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Detroit — There’s only one exhibition game left, and everyone is pretty excited about that. Players are counting the hours until the real games begin next week and at this point, no one can blame them. There were stretches Thursday night where the Red Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins were probably guilty of trying to advance the clock

Detroit — Tyler Bertuzzi hadn’t had a feeling for a game like this in a long time. In fact, it was Jan. 30, when Bertuzzi faced the Florida Panthers, and happened to be Bertuzzi’s final game of last season. Eventually, though attempting to return for months, Bertuzzi had to have season-ending back surgery. On Thursday, in the

Detroit —The Red Wings soundly defeated a minor league-laden Columbus roster last week in preseason action. In Wednesday’s exhibition game, the Blue Jackets dressed a more regular-season roster and the gained revenge, defeating the Red Wings 4-2 in Columbus. “For sure they had a good lineup,” forward Filip Zadina said. “I don’t know if they

Detroit — Givani Smith’s position on the Red Wings’ roster is likely secure. He is out of options, so if the team was to waive him, he’d likely be picked up by another team for nothing. Smith, 23, signed a two-year contact worth $1.5 million ($750,000 salary cap hit) during the offseason, a sign of the Wings’ faith

Jalen Smereck already felt like a stranger in a strange land. The last couple of months spent living in Ukraine were quite understandably a culture shock for the 24-year-old Detroit native. For example, Smereck, who is Black, says he can count on one hand the number of faces he has seen that look like his around

Detroit — It’s the exhibition season. These games don’t count in the standings, and teams often are playing different lineups — waves of players who aren’t going to play in the NHL, and veterans are still getting into shape. All that is understood. But no one can deny the Red Wings’ power play has been looking good in these warm-up

Detroit — Lucas Raymond is making it difficult for the Red Wings to keep him off the opening-night roster next week. The rookie continued his torrid pace Monday in the exhibition season with a goal and assist — and many more good plays — in the Wings’ 6-4 loss to Chicago. The Wings scored all four

Detroit — Tyler Bertuzzi wasn’t in the Red Wings’ lineup for Monday’s exhibition game against the Chicago Blackhawks, and it’s unclear whether he’ll play in any of the three remaining exhibition games. Returning from back surgery, which essentially cost him all of last season, it would be good to have Bertuzzi play a warm-up game or two. But the

The Red Wings aren’t going to win every exhibition game this preseason after all. Pittsburgh made sure of that with a 5-1 victory Sunday over the Wings at PPG Paints Arena, ending the Wings’ three-game win streak. Pius Suter (power play) scored on a two-man advantage at 15:46 of the first period. Otherwise it was the Penguins

Detroit — Dylan Larkin made his return to the Red Wings lineup Saturday a successful one. Playing in his first game since April 20, when he took a crosscheck to the neck area, Larkin had two power-play goals and an assist leading the Wings to a 5-1 exhibition victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets. Larkin referenced Will Ferrell’s

Detroit — Dylan Larkin made his return to the Red Wings lineup Saturday a successful one. Playing in his first game since April 20, when Larkin took a crosscheck to the neck area, Larkin had two power-play goals and an assist leading the Wings to a 5-1 exhibition victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets. Larkin took an outlet

Detroit native Jalen Smereck said he was “really angry, disappointed” with the Ukrainian Hockey League’s 13-game suspension and a fine to Andrei Denyskin for a racist gesture towards Smereck in a UHL game between HC Kremenchuk and HC Donbass on Sunday. In an interview with TSN Canada on Thursday, the 24-year-old former defenseman with the

Detroit — Red Wings defenseman Nick Leddy remembers coming through the Chicago Blackhawks’ organization and soaking in the knowledge Duncan Keith would share. “Looking up to Duncan Keith and all the stuff he’s taught me over the years,” Leddy said Friday. “It was an older team when I got to Chicago, and looking up to all those

There is some skill waiting in the Wings. Not enough yet, obviously, and it’s fair to wonder whether any of these timelines will overlap in a way that produces a legitimate playoff team at some point. But at least there’s something worth watching now. And maybe even cheering, as a few thousand fans did Thursday

Detroit — The Red Wings want Lucas Raymond to be noticeable, make an impact, and be one of the best players on the ice when he is playing these exhibition games. If Raymond does that, he’ll be on the opening-night roster. One game in, Raymond was very noticeable. Raymond scored a goal in his exhibition season debut,

Detroit — What a gut punch to begin the Red Wings’ season. Coach Jeff Blashill said Thursday morning after the morning skate forward Jakub Vrana will miss a minimum of four months because of shoulder surgery. Vrana arrived in Traverse City in time for Saturday morning’s practice, and about 10 minutes into the workout, left the ice

Bobby Ryan made an excellent statement that he deserves to be on the opening night Red Wings’ roster. In camp on a professional try-out, Ryan tied the game late then scored the clinching goal in the shootout, leading the Wings to a 4-3 shootout victory over Chicago. The Wings won the shootout 3-2 with Adam

Detroit — There is a path for forward Lucas Raymond to make the Red Wings roster. But for it to happen, Raymond is going to have to make a jaw-dropping impact in the two-week series of games. It can be done. Dylan Larkin did it in 2015 to make the Wings’ roster, instead of apprenticing in Grand Rapids.

Detroit native Jalen Smereck is taking an indefinite leave of absence after the 24-year-old defenseman with HC Donbass in the Ukraine was the target of a racist gesture on the weekend in the Ukrainian Hockey League. In an Instagram post on Tuesday, Smereck, a Black player who spent his youth hockey career with Little Caesars, the Oakland

Traverse City — The first stage is done, now it’s on to the next part for the Red Wings. They completed the training camp portion of the exhibition season Tuesday with a sixth consecutive day of practices, and raced out of Centre Ice Arena back down Interstate 75 to Detroit. Now, it’s on to an eight-game exhibition