Winging It In Motown

Our roster looks a lot different this year, and every trade season without fail there are at least a few people melting down as their most special boy is handed off to another team (see: the recently ejected Vlad Namestinov and, of course, His Eliteness Darren Helm First of His Name and Faceoff Specialist Luke
Red Wings only team without regulation loss, but Lalonde says ‘pump the brakes’ – MLive “Anytime you’re building a new process, if you get results, it helps,” he said. “We’ll go through many games this year where we don’t get results with a good process and vice versa. The process has been pretty good, buy-ins
Maybe he didn’t mean who we thought he meant when with the “Hi Mom” message. Why Red Wings’ Derek Lalonde had goose bumps on the bench – MLive “The pressure routes have been excellent, but now we’re starting to get some detail within our pressure, some stick detail, some good habits,” Lalonde said. “Like anything
Detroit Red Wings enjoy seeing Ben Chiarot ‘running around and killing people’ – Freep “I think he felt he got a little hit from behind there,” coach Derek Lalonde said. “He joked after the second that a few years ago, that probably would have been 15 minutes of penalties after taking a hit like that.
Face-off improvement among details Red Wings focusing on – MLive “We don’t have a right-shot face-off guy, so there’s going to be nights it looks like that,” he said. “It’s on our lefties to be better in the dot and it’s on all five of us to be improved with our face-off intensity.” We gotta
Red Wings haven’t called Karen Newman to sing national anthem this season – Freep Essentially, she’s been ghosted — an inelegant thing to do to the team’s most consistent performer through more than a thousand games. But she’s powering through it, the same way she did on those nights when her throat was raw but
Tonight the Red Wings took on an old rival in the Chicago Blackhawks. Both teams were coming off long layoffs with Detroit not having played since Monday but Chicago had gone almost a full week, not playing since Saturday. Detroit was of course without Bertuzzi and Vrana tonight giving an opportunity for Kubalik and Zadina
Updates We may have second-line Raymond and top-line Perron. That’s the update. Predicted Lineups Red Wings Kubalik-Larkin-PerronZadina-Copp-RaymondSöderblom-Rasmussen-SundqvistSuter-Veleno-Erne Chiarot-SeiderMäättä-HronekLindström-Hägg NedHusso (As always with goaltending, that could change, but polls are leaning Ned.) Blackhawks Athanasiou-Domi-KaneT.Johnson-Toews-RaddyshKurashev-Dickinson-LaffertyKhaira-Entwhistle-Blackwell J.Johnson-S.JonesTinordi-MurphyMcCabe-C.Jones MrazekStalock Keys to the Game Special teams not “special” teams: our units haven’t been god awful, let’s keep it that way,