The love of hockey isn’t something inherent or happened upon for most people. Like many other sports, players spawn from those who played. Thanks to players, raising their families rinkside, many children grow to love the game and end up playing it. The sacrifice is great. The community and family found within the walls of
Detroit — Donovan Sebrango didn’t turn 19 until Jan. 12, just as many pro hockey leagues around the world were re-opening amid the pandemic. So, you have to imagine it was a bit strange for the teen Sebrango to walk into the Grand Rapids Griffins’ locker room weeks later where most players were three years older, or more. Some of the minor
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
For this episode, we have Laura Saba joining us to talk all things Canadiens. We got to some of your mailbag questions, and for those of you who follow Sara on Twitter, we got the latest on the saga of Stevie “The Killer” Yzercat. If you are using a podcast app, you can find both
What Went Wrong: Detroit, San Jose Their defense was still bad, but their goaltending situation was largely tolerable. Thomas Greiss finished with an 8-15-8 record with the Red Wings, but that was in part because of a lack of offensive support. In starts where he allowed two or fewer goals, he had a 5-5-4 record.
With the NHL draft a month away, Detroit Red Wings fans are beginning to pay close attention to the prospects projected in the first round. Steve Yzerman will have a couple of opportunities to add some top-end talent with the 6th and 22nd overall picks, but who will Yzerman select later in the draft –
Nelly Korda sunk a 5-foot birdie putt on the 18th green to win the 2021 Meijer LPGA Classic at Blythefield Country Club in Belmont, just outside Grand Rapids. Korda shot 5 under 67 on Sunday to finish 25-under-par 263, two strokes better than Leona Maguire, to win her fifth LPGA tour event. Maguire three-putted the 18th green
Red Wings Coach to Serve as Fourth of July Grand Marshal – Sault Ste Marie CVB The Sault Ste. Marie Fourth of July Parade has an extra spark of excitement this year with a homecoming for Detroit Red Wings head coach Jeff Blashill on tap. The Soo native will be serving as the parade’s first
The Detroit Red Wings experienced something new in 2017: Life in the draft lottery. On March 28, the Wings were eliminated from the playoffs, ending a playoff streak that began in 1991 and included four Stanley Cup championships. The Wings finished with the sixth-worst record, but that was also the year the Vegas Golden Knights
The Detroit Red Wings haven’t been mentioned–and it doesn’t seem like they would be in the Jack Eichel Trade Rumor bonanza that has gotten the attention of fanbases not playing in the semi-finals. All signs point to Eichel heading west and the New York Post’s Larry Brooks pencils in the Blackhawks as potential contenders to get the disgruntled
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On Sunday night, I realized that it had been a few years since a member of the Detroit Red Wings had won a major NHL award. Previously, it was an annual occurrence, with Nicklas Lidstrom’s Norris trophies and Pavel Datsyuk’s various awards becoming commonplace. At the very least, someone from the Red Wings was nominated
One of the biggest stories to come out of the NHL this week was that the Carolina Hurricanes have granted star defenseman and pending unrestricted free agent Dougie Hamilton permission to speak to other teams about a new contract. A veteran of 607 regular season games with the Boston Bruins, Calgary Flames and the Hurricanes,
Welcome to Re-Sign or Resign, a new segment covering the pros and cons of Detroit’s pending UFAs. We’ll be taking a closer look at each UFA while going over two schools of thought: re-signing the player, or letting him run free into the sunset. So far, we’ve covered Luke Glendening and Darren Helm. Today’s topic
Prospect Spotlight: McIsaac continues battling adversity on road to NHL “It’s tough. Mentally draining, like here we go again. Same ordeal,” McIsaac said to The Detroit News’ Ted Kulfan in May. “Obviously, back to back, and then something like (the sprained AC joint), especially when my game was starting to come around. But the resources
The Detroit Red Wings have drafted 33 players over the last three NHL Entry Drafts. Next month, General Manager Steve Yzerman will add 12 more picks to the stable of prospects. Although many of these players are several years away from ever playing in Detroit, many are getting closer to achieving their dream of playing
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We are getting ready to record Episode 73 of our NHL podcast “Fer Sure: A 200 Foot Podcast.” If you missed the last episode, you can catch up here. Our guest for this episode is the amazing Laura Saba. She covers the Canadiens for publications like Eyes on the Prize. She is one of the
When it comes to hockey, what is “skill”? It’s fair to conjure up memories of Pavel Datsyuk and his “Datsyukian dekes” when answering this question, but there’s more to it than that. “Everyone thinks skill is toe drags, picking it up over the net and doing one of (those) things. No, that’s parlor tricks. The
Welcome back to our Seattle Expansion Draft Series. If you haven’t read the first article that lays out the rules of the expansion draft, that would be a good starting point, as I’ll only give the very basic rules in each of these follow up articles. If you are interested in Detroit, that was the