National Hockey League announced on Sunday that the Detroit Red Wings would be shut down until at least after the league’s Holiday Break. SCHEDULE UPDATE: The @DetroitRedWings have been shut down at least through the scheduled completion of the @NHL’s Holiday Break in the schedule on Dec. 26. https://t.co/E57I3F2Hom pic.twitter.com/2CUmMc8oBQ — NHL Public Relations

With Robby Fabbri and Michael Rasmussen already in COVID protocol, the Detroit Red Wings added five more to that list on Saturday. UPDATE: The #RedWings have placed Givani Smith, Carter Rowney, Alex Nedeljkovic, head coach Jeff Blashill and assistant coach Alex Tanguay in the NHL’s COVID-19 protocol. — Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) December 18, 2021

The Detroit Red Wings announced the signing of forward Robby Fabbri to a three-year deal on Monday night. UPDATE: The Detroit #RedWings today signed center Robby Fabbri to a three-year contract extension with an average annual value of $4 million. pic.twitter.com/s4p9O9XuCr — Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) December 14, 2021 And… Can it be?! They actually

Dylan Larkin deserves to be suspended for his punch to Tampa Bay’s Mathieu Joseph on Thursday night.  There’s no place for that in the game. The problem, of course, is that there’s no place in the game for Joseph’s hit from behind on Larkin that precipitated the punch.  There’s no place in the game for

The Red Wings announced on Wednesday that defensemen Danny DeKeyser and Marc Staal will serve as the team’s alternate captains for the coming season. Your 2021-22 Captain & Alternate Captains. 🤩 pic.twitter.com/RpcxaKP74U — Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) October 13, 2021 They join returning captain Dylan Larkin, who will wear the C for Detroit for his

The Detroit Red Wings announced their initial roster for the 2021-22 NHL season on Monday, making their final cuts by sending Riley Barber, Taro Hirose, and Joe Veleno to the Grand Rapids Griffins. The Detroit #RedWings today assigned Riley Barber, Taro Hirose and Joe Veleno to the AHL’s Grand Rapids Griffins. Additionally, Detroit designated Kyle

With the Red Wings’ exhibition schedule wrapping up in Buffalo today, we may not yet know what their opening night roster will look like but we do have some data to work with towards guessing who the team’s new alternate captains might be. With the offseason departures of Luke Glendening and Frans Nielsen, both of

The Red Wings announced their 2021 training camp roster on Wednesday and, following the Tuesday announcement of Bobby Ryan joining the team on a PTO, there were no surprises on the roster itself. Which means I get to move on to my favorite annual tradition: Analyzing jersey number changes. Your 2021-22 #RedWings camp roster. #LGRW

Today marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the day I started the site that would become DetroitHockey.Net.  As has become the norm on the site’s anniversary, I feel like I should say something profound and find myself coming up short. When I think about those bad old days of the Internet and compare them to now,

The Detroit Red Wings announced yesterday the signing of restricted free agent defenseman Filip Hronek to a three-year deal. UPDATE: The Detroit #RedWings today re-signed defenseman Filip Hronek to a three-year contract. pic.twitter.com/mOqAzYXzog — Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) September 3, 2021 As per usual, the team did not announce the financial terms of the deal.

If a series of trademark filings made earlier this week are to be believed, the American Hockey League expansion team previously referred to as Palm Springs could instead be using “Coachella Valley” as their place name. Trademarks for the names Coachella Valley Firebirds, Coachella Valley Dragons, Coachella Valley Eagles, and Coachella Valley Falcons were all

Per CapFriendly, the Detroit Red Wings have opted to use their second buyout window to buy out the final year of forward Frans Nielsen’s contract. With the #Red Wings settling their Arb case with Adam Erne 4 days ago, the club had access to a second buyout window. As a result, Detroit has opted to

The Detroit Red Wings announced the signing of center Pius Suter to a two-year deal on Wednesday. UPDATE: The Detroit #RedWings today agreed to terms with center Pius Suter on a two-year contract. pic.twitter.com/2LLsXycHFj — Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) July 28, 2021 The deal reportedly carries a $3.25 million salary cap hit. Suter comes to

The Red Wings are signing a pair of depth defensemen: Jordan Oesterle from the Arizona Coyotes and Ryan Murphy from the American Hockey League’s Henderson Silver Knights. Hearing the Detroit Red Wings are close to signing Coyotes UFA D-man Jordan Oesterle to a two-year deal. — Craig Morgan (@CraigSMorgan) July 28, 2021 The Detroit #RedWings