The greatest player in the history of the National Hockey League had his fair share of memories on this date throughout his career. Also, on Oct. 9, we’ve seen new franchises hit the ice for the first time, new players leave their mark on the game and plenty of personal milestones by some of the
The Detroit Red Wings signed winger Bobby Ryan to a one-year, $1 million deal at the open of free agency. The 33-year-old has the distinction of being the first player chosen after Sidney Crosby in the 2005 Entry Draft. Originally drafted by the Anaheim Ducks, he spent six seasons with the Ducks before he was
Helene St. James | Detroit Free Press . Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman talks on 2020 class Detroit Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman talks after the 2020 draft. Oct 7, 2020. Steve Yzerman continues a trend of low-risk moves to improve the Detroit Red Wings. Soon after free agency began at noon Friday, he signed forward
Ted Kulfan | The Detroit News Detroit — The Red Wings are in a much better position today than they were last week, for sure last season, and now heading into the future. That’s the opinion of draft analysts and national commentators after this week’s Entry Draft. The organization is deeper, and general manager Steve Yzerman
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Ted Kulfan | The Detroit News Detroit — The Red Wings made their first dip into free agency on Friday, signing local defenseman Jon Merrill and forward Bobby Ryan. A Grand Blanc and Brighton native, Merrill signed a one-year contract worth $925,000, according to TSN. Merrill, 28, played in 49 games last season with Vegas,
There are many different ways to build a championship-caliber team. The make-up of the 2020 Tampa Bay Lightning is way different from the make-up of the 2019 St. Louis Blues. Keep going back through championship teams and you’ll find one constant: they’re all built up in a way that highlights their strengths. Related: Steve Yzerman,
Helene St. James | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman talks on 2020 class Detroit Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman talks after the 2020 draft. Oct 7, 2020. As much as Steve Yzerman’s grand plan is to nurture the Detroit Red Wings into a Stanley Cup contender via drafting
Oct. 8 is another extremely busy day in National Hockey League history. One of its greatest players ever signed his first professional contract. This date has seen a little bit of everything including some big moments in California and Montreal, a new fixation with rats and the league’s first-ever third-generation player. Red Wings Sign a
After waiting for almost a year, the event that most Red Wing fans have been waiting for has finally come and gone: the 2020 NHL Draft. General manager Steve Yzerman has been a busy man over the last few days – no more so than during the elongated second day of the draft. But the
Ted Kulfan | The Detroit News Here is a list of top 20 unrestricted free agents that are hitting the market at noon Friday, as compiled by Detroit News sports writer Ted Kulfan: ►Alex Pietrangelo, defenseman, St. Louis: Excellent player, great captain, just won the Stanley Cup a year ago. Shocking the two sides couldn’t work
Ted Kulfan | The Detroit News Detroit — The draft is done. Now it’s off to the next check list for the Red Wings’ offseason. Unrestricted free-agency in the NHL begins at noon Friday, but what that’ll exactly mean for the Wings and other NHL teams is a question mark. Because of the current NHL economic landscape,
Now that the Detroit Red Wings have 12 new prospects in their pipeline, they can turn their focus to free agency, which is scheduled to open up Friday at noon. During a recent Zoom call, general manager Steve Yzerman noted that the organization would once again approach free agency conservatively. And once the 2020 NHL
After an eventful Day 1 of the 2020 NHL Entry Draft, we saw some movement among several teams. The New York Rangers sent a former seventh overall pick to the Los Angeles Kings, the Edmonton Oilers resolved their saga with Jesse Puljujarvi and the Detroit Red Wings loaned a former first-round pick to Sweden. Rangers
Helene St. James | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman talks on 2020 class Detroit Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman talks after the 2020 draft. Oct 7, 2020. Detroit Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman expressed hope after the 2020 NHL draft that he increased the odds that “a
Helene St. James | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman talks on 2020 class Detroit Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman talks after the 2020 draft. Oct 7, 2020. Detroit Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman got two of his restricted free agents signed Thursday, extending a guy he brought
Ted Kulfan | The Detroit News Detroit — The Red Wings stayed busy Thursday, signing forwards Adam Erne and Taro Hirose to one-year contract extensions. Both players were potential restricted free agents. Erne, 25, played in 56 games, scoring five points, before a lower-body injury ended his season. Erne’s 142 hits ranked second on the
Mark Falkner | The Detroit News Thirteen players and two alumni from the National Team Development Program in Plymouth were selected in the 2020 NHL draft. A day after U18 captain and defenseman Jake Sanderson was taken fifth overall in the first round, the NTDP had four players taken in a row during the second round.
Ted Kulfan | The Detroit News Detroit — Moritz Seider will be playing hockey in Sweden this season. Seider, the Red Wings’ 2019 first-round draft pick, has been reassigned from German-league team Mannheim to Rogle BK, in the Swedish Elite League. The SEL has mandated that NHL prospects such as Seider must remain there for 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, Devin Little, Ian McNaughton, and Tony Wolak are the muckers who make up THW’s forechecking unit and