The last time the Detroit Red Wings had a player score 30 goals or more was during the 2018-19 season when both Dylan Larkin and Andreas Athanasiou accomplished the feat. The last time the Red Wings had a player do it two seasons in a row? 2008 and 2009 when both Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik
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Detroit — The future appears bright for the Tigers and Pistons, who have received good grades for their recent drafts. The Red Wings are in a similar position. General manager Steve Yzerman and his scouting staff have stockpiled a jaw-dropping amount of draft picks and valued prospects since Yzerman’s return to Detroit in 2019. The deft
In today’s NHL rumors rundown, Boston Bruins’ goaltender Tuukka Rask offers an update on his health after surgery. Meanwhile, Valtteri Filppula has left the Detroit Red Wings organization and signed in Switzerland. The Pittsburgh Penguins are trying to fill a hole on their blue line and the St. Louis Blues are still actively trying to
Detroit — A month from now, the Red Wings will be on the ice in Traverse City as training camp commences. If it feels as if last season just ended, that’s accurate. As the NHL gets back on its regular calendar schedule — last season was pushed back and shortened due to the pandemic —
Detroit — The NHL is returning to its traditional divisional alignment this coming season. For the Red Wings and their fans, that means no more Nashville, Chicago, Carolina and Dallas almost every other evening (or so it seemed). Because of the pandemic, the NHL realigned and attempted another geographic-centric divisional alignment in which teams only played
There may not be another figure in Detroit sports that sparks the kind of….passionate….responses like Detroit Red Wings head coach Jeff Blashill does. “One thing you learn in coaching,” Blashill said during his year-end press availability, “is to have very think skin and to stay off social media.” To be fair, as the man that
What’s The Grind Line? Apart from the once-famous line of Kris Draper, Kirk Maltby, and either Joe Kocur or Darren McCarty, The Grind Line is also The Hockey Writers’ weekly column about the Detroit Red Wings. This week Tony Wolak, Devin Little, Patrick Brown, Kyle Knopp, and Jeff Middleton are the muckers who make up
I wrote an article about the Detroit Red Wings possible first-line combination of Tyler Bertuzzi, Dylan Larkin, and Jakub Vrana on Aug. 15. The feedback I got was pretty positive, but one thing kept being brought up by the readers. What happened to Filip Zadina? Why not him instead of Bertuzzi on the top line?
Slowly but surely, the remaining evidence of Ken Holland’s final years as Detroit Red Wings general manager is being erased. Center Frans Nielsen received a buyout on the final year of the six-year, $31.5 million deal he signed with the Red Wings in 2016, CapFriendly.com reported Thursday. An additional buyout window was triggered by Detroit settling its arbitration
The Little Ball of Hate goes west. The Detroit Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman announced Thursday that one of his assistant’s, Pat Verbeek, will now also assume the duties of GM of the Grand Rapids Griffins. Verbeek, 57, has worked on Yzerman’s staff since 2010, first with the Tampa Bay Lightning and the last two
The Frans Nielsen era with the Detroit Red Wings is over. His contract has been bought out by the team, according to CapFriendly.com. The website reports the move will save the Red Wings $1 million against the salary cap in the 2021-22 season, but adds $500,000 to the cap the following year. Nielsen was due to cost $5.25 million
If you ask Dylan Larkin about how his season went, he’ll be the first to admit that it didn’t exactly go according to plan. “It was a little bit of a disappointing year,” Larkin said during his season-end media availability. “I played through a lot of things and a lot of injuries.” As he also
Detroit — How the Red Wings’ defense has evolved over the last 17 months is startling. Simply comparing the two Wings’ lineups from then to now, you see you it plainly. Here is how was playing on defense for the Wings on March 10, 2020, against Carolina, the last Wings’ game before the pandemic would temporarily shut sports
By Stephen Whyno | Associated Press Jersey advertisements are coming to the NHL. The league will allow teams to put sponsor patches on jerseys beginning with the 2022-23 season after the board of governors unanimously approved the move, according to a person with knowledge of a memo sent this week. The person spoke to The Associated
After missing the last five postseasons, the Detroit Red Wings could be on the rise, in large part because general manager Steve Yzerman has done a phenomenal job of drafting since he joined the team in April 2019. Thanks to the draft, the Red Wings have several bright young prospects, many of whom project to
It turns out that Detroit Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman and I have a few things in common. No, really. There are a handful of parallels with our current endeavors. I’m about to start the third year of my MBA program at Virginia Tech – my undergraduate alma mater. Likewise, Yzerman is about to
Detroit — Sometimes contract negotiations can be difficult and frustrating, but it doesn’t sound like Adam Erne’s dealings with the Red Wings this summer were anything like that. Erne and the Wings settled on a two-year contract Sunday worth $4.2 million ($2.1 million salary cap hit). Erne, 26, a restricted free agent with salary arbitration rights,
What’s The Grind Line? Apart from the once-famous line of Kris Draper, Kirk Maltby, and either Joe Kocur or Darren McCarty, The Grind Line is also The Hockey Writers’ weekly column about the Detroit Red Wings. This week Devin Little, Patrick Brown, Kyle Knopp, and Jeff Middleton are the muckers who make up THW’s forechecking
There are a lot of things to like about the Detroit Red Wings as a whole. General manager Steve Yzerman has done an excellent job of creating a bright future for the franchise while acquiring slightly older players who may not be as valued on other teams. One of the players that they acquired was
Detroit — Adam Erne had a career-best season, and Sunday he was rewarded for it. Erne, a restricted free agent, agreed to a two-year contact worth $4.2 million ($2.1 million salary cap hit) with the Red Wings. By agreeing to the contract, the two sides avoided salary arbitration later this week. The Wings also worked out