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Detroit — Nothing is going to change these last four games for the Red Wings. There aren’t any curveballs to the lineup. No prospects are being promoted. No playing time is being shifted around. No one is resting any injuries, and the importance of these games hasn’t been diminished. They aren’t making the playoffs for

Detroit — When it’s all said and done this season, the Red Wings likely accomplished one of their biggest goals. The Wings wanted to play meaningful games until deep into the season. They have and did. You can debate how close the Wings really were to the playoffs these last several weeks, but mathematically they

Detroit — Watching defenseman Simon Edvinsson now, you see why the Red Wings did what they did at the beginning of the season. Edvinsson showed flashes during the exhibition season of being ready for the NHL, of handling a third-pair role and learning the NHL in a difficult way. But the Wings have always preached

Detroit — All the Red Wings can do these days is keep winning and hoping beyond hope the Florida Panthers and New York Islanders lose — and keep losing. The playoffs are a near impossibility, but this is professional sports. And this time of year, the unforeseen and unexpected can happen. The Wings enter Thursday’s

Montreal − This was a thin and weak Montreal lineup Tuesday the Red Wings faced, and the Wings did exactly what a maturing, improving team should do. The Wings never gave the Canadiens a chance, scoring early and often in a decisive 5-0 victory. Montreal natives David Perron (two goals and one assist) and Joe

Montreal — Derek Lalonde has been with the Tampa Bay organization the last four seasons and won two Stanley Cups and a Presidents’ Trophy during his time as a Lighting assistant coach. As a first-year head coach of the Red Wings, there isn’t going to be a Stanley Cup or trophy for the NHL’s best

Montreal — Pius Suter, the wily veteran that he is at 26, has really begun feeling his age in recent days. Seeing Simon Edvinsson (age 20) and Marco Kasper (18) take up residence in the Red Wings locker room has left Suter shaking his head. “It’s kind of crazy in that I’m not that old,”

Toronto – The crowd out there who want the Red Wings to keep losing and gain better odds in the draft lottery probably hated this result. Still, you want to think many Red Wings fans enjoyed Sunday’s 5-2 victory over Toronto, in a game that still means quite a bit with the Maple Leafs looking

Toronto — When Marco Kasper dreamed about making his NHL debut, this was actually close to how he imagined it would be. Since being drafted by the Red Wings in July, Kasper imagined he would be wearing the Wings’ jersey and facing an Original Six opponent like the Toronto Maple Leafs. “Like a dream come

This hasn’t happened often in Lucas Raymond’s career, be it as a professional or when he was still a junior player in Sweden. Rarely has Raymond ever gone through this kind of stretch where goals, or points, have been so difficult to come by. Not getting a goal during Friday’s 6-2 loss in Winnipeg pushed

Carolina Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour knew something was wrong when Tripp Tracy didn’t show up for work on April 26, 2022. As the Hurricanes’ TV color analyst since 1998, Tracy was scheduled to tape a pregame show with Brind’Amour, a former Michigan State Spartans center who won a Stanley Cup in Carolina as a player

There’s going to be a few of these during a long NHL season and the Red Wings definitely encountered one of those ugly losses Friday in Winnipeg. The Wings were never really in this one, losing 6-2 to the Jets, while beginning a three-game Canadian road trip. Maybe it was playing a third game in

Ted Kulfan discusses the Red Wings recalling first-round draft pick Marco Kasper and Hurricanes TV analyst Tripp Tracy is the guest on the OctoPulse podcast. Kasper, who had 23 points in 52 games with Rogle in the Swedish Hockey League this year, arrived in Winnipeg on Friday before the Wings dropped a 6-2 decision against

About an hour after Thursday’s exciting victory over Carolina, the Red Wings made a personnel move that will caffeinate the fan base for the final two weeks of the regular season. The Wings recalled forward Marco Kasper, the team’s first-round pick (eighth overall) in the 2022 Entry Draft. Kasper is with the team in Winnipeg

Detroit − The Red Wings made an interesting personnel decision after Thursday’s 3-2 victory over Carolina. The Wings called up forward Marco Kasper, the team’s first-round draft pick last July, from Rogle BK of the Swedish Hockey League. Kasper, only 18, spent the entire season in Rogle, collecting 23 points (eight goals, 15 assists) and

Detroit − They likely aren’t going to make the playoffs and with a depleted lineup and countless injuries, but the Red Wings aren’t rolling over and waiting for the season to end. Jake Walman blasted a shot from just inside the blue line with 3.2 seconds left in regulation time, giving the Red Wings a

Detroit — Andrew Copp has already been through the experience of facing the Winnipeg Jets, the team that drafted him and he was a mainstay on for seven seasons. But that was facing the Jets while he was part of the New York Rangers, who acquired Copp during at last season’s trade deadline. Then this

For the first time in the 104-year history of the Memorial Cup, Michigan will host the championship of the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) in 2024. Saginaw was selected on Wednesday afternoon ahead of Ontario Hockey League (OHL) bids from the Niagara IceDogs, Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds, and Kingston Canadiens. “We are thrilled to bring the

Detroit — One of the best reactions to come out of coach Derek Lalonde’s ejection from Tuesday’s game against Pittsburgh was from his daughter Abby. The 12-year-old was planning on writing to the NHL to complain about Lalonde’s second-period ejection after an unsuccessful goaltender interference call. “She wanted to email the league and want to

Detroit — The Red Wings got back into the win column Tuesday but coach Derek Lalonde wasn’t around to see it. David Perron scored two late goals (three in the third period), a power play goal then at even strength 45 seconds later at 17 minutes 5 seconds, completing a hat trick and sending the