Red Wings Fan Blogs

I’ve included some of my thoughts with each post about the Red Wings’ free agent signings this summer but tried to hold off on any kind of overarching themes until the team was done making moves.  Given that general manager Steve Yzerman addressed the media yesterday, it’s safe to assume the big moves are done.

34 mins ago After spending most of the time since the opening of free agency revamping the team’s defense and goaltending, Detroit Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman turned to the forward unit on Wednesday, signing free agent Vladimir Tarasenko and trading Robby Fabbri to the Anaheim Ducks. HEADED TO THE TARASENK-SHOW! The #RedWings today

The Red Wings kicked off their summer Development Camp this week and, as has become their tradition, didn’t publicly announce jersey numbers for any of the attendees. This has led to me scoring photos and videos from camp to try to assemble a full roster with numbers, only for George Malik of The Malik Report

2 hours ago The Detroit Red Wings added goalie Jack Campbell on a one-year deal on Monday. UPDATE: The #RedWings today signed goaltender Jack Campbell to a one-year contract with an AAV of $775K. pic.twitter.com/mrz2uxnfr8 — Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) July 1, 2024 The deal is worth $775,000. Campbell was bought out by the Edmonton

The Detroit Red Wings added two Swedish defensemen on Monday, signing Erik Gustafsson and William Lagesson to contracts. UPDATE: The #RedWings today signed defenseman William Lagesson to a one-year contract with an AAV of $775K. pic.twitter.com/ULnGXFKIHD — Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) July 1, 2024 Erik Gustafsson 2 x $2M Detroit — Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) July

46 mins ago The Detroit Red Wings signed veteran goalie Cam Talbot to a a two-year deal on Monday. UPDATE: The #RedWings today signed goaltender Cam Talbot to a two-year contract with an AAV of $2.5M. pic.twitter.com/qsLSb8HpoA — Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) July 1, 2024 The deal carries a cap hit of $2.5 million. Talbot

3 hours ago Forward Patrick Kane is staying put, signing a one-year contract extension with the Detroit Red Wings just before he would have become a free agent. THE SHOW GOES ON IN HOCKEYTOWN! The #RedWings have signed Patrick Kane to a one-year contract extension. pic.twitter.com/U4mNlHc7Bm — Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) July 1, 2024 The

1 hour ago In the second of a pair of trades on Tuesday, the Detroit Red Wings sent defenseman Jake Walman to the San Jose Sharks. UPDATE: The #RedWings today traded a 2nd round pick in the 2024 NHL Draft (originally Tampa’s) and Jake Walman to the San Jose Sharks in exchange for future considerations.

2 hours ago The Detroit Red Wings announced their schedule for the 2024 preseason on Monday. Detroit’s exhibition schedule had become somewhat predictable over recent years but this schedule sees some changes. Per usual, the Wings will play four home games and four road games, including home and away games against their traditional preseason opponents

1 hour ago Two new names have seemingly been added to the list of possibilities for the NHL’s new Salt Lake City-based franchise: Utah Mammoth and Utah Ice. Trademark applications were made for those names on Tuesday on behalf of Uyte, LLC.  Uyte still has not been proven to be tied to Utah NHL owners

Meaningful games in March and April. That was the goal last fall, supposedly, so by that metric we should consider the 2023-24 Detroit Red Wings’ season a success. Of course it’s not that simple.  With a seemingly-massive lead in the playoff race after tearing through their January and February schedule, it looked like those meaningful

1 hour ago Another possible Utah NHL team name has entered the fray: Utah Outlaws. A trademark application for that name was filed by Uyte, LLC, on Friday.  Uyte is the company that filed trademark applications for five names on Tuesday and added one for “Utah Yetis” on Thursday. It should be noted that the

I said last week that I expected the search for what was then a potential NHL Utah team name to be much different than what we’ve seen in the past and that’s already proving to be true. Since then, the NHL Board of Governors has met and officially voted to establish a new franchise in

20 mins ago Well, it’s over. The Detroit Red Wings’ up and down season ended with a whole lot of up but it wasn’t enough as they didn’t control their own fate and the Washington Capitals’ win over the Philadelphia Flyers put the Caps in the playoffs and the Red Wings out. I’ll have more

2 hours ago Stupid Stat of the Day for April 16, 2024; Montreal Canadiens vs. Detroit Red Wings. Stupid Stat of the Day: The Red Wings are winless all-time in their final game of the regular season when their previous two games went to overtime. #LGRW #RedWings https://www.detroithockey.net/2024/04/16/ssotd-red-wings-vs-canadiens-4-15-2024-2/ [image or embed] — DetroitHockey.Net (@detroithockey.net) Apr

2 hours ago Stupid Stat of the Day for April 15, 2024; Detroit Red Wings vs. Montreal Canadiens. Stupid Stat of the Day: Since the NHL’s Great Expansion in 1967, the Red Wings have never made the playoffs in a year when their regular season home finale was a loss to the Montreal Canadiens. #LGRW

2 hours ago Stupid Stat of the Day for April 13, 2024; Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Detroit Red Wings. Stupid Stat of the Day: In the last 50 years, the Red Wings are unbeaten in their antepenultimate game of the season when it is played against the Toronto Maple Leafs and followed by a home-and-home

If you’ve been following this space for long enough, you know that I have an interest in sports branding and, historically, have been able to get some ideas of what new teams might be called by monitoring domain name and trademark registrations. I had predicted that Vegas would probably be the Golden Knights months before

2 hours ago Stupid Stat of the Day for April 11, 2024; Pittsburgh Penguins vs. Detroit Red Wings. Stupid Stat of the Day: The Red Wings are winless all-time against the Pittsburgh Penguins in games played on April 11. #LGRW #RedWings https://www.detroithockey.net/2024/04/11/ssotd-penguins-vs-red-wings-4-11-2024/ — DetroitHockey.Net (@detroithockeynet@social.detroit.hockey) April 11, 2024

46 mins ago Stupid Stat of the Day for April 9, 2024; Detroit Red Wings vs. Washington Capitals. Stupid Stat of the Day: April 9 is the latest in the schedule calendar that the Red Wings have ever faced the Washington Capitals in a regular season game. However, Game 78 is the earliest that the