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General manager Steve Yzerman added another mid-round pick to the Detroit Red Wings rebuild. He flipped third-pair defenseman Jon Merrill to the Montreal Canadiens for Ottawa’s 2021 fifth–round pick and forward Hayden Verbeek on Sunday, the team’s third trade on the weekend. Friday, the Wings traded defenseman Patrik Nemeth to the Colorado Avalanche for a

The NHL made this time of year more fun in 1980 when it established a deadline for general managers to improve their teams before the playoffs. Teams near the top or bottom of the standings have it easier in deciding whether to buy or sell, but bubble teams gamble in deciding which direction to take.

Bob Sutton |  Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. — Adam Erne scored in the seventh round of the shootout as the Detroit Red Wings beat the Carolina Hurricanes 5-4 on Saturday night. Erne also scored his team’s last goal in regulation, giving him four goals in the last six games. “It has been going well lately,” Erne

Steve Yzerman is doing what he can to add to the Detroit Red Wings’ rebuild. Entering Saturday’s game at Carolina, he had netted his team two fourth–round picks after Yzerman was part of an afternoon three-team trade that netted the Wings a fourth-round pick in 2021. In exchange for the pick from Yzerman’s old team in

The Detroit Red Wings made their first move at this year’s trade deadline — but it wasn’t for much. The team announced Friday evening that defenseman Patrik Nemeth had been traded to the Colorado Avalanche for a fourth-round pick in 2022. Nemeth was in his second season with the Wings, and with the team headed

Losing Bobby Ryan for the rest of the season is a double blow for the Detroit Red Wings. Ryan had been an outstanding veteran leader and a top-six forward with a knack for offense. For the man tasked with stoking the rebuild — general manager Steve Yzerman — Ryan had been a moveable piece to flip at

Already reeling, the Detroit Red Wings revealed another piece of bad news Friday: Bobby Ryan is done for the season. That was the message delivered by coach Jeff Blashill after an energetic practice in preparation for Saturday’s game at the Carolina Hurricanes. The Wings are coming off a 7-1 loss to Nashville on Thursday, which

Akil Baddoo’s debut would be a great story even if the Detroit Tigers were the defending champs and the other big four teams here had made recent deep playoff runs, too. Not many longshot prospects hit the first big-league pitch they ever see over the fence and follow that up with a grand slam and

The Detroit Red Wings have been here before. Too many times, in fact. They head into a series against the Carolina Hurricanes smarting from a rout that had one veteran wondering when the Wings will learn. They know they need to work hard to have a chance — and yet another night ended so disastrously.

With a month to go in the season, the Detroit Red Wings endured another rout. Several mistakes cost them Thursday at Little Caesars Arena, just as they seemed to be building a bit of steam. It was close for the first 30 minutes or so, but then the Wings deteriorated, left to rue a 7-1 loss

Jeff Blashill predicts a quiet trade deadline. Sam Gagner wouldn’t mind if it is. The Detroit Red Wings know they could lose players as contenders are under pressure to shore up before Monday’s noon deadline. But this year’s market comes amid a pandemic that’s left teams operating under a flat salary cap, and before largely

Thomas Greiss is playing his best hockey of the season, just in time for the Detroit Red Wings. The trade deadline is Monday, and the Wings have multiple players, including goaltender Jonathan Bernier, who should draw interest. Bernier has been the team’s MVP, while Greiss struggled through February and March, especially. But Greiss has strung

The Detroit Red Wings built two leads, got good goaltending, and paced a hot opponent to a tight contest. Their Tuesday night against the Nashville Predators at Little Caesars Arena ended with their first shootout of the season. They fell, 3-2, when neither Dylan Larkin nor Filip Zadina could convert on their chances and Ryan

The Detroit Red Wings are taking advantage of having access to the COVID-19 vaccine. The pandemic ripped through the locker room on opening weekend, forcing five players into quarantine. One spent training camp dealing with it — and that’s left him leaning toward postponing getting the vaccine until after the season ends. The majority of

The week ahead features a short homestand and then it’s back on the road for the Detroit Red Wings. They take on the Nashville Predators on Tuesday at Little Caesars Arena, freshly rested after a week in Florida. The Wings went 1-2-1 in miniseries against the Panthers and Tampa Bay Lightning, finishing the trip with

The Detroit Red Wings came away with two points and a boost to their confidence from weekend games against the defending Stanley Cup champions. They used a hardworking effort Sunday to bank a 5-1 victory, their first regular-season victory against the Tampa Bay Lightning at Amalie Arena since Feb. 17, 2011 — the Wings were 0-16-1

During his second trade deadline as a general manager, Steve Yzerman engineered a transaction that netted his team a franchise goaltender. That was in 2012, when Yzerman was in his second year in charge of the Tampa Bay Lightning. The  Lightning had superstars in Steven Stamkos and Victor Hedman when Yzerman took over in May

The Detroit Red Wings played well defensively but their inability to score cost them against the defending Stanley Cup champions. They gave up two early goals, then made things interesting in the third period of their Saturday matinee against the Tampa Bay Lightning at Amalie Arena. The Wings wound up with a 2-1 loss that left them

As the Detroit Red Wings round into the home stretch of another disappointing season, two big, young players inject hope into the future. The Wings face as tough a test as there is this weekend when they take on the defending Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning in back-to-back matinees. But the Wings come into

The Detroit Red Wings played more to the identity they seek, getting pucks in deep and doing a solid job defensively. They took Thursday’s game at BB&T Center in Sunrise, Florida, to overtime before falling, 3-2, to the Florida Panthers. The Wings went 2-4-2 in the season series, falling to 12-21-5 Alex Wennberg scored at 1:25