The Detroit Red Wings played more to the identity they seek, getting pucks in deep and doing a solid job defensively. They took Thursday’s game at BB&T Center in Sunrise, Florida, to overtime before falling, 3-2, to the Florida Panthers. The Wings went 2-4-2 in the season series, falling to 12-21-5 Alex Wennberg scored at 1:25
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The Red Wings have seen enough of the Florida Panthers this season. The Panthers completed the season series against the Wings with a 3-2 overtime victory Thursday on Alex Wennberg’s goal at 1:26 of the extra session. Wennberg wheeled around the net and beat goaltender Thomas Greiss from in front, and kept the Panthers in the race
Now that it’s April, the Detroit Red Wings only have a few more days to move out players ahead of the 2021 NHL Trade Deadline. As sellers, it’s surprising to see that the Red Wings have not completed a trade so far this season. So like last year, I put on my general manager hat
Usually injury news isn’t particularly exciting during a long NHL season, as injuries are a way of life for any team during the long season. But in this case it was noteworthy, considering who it was. Goaltender Jonathan Bernier and forward Tyler Bertuzzi are both beginning to skate. They’re both with the team on this current
For the first time in two months, Tyler Bertuzzi is on the road with the Detroit Red Wings. When he’ll be on the ice with them is harder to forecast, but he’s running out of time. The Wings’ grittiest forward hasn’t played since leaving a game Jan. 30 with a sore back. There was no
Over the last 108 games, spanning across both the 2019-20 and 2020-21 season, the Detroit Red Wings have won just 29 of them. Of those 29, goaltender Jonathan Bernier accounts for 23 of them. Jimmy Howard, Thomas Greiss and Calvin Pickard round out the total with two victories each. In a sport where the results
Detroit – COVID-19 has forced numerous sports leagues, from the pros to the preps, to adjust and go about their seasons differently. Coaches and players have had to adapt like never before to protocols that are new and binding against the spread of the virus. The American Hockey League has been no different. The NHL’s
Welcome to Red Wings Wednesday Weekly! In this weekly column, we will take a look at the Red Wings’ most-recent week of play, identify any players and/or trends that stood out, and then look ahead and find out what the next week may have in store for the team from Hockeytown. As always, feel free
One of the biggest National Hockey League legends was born on this date. The number 100 was prominent as many members of the Hockey Hall of Fame set personal milestones. Let’s begin our daily trip back in time and relive all the best moments that March 31 has given us over the decades. Happy Birthday,
Show Caption Hide Caption Dylan Larkin: Red Wings have to show more energy on the road Detroit Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin, March 30, 2021. Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press Going on the road keeps tripping up the Detroit Red Wings, even when they’ve just played some of their best hockey of the season.
Starting on the Thursday, the Tigers’ Opening Day, you may start seeing a large golf cart driving 25 mph in the streets of downtown. GEST Carts, a golf cart service, will take you where you need to go in and around downtown Detroit — for free. The company is a franchise that is already up and running in Cincinnati and Chicago.
Just as they’d built a modicum of confidence, a good opponent dismantled it. The Detroit Red Wings fell behind early Tuesday at BB&T Center against the Florida Panthers, and their attempts to rally were denied by Sergei Bobrovsky. A two-game winning streak ended with a 4-1 loss, in the first of four straight games in the sunshine
A terrible start Tuesday dearly hurt the Red Wings. Harkening back to some of the recent bad starts, the Wings allowed three goals in the 7 minutes 35 seconds — including the first one 17 seconds into the game — and it proved to be too much to overcome, losing to Florida 4-1 Filip Zadina
Danny DeKeyser knew this was going to be a different type of hockey season, in so many different ways. Sure there was the COVID-19 factor, and the challenges on and off the ice that presented. But, personally, DeKeyser was returning to game competition after missing a little more than a calendar year. DeKeyser, 31, had
The adages can be heard echoing through the empty locker rooms in ice rinks across North America. Clichés such as “play a full 60 minutes,” “the first goal is the most important,” and “work to get the next one,” linger in the air, as heavy as an early morning fog. In the NHL, these phrases
The sunshine state awaits the Detroit Red Wings as they try for a third time to build on a nascent winning streak. Calvin Pickard enters a week that features miniseries at the Florida Panthers and Tampa Bay Lightning as the Wings’ X-factor, so dubbed by captain Dylan Larkin after helping them win consecutive games. 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
Is it corny to say that he’s the engine that drives the team from the Motor City? Ask any general hockey fan to name a player on the 2020-21 Red Wings, and chances are that the name Dylan Larkin will be the first that comes to mind. He’s the token “good player on a bad
Detroit — By all rights, Michael Rasmussen probably should have been playing in Grand Rapids two seasons ago, in his first rookie pro season. But Rasmussen, having mastered junior hockey and technically not able to join Grand Rapids, hewas essentially stuck being on the Red Wings’ roster. It was a tough situation for Rasmussen, now 21
Dana Gauruder | Special to Detroit Free Press Michael Rasmussen had to sweat out his first NHL goal in more than two years for a few extra minutes. The young Detroit Red Wings center hopes he can reach the point where he didn’t have to fret about his spot on the roster. Detroit’s 2017 first-round