Mark Falkner | The Detroit News It was nearly a year ago at Little Caesars Arena when Ottawa Senators coach D.J. Smith heard the news that forward Bobby Ryan had left the team indefinitely after the morning skate and wouldn’t be in that night’s lineup against the Detroit Red Wings. Ryan checked himself right away into
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Associated Press | The Detroit News The Los Angeles Kings have signed No. 2 overall draft pick Quinton Byfield to a three-year contract. The Kings announced the entry-level deal Friday with Byfield, a powerful 6-foot-5 center from Ontario. The 18-year-old Byfield is likely to play another year of junior hockey before he moves to the
Ted Kulfan | The Detroit News Show Caption Hide Caption Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman on why signing players to short-term deals is preferable Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman discusses why he is preferring to sign players to short-term deals. Detroit – Jan Bednar is familiar with Red Wings goaltenders. Bednar is from the Czech
Helene St. James | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Kyle Aucoin talks kinship with another 2020 Red Wings draft pick Kyle Aucoin, a 2020 draft pick by the Detroit Red Wings. Oct. 15, 2020. They are the long shots of the drafts, the players who, if they become regulars in the NHL, are
Ted Kulfan | The Detroit News Show Caption Hide Caption Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman on what lures free agents to Detroit Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman says the club’s historical standing as an Original Six member of the NHL, as well as a chance to play right away, are major selling points. Detroit — This
Helene St. James | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption How Steve Yzerman convinced Bobby Ryan to join Red Wings New Detroit Red Wings forward Bobby Ryan on a Zoom call, Oct. 9, 2020. His former players laid bare just how strange it could be to have Scotty Bowman as their coach, for a
Mark Falkner | The Detroit News Last week, Sam Stange was a fourth-round pick of the Detroit Red Wings in the 2020 National Hockey League draft, a 6-foot-1, 200-pound power forward who will make his Big Ten hockey debut next month for the University of Wisconsin coached by former NHL forward and ex-Red Wings assistant coach Tony
Stephen Whyno | Associated Press Patrick Marleau is back with the San Jose Sharks to chase down a record held by Gordie Howe. Marleau rejoined San Jose on Tuesday, signing a one-year deal worth the league minimum of $700,000. The 41-year-old can now break Howe’s all-time NHL games played record in the Sharks uniform he
Ted Kulfan | The Detroit News Detroit — It could have been easy because of the pandemic to put it off a year, but there was no way Ken Daniels was going to do that. The work being done, and to be done, because of the Jamie Daniels Foundation Celebrity Roast is too important. Daniels’ son
Helene St. James | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Steve Yzerman assuaged Marc Staal’s shock after trade to Red Wings Detroit Red Wings newcomer Marc Staal on a Zoom call, Oct. 13, 2020. A conversation with general manager Steve Yzerman soothed Marc Staal, turning feelings of shock into a sense of opportunity. Selling players on
Ted Kulfan | The Detroit News Detroit — Marc Staal was a bit floored when initially told the New York Rangers, the only team Staal had played for, were trading him. The news shook him, as you’d expect. But after being told it was to the Red Wings, who happened to have the NHL’s worst record last
Mark Falkner | The Detroit News Wes McCauley’s rise to the top of the National Hockey League officiating ranks began to take shape as a freshman on the campus of Michigan State in 1989. He just didn’t realize it at the time. Now the NHL’s most animated official whose dramatic pauses and amusing calls after disputed goals
Helene St. James | Detroit Free Press Ken Daniels is passionate about one message in particular: Addiction is ruthless. It is a nondiscriminatory disease, and those afflicted should not feel shame, he says. It is a subject Daniels came to embrace because of a devastating personal loss — a loss he and his wife have turned into
John Niyo | The Detroit News Show Caption Hide Caption Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman on why signing players to short-term deals is preferable Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman discusses why he is preferring to sign players to short-term deals. It helps to have a clean sheet of ice. The passes are crisper, the turns
Stephen Whyno and John Wawrow | Associated Press Alex Pietrangelo is Vegas bound, and the Golden Knights are shuffling the deck to fit him in. Pietrangelo signed a $61.6 million, seven-year deal with Vegas on Monday that carries an $8.8 million annual salary cap hit through 2027. It’s the fifth-biggest cap hit for a defenseman
John Niyo | The Detroit News Show Caption Hide Caption Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman on why signing players to short-term deals is preferable Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman discusses why he is preferring to sign players to short-term deals. It helps to have a clean sheet of ice. The passes are crisper, the turns
Ted Kulfan | The Detroit News Detroit — Two pieces of important business for general manager Steve Yzerman to tackle are new contracts for two of his most important players. Restricted free-agent forwards Tyler Bertuzzi and Anthony Mantha are both without contracts, but Yzerman sounds optimistic something will get done. In the grand scheme of
Helene St. James | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Steve Yzerman: Why players are intrigued to play for Red Wings Detroit Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman on a Zoom call, Oct. 12, 2020. Steve Yzerman used free agency to bolster the Detroit Red Wings at every position — not with marquee signings but
The Detroit News Ted Kulfan takes a look at Red Wings’ free agent additions Thomas Greiss, Bobby Ryan and Jon Merrill, and the NHL’s first female player Manon Rheaume is the special guest on episode 39 of OctoPulse, taking the pulse of Year 2 of Steve Yzerman’s rebuild. Here are some of the highlights from Saturday’s
John Wawrow | Associated Press Buffalo, N.Y. — The Buffalo Sabres are banking on Taylor Hall to turn what was a long and unsettled offseason into a far brighter immediate future. Buffalo became the surprise team to win the Hall free-agency sweepstakes by signing the 10th-year forward and six-time 20-goal-scorer to a one-year, $8 million