The Detroit Red Wings have hired a familiar face to help them behind their bench: Former Colorado Avalanche forward Alex Tanguay. Tanguay, 41, is expected to handle the forwards and the power play, replacing Dan Bylsma, whose contract was not renewed after the 2020-21 season. Tanguay has spent the last two years as an assistant
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Detroit — The Red Wings named Alex Tanguay as a new assistant coach on Wednesday. Tanguay, 41, joins coach Jeff Blashill’s staff after spending the last two seasons as an assistant coach with the Minnesota Wild’s minor league affiliate Iowa Wild. Iowa was 54-31-9 over the last two seasons, had the American League’s fifth-best power play (21.9%) in
John Wawrow | Associated Press Connor McDavid’s award-winning season came with one regret. In earning his second career MVP honor Tuesday, the Edmonton Oilers captain wished his team was still playing. “We had a special group this year, and obviously we didn’t do what we wanted to do,” McDavid said, referring to the Oilers being
Fred Goodall | Associated Press Tampa, Fla. — Shea Weber’s wallet is a little lighter heading to Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final. The NHL on Tuesday fined the Montreal defenseman $5,000 for slashing Tampa Bay star Nikita Kucherov during the third period of the Canadiens’ 5-1 loss to the Lightning in the opener of the
We’ve touched on most of the options available to the Detroit Red Wings with the sixth overall selection. However, by virtue of the Anthony Mantha trade, Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman and his scouting team have an additional first round pick in this year’s draft: pick No. 22. As many options as Detroit is
Whether the Detroit Red Wings’ 2021-22 schedule will include a break for the Winter Olympics remains uncertain. But it will include helmet advertisements. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said Monday evening that “we have real concerns about whether it’s sensible for us to participate,” for the league to break for the Beijing Games — and with the
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, and Kyle Knopp are the muckers who make up THW’s forechecking
Detroit — When the Montreal Canadiens were last in Tampa, before COVID shut down the 2019-20 season, there was one complete day off on the schedule. So defenseman Jeff Petry, with connections to the Tigers’ organization given his father Dan pitched for the team and is now a television analyst, was able to hook up a
This is the third of a five-part series examining recent Detroit Red Wings drafts, leading up to the 2021 virtual event, scheduled for July 23-24. The Red Wings look like they’re going to get a boost from their 2018 NHL draft class over the coming seasons. There was a great deal of excitement for the Wings
The history of the NHL draft, or any draft, is filled with “coulda, shoulda, wouldas.” Player development and scouting is a guessing game that determines the strength of a team’s future. No team escapes the process without a couple of misses. The Detroit Red Wings are in the midst of a rebuild and have been
Deep in the throws of a from-the-ground-up rebuild, the Detroit Red Wings continue to have holes to fill within their lineup, and it’s the usual suspects are frequently called out. Goaltending and defense lead the way, mostly because their long-term goalie outlook is bleak, while their defensive output remains near the bottom of the league.
Every year, there seems to be a prospect or two at the top of that year’s draft class whose main “thing” is scoring goals. In 2018, it was Andrei Svechnikov (second overall) and Filip Zadina (sixth). In 2019, it was Cole Caufield (15th). Last year, it was Alexander Holtz (seventh). In 2021, that prospect is
Detroit’s “Big Four” professional sports teams — the Lions, Pistons, Red Wings and Tigers – have combined to win 22 championships over the past 120 years. And though it’s hard to believe, considering the city’s recent playoff drought — the last postseason victory by any of the four, a 2-0 win by the Wings over the
Editor’s note: This is the sixth in a series of profiles of the top prospects for the NHL Draft on July 23-24, 2021. Sweden’s Joakim Eriksson was a teammate of future Hockey Hall of Famer Henrik Zetterberg in the late 1990s before Zetterberg arrived in Detroit as a seventh-round draft pick and then won two
Detroit — After the hockey season Joe Veleno had, it’s understandable he’s relishing a little downtime. Veleno, you’ll recall, was loaned to Malmo in the Swedish Hockey League last autumn while pro leagues in North America were on hold because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and spent the hockey season in Europe. When the SHL season
By Tim Booth | Associated Press Seattle — The Seattle Kraken hired Dave Hakstol on Thursday as head coach of the expansion franchise that will begin play this fall. Hakstol will lead the first-year organization in his second head job in the NHL. He coached the Philadelphia Flyers for three-plus seasons from 2015-19 and spent the past two
Detroit Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman knows firsthand how much difference a highly ranked goaltender can make — and it has been on display during the semifinals of the Stanley Cup playoffs. The Tampa Bay Lightning, Montreal Canadiens, Vegas Golden Knights and New York Islanders all boast goalies drafted in the first round. Vegas’
Detroit — Marc Staal never has watched Moritz Seider play. He doesn’t know Seider, and has never talked to him. But, Staal has heard the conversations surrounding the Red Wings’ top prospect, the expectations, and the excitement around Seider’s potential. Seider, a defenseman like Staal, will be a young player with a lot of eyes on him next season.
Some prospects are more polarizing than others. Sometimes it’s a matter of where a player plays. Other times, it’s about how much they play. In the case of the prospect I’m highlighting today, it’s about how the prospect conducts themselves. Fabian Lysell is a very confident young man. He is so confident, in fact, that
Detroit — It may not be a frenzy, but there will be intrigue when NHL unrestricted free agency begins on July 28. With the salary cap still flat at $81.5 million for next season, many teams are again going to be cash-strapped with little room to navigate and add players. Plus, many of the top potential unrestricted free