Detroit Free Press

The sequel went better: The day after coming up short, the Detroit Red Wings came away celebrating. They played the Boston Bruins for the second time in two days Sunday, taking the action to Little Caesars Arena in another nationally televised game. The Wings edged out the best team in the NHL, 5-3, the day

Detroit Red Wings (29-27-9, 67 points) vs. Boston Bruins (50-9-5, 105) When: 1:30 p.m. Sunday. Where: Little Caesars Arena in Detroit. TV: TNT. Radio: 97.1 FM (Red Wings radio affiliates). • Box score Game notes: The two-day home-and-home concludes with the Red Wings hosting the Bruins at LCA. The NHL-leading Bruins won Saturday, 3-2, in Boston, rallying from a 2-0 deficit. This

BOSTON — The Detroit Red Wings showed fight but the Boston Bruins showed might. The Wings, their playoff dreams all but eliminated, built a quick lead Saturday at TD Garden, but the Boston Bruins, their playoff hopes virtually secure, scored three straight goals to claim a 3-2 victory. Playing on national TV, the Wings showed they

Austin Czarnik made a favorable impression in his earlier stint with the Detroit Red Wings, earning another opportunity. With Robby Fabbri nursing a lower-body injury and two games on the slate this weekend, the Wings on Friday called up the 30-year-old from Washington Township. Czarnik (5 feet 9, 170 pounds) appeared in 12 games with

For those in the Detroit Red Wings’ locker room who have history with Tyler Bertuzzi, this weekend will undeniably be a strange one. “Weird, really weird,” is how Dylan Larkin described the anticipation as the Wings face a home-and-home series with the Boston Bruins, who acquired Bertuzzi March 2, the day before the trade deadline.

The early prognosis on Detroit Red Wings forward Robby Fabbri sounded encouraging. Coach Derek Lalonde said Thursday that Fabbri is considered day-to-day, and that there is a chance he could be available this weekend when the Wings play a home-and-home against the Boston Bruins. Fabbri appeared to hurt a knee when he was hit along

The start was rough, falling behind by a pair of goals at home to an opponent near the bottom of the standings, and then losing a teammate to injury. The Detroit Red Wings were urged by their coach ahead of Wednesday’s game against the Chicago Blackhawks at Little Caesars Arena to stop feeling sorry for

The Detroit Red Wings’ lineup, already depleted after the trade deadline, sustained another hit Wednesday. Robby Fabbri, a top-six forward and power play guy, left in the first period of the game at Little Caesars Arena after a hit along the boards from Chicago Blackhawks forward Tyler Johnson. Fabbri limped to the bench and down

As he nears the finish line on his first season with the Detroit Red Wings, Dominik Kubalik is trying to regain the confidence he had when it began. The top-six forward has endured an offensive slump that has him going back to basics. “It’s all about those little things — skating and getting the puck

The message on the ice was to get to the hard areas; the message off the ice was to stop feeling sorry for themselves. The Detroit Red Wings enter their next game, Wednesday at Little Caesars Arena against the Chicago Blackhawks, having to look back nearly two weeks to the last time a game ended

PHILADELPHIA — Moritz Seider wants to see more presence from the Detroit Red Wings, who at this point can only look back fondly at that brief moment they spent inside the playoff picture. They have time to gather their collective thoughts before their next game, which comes Wednesday against the Chicago Blackhawks, a team earmarked

PHILADELPHIA — The Detroit Red Wings finished a short road trip against an opponent having an even tougher season than them. The Philadelphia Flyers, sitting below the Wings in the standings, still proved a challenge Sunday evening at Wells Fargo Center. The outing continued what has become a dispiriting demise for the Wings, with their

At some point in the future, perhaps after Simon Edvinsson’s jersey retirement ceremony, Steve Yzerman will have dealt enough players and acquired enough draft picks that he will finally declare the Detroit Red Wings rebuild to be over and keep himself from sending so many players packing at the NHL trade deadline. That time is

ELMONT, N.Y. — A patched-up Detroit Red Wings group took shape in the team’s first game after the NHL trade deadline. They played one of a handful of teams standing between the Wings and their faint hopes of climbing into the Eastern Conference playoff picture, taking on the New York Islanders in a Saturday matinee at

Steve Yzerman was curious, but ultimately, he was committed to the plan he and his staff had drawn up for the Detroit Red Wings even before a brief flirtation with a playoff spot. As he put it, you can’t just pull a good team out of a hat. Yzerman, now in his fourth season as

General managers rarely gift wrap a potential 40-goal scorer and send him to another team, but that essentially is what Steve Yzerman did to rid the Detroit Red Wings of Jakub Vrana. Friday morning heralded the news Vrana would continue his NHL career with the St. Louis Blues. The Wings agreed to retain 50% of

Updated: The NHL trade deadline closed at 3 p.m. Friday, and the Detroit Red Wings ended up moving four players this week. Oskar Sundqvist was shipped just before the deadline to the Minnesota Wild for a fourth-round pick in the 2023 draft, the second trade pulled by general manager Steve Yzerman on Friday. Yzerman had

The trade deadline is over for another season, and the Detroit Red Wings once again used it to stockpile for the future. General manager Steve Yzerman dealt two players who previously featured to be key parts of the rebuild, a forward who clearly had fallen out of favor with the organization, and a role player

Detroit Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman accomplished what he has wanted to do since January: unload Jakub Vrana. Vrana was traded to the St. Louis Blues on Friday for a seventh-round pick in 2025 and minor-leaguer Dylan McLaughlin. The Wings retained 50% of Vrana’s salary on the contract that runs through next season with

Steve Yzerman didn’t get to see the team he thought he’d see this season. Then again, neither did you. Though you aren’t the one who had to decide whether to buy, sell or stand pat this week heading into today’s NHL trade deadline. Perhaps you wish you were. Maybe you’d have held on to Tyler