Winging It In Motown

With the Tampa Bay Lightning putting the finishing touches on back-to-back Stanley Cups Wednesday night the 2020-2021 season has finally come to an end. It also means that a somewhat condensed and likely flurry of activity offseason is about to begin. One of the first landmarks is the opening of the buyout window, set for

Welcome back to our Seattle Expansion Draft Series. If you haven’t read the first article that lays out the rules of the expansion draft, that would be a good starting point, as I’ll only give the very basic rules in each of these follow up articles. Previous articles focusing on Detroit in this series were

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Ask an average NHL fanatic what they thought of the 2017 draft, and you’ll get a variety of responses. Some applaud their GM for their savvy picks. Others were skeptical at first but quickly changed their minds as the prospects developed. The Detroit Red Wings were among neither of these groups. At the time, general

Ranking the 10 Worst Offseason NHL Trades Since 2000 – BR By 2001, however, Hasek had yet to add a Stanley Cup to his trophy case. He informed the Sabres he wanted to play one more season but with a contender. On July 1, 2001, they traded Hasek to the Detroit Red Wings in exchange

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Red Wings Could Target Cap-Strapped Teams For a Defenseman – SI Other targets could include the Hurricanes’ Brady Skjei, the Penguins’ Marcus Petterssen or Mike Matheson, or the Wild’s Matt Dumba or Carson Soucy. Vince Dunn is the guy that’s talked about before the “other targets” – not really any names we haven’t already run

Only sharing the one story today because it doesn’t feel right putting any other stories with it, but that doesn’t mean you can’t use Quick Hits to bring stuff up that’s interesting to you. Columbus Blue Jackets goalie Matiss Kivlenieks, 24, dies after being struck by fireworks – ESPN Police in Novi, Michigan, said the

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Previously, we took at look back at the first three prospects Detroit took in the 2020 NHL Draft. Head over to read what Lucas Raymond, William Wallinder, and Theodor Niederbach have been up to in the last year. Below, you’ll find the rest of the gang. #55 – Cross Hanas (LW) Cross Hanas was taken

For those of you who are curious about Tanguay’s coaching experience, look no further: Last season, he served as the assistant coach for the Iowa Wild of the AHL. Due to his efforts, the Wild secured the fifth-best power play in the AHL and over 3.15 goals per game last season. With the Red Wings

Welcome to Re-Sign or Resign, a new segment covering the pros and cons of Detroit’s pending UFAs. We’ll be taking a closer look at each UFA while going over two schools of thought: re-signing the player, or letting him run free into the sunset. Today, we’re covering the last of the UFAs on our list

The Red Wings have the second-most projected cap space for next season among all NHL clubs with $48.2 million. With just 10 players under contract, most of that money will go toward re-signing restricted free agents such as Jakub Vrana and Filip Hronek. However, Yzerman should still have enough to add one or two talented

As we prep for the 2021 NHL draft (July 23 and 24), a reader email asked if there were plans to do a recap of how last year’s Detroit draft class has fared. I figured that this post would be a good answer to that question. #4 overall – Lucas Raymond (LW) After seeing pretty

Detroit has the cap space to offer Danault a competitive salary and prominent role, and at 28, he has good years left. But term would likely be a hangup for a Detroit team who continues to go short-term in free agency, and a player whose performance this postseason is likely to garner interest from better

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We are getting ready to record Episode 74 of our NHL podcast “Fer Sure: A 200 Foot Podcast.” If you missed the last episode, you can catch up here. This week we have the return of Chris Watkins! We’ve had him on a few times, and he’s always been a great guest. He follows (and

Welcome back to our Seattle Expansion Draft Series. If you haven’t read the first article that lays out the rules of the expansion draft, that would be a good starting point, as I’ll only give the very basic rules in each of these follow up articles. If you are interested in Detroit, that was the

Detroit Red Wings await 2021-22 schedule: Will it include 2022 Beijing Olympics? – Freep In other topics, Bettman said the NHL does not plan to allow for any compliance buyouts this offseason, even though the flat salary cap has caused issues for some teams. The Wings have a prime buyout candidate in veteran Frans Nielsen,

“(Larkin) hasn’t started training yet, but I think he’s along the timeline that we expected in his recovery,” coach Jeff Blashill said Wednesday, during new assistant coach Alex Tanguay’s introductory Zoom call. “Tyler has probably been able to do a little bit more lately. I think he’s getting to the stage where you can get