Shortly before the puck dropped, Steve Yzerman, general manager and former captain, noted how the current Detroit Red Wings had come through with a victory on Thursday when the 1997 Stanley Cup championship team was honored. The Wings came through again on Saturday after the 1998 team was honored at Little Caesars Arena, delivering a
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Detroit — Someone tell the Red Wings’ alumni to stick around a while longer. They certainly provided good luck and saw some winning hockey from the present Wings, too. With the 1997 and 1998 Stanley Cup championship teams in attendance, the Wings won their second consecutive game Saturday while the memories flowed, defeating the New
Steve Yzerman evoked all the right emotions as he capped a three-day celebration honoring the 1997 and 1998 Detroit Red Wings Stanley Cup championships. “For our ’98 team, this is a great opportunity for me to thank these gentlemen for the commitment they made, the selflessness they played with,” Yzerman said Saturday. “I can’t tell
The Detroit Red Wings have had a bout of bad luck recently with losing back-to-back games, some injuries, and most recently the two-game suspension of Michael Rasmussen, but this is by no means the end of the world. This season up to this point has had a whirlwind of good and bad, but it has
As one former player put it: “We all got older, a lot more grey, but the personalities are the same that they were 25 years ago.” Martin Lapointe summed up why the Detroit Red Wings’ three-day celebration of the 1997 and 1998 Stanley Cup championship teams was such a success: It gave him, Steve Yzerman,
Welcome back to Red Wings Weekly! In this weekly column, we like to 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
Detroit — Andrew Copp picked a good time for his first Wings’ goal, scoring the eventual game-winner Thursday against Washington late in the third period. Copp afterward was hopeful of maybe his first goal kind of opening the floodgates for many more. If that happens, great, as far as coach Derek Lalonde is concerned. But
When NHL teams elect to use a tandem in goal, it can go a number of ways. For example, the Boston Bruins’ tandem of Jeremy Swayman and Linus Ullmark each started 39 games last season, and both had a viable case to be “the guy” for their team in the playoffs. On the other end
In a recent article for the Toronto Sun, Nick Kypreos wrote that hockey fans should “keep an eye on the Detroit Red Wings” if the Vancouver Canucks shop Bo Horvat at this year’s trade deadline (from ‘Leafs are more than halfway through the John Tavares contract. Was it worth it?’, Toronto Star, 10/27/22). Kypreos noted
The Stanley Cup returned to Hockeytown on Thursday, but only as a brief visitor for the Detroit Red Wings’ 25th anniversary celebration of their 1997 championship. For a while there in those heady days of the late 1990s and 2000s, when the Wings claimed four Cups from ’97 to 2008, Stanley practically lived in Detroit,
As they turn their attention to their next game, the Detroit Red Wings have a clear memory of what works. They improved to 5-3-2 on the strength of a furious effort over the final few minutes of Thursday’s 3-1 victory against the Washington Capitals, when Andrew Copp scored, Ville Husso and the penalty killers nixed
Detroit − Fittingly on a night the Red Wings celebrated past Stanley Cup champions, fans Thursday were able to celebrate an exciting present-day Wings victory. Andrew Copp, the Ann Arbor native who cheered those 1997 and 1998 Cup winning Wings’ teams, scored his first goal as a Red Wing late in the third period, helping
On a night when the Detroit Red Wings celebrated their franchise at one of its best times, the current team had much to live up to. The evening’s events at Little Caesars Arena began with a ceremony honoring the 1997 Stanley Cup team. It was a joyful reminder of how good the Wings were 25
Game 10: Detroit Red Wings (4-3-2) vs. Washington Capitals (5-4-2) When: 7 p.m. Thursday. Where: Little Caesars Arena. TV: Bally Sports Detroit. Radio: WXYT-FM (97.1; Wings radio affiliates). ⋅ BOX SCORE MORE: Wings could use a player or two from 1997 Stanley Cup team, in town Thursday MORE WINGS:After so many disadvantaged seasons, power play a positive for Detroit Live updates
Scotty Bowman was as sharp as ever, Igor Larionov as thoughtful as ever, Brendan Shanahan as popular as ever, and the 1997 Detroit Red Wings as joyful as ever. Thursday’s 25th anniversary celebration brought together old teammates and longtime friends in a ceremony that heralded the days when the franchise was at its second zenith
Detroit – Igor Larionov is a head coach in Russia’s Kontinental Hockey League, and his team had games scheduled this week. But Larionov told his team he had to leave. The chance to celebrate the Red Wings’ back-to-back 1997 and 1998 Stanley Cup championships was important to attend. “This is a special event,” said Larionov,
Detroit — Robby Fabbri is still a good two months away from probably even thinking about playing a game. But just being out there for Thursday’s morning skate, while recuperating from his third ACL surgery in six years, Fabbri was able to further see how his knee was coming along and begin to get reacclimated
“Is there a right-shot center in there?” That’s who Derek Lalonde would like to pluck from Thursday’s festivities and sneak into the Detroit Red Wings’ lineup as they try to right themselves against the Washington Capitals. The 1997 Stanley Cup championship team will be celebrated beforehand — fans are encouraged to be in their seats at Little
Detroit — Jordan Oesterle was a preschooler in Dearborn Heights when the Red Wings won the 1997 and 1998 Stanley Cups and sent Detroit hockey fans into euphoria. The current Red Wings defenseman remembers some of the excitement, and for sure watched the videos growing up, became a Wings fan. But there was something, specifically,
Coming off of a stinging 8-3 defeat at the hands of the Buffalo Sabres, attention has been drawn to the Detroit Red Wings’ defense. The Red Wings have given up the ninth-most goals in the NHL (32), though their recent loss heavily inflated that total. Prior to that game, Detroit held an oftentimes explosive Minnesota
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