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Newcomers made favorable impressions for the Detroit Red Wings as they continued to thrive in exhibition season. Lucas Raymond scored and had an assist,  and Pius Suter contributed three assists Thursday in the Wings’ 6-2 victory against the Buffalo Sabres at Little Caesars Arena. Suter was a free-agent signing brought in to boost the offense, and
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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
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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
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Jeff Blashill likened his Detroit Red Wings coaching staff’s approach to the exhibition slate to writing a bunch of formulas and then wondering which work. Juggling eight games in 11 days, beginning with Wednesday’s test at the Chicago Blackhawks, matters because this next week and a half will go a long way toward determining several
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Traverse City — Danny DeKeyser was in the lineup to start last season, but you could tell something wasn’t quite right. Having had back surgery, which pretty much wiped out DeKeyser’s 2019-20 season (he only played eight games), DeKeyser returned to action but wasn’t the same player. Some of DeKeyser’s strength wasn’t there, and it was
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TRAVERSE CITY —Bobby Ryan kept his hopes up, even as the phone call he really wanted didn’t come and the off-season turned to the near-season. He finally heard from the Detroit Red Wings just before the start of training camp, when he received a professional tryout invitation. Ryan, 34,  joined the Wings last October, and
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Traverse City — Bobby Ryan never has been in this position before, and admits it’s different. Weird. Unsettling, even. Here’s Ryan, one of the best goal-scorers and exciting players in the NHL since being drafted second overall in 2005, is in Red Wings’ training camp on a professional tryout. No guarantees, no contract; just the hope maybe something
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Traverse City — The Red Wings returned to playing actual hockey Sunday, and saw some new players making positive statements. Team White defeated Team Red 3-2 in a shootout at Centre ICE Arena. Free-agent acquisition Pius Suter and Dominik Shine scored goals for the White, while trade acquisition Mitchell Stephens scored both Red goals. In the shootout,
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TRAVERSE CITY — Seeing a specialist is a never a good sign, and that is what is next for injured Detroit Red Wings forward Jakub Vrana. That Vrana has a date on Monday with a doctor who will further examine his injured shoulder was as much information as coach Jeff Blashill would share about Vrana after Sunday’s
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TRAVERSE CITY — Moritz Seider is a neat, polite houseguest, which is no surprise given how he manages to have a big personality and be a consummate professional. Seider is the Detroit Red Wings’ most exciting defense prospect since Niklas Kronwall two decades ago, but even Kronwall wasn’t where Seider is at 20 years old.
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