Detroit Free Press

Free Press sports writers make their predictions for the Detroit Red Wings’ 2022-23 season. Jeff Seidel Best-case scenario: The Red Wings stay healthy and competitive, the newcomers jell, Lucas Raymond and Moritz Seider get even better, new coach Derek Lalonde pushes all the right buttons, Dominik Kubalik heats up, Jakub Vrana fills the net — everything

Dylan Larkin has heard it from Detroit Red Wings fans for months: This looks like it will be a fun season. General manager Steve Yzerman executed quite the offseason makeover, bringing in new players at every position, and a new head coach. With that has come a sense of optimism, and eagerness for the season

New Detroit Red Wings head coach Derek Lalonde made it official after four straight practices: Elmer Söderblom will make his debut Friday when the Wings open their season against the Montreal Canadiens – and Filip Zadina and Pius Suter will be watching. “It was a tough decision,” Lalonde said Thursday. “Went back and forth. We expect

Free Press sports writer Helene St. James breaks down the Detroit Red Wings‘ 2022-23 roster for Friday’s opening night against the Montreal Canadiens: F Tyler Bertuzzi Age: 27. Salary cap hit: $4,750,000. 2021-22 stats: 30 goals, 32 assists in 68 games. Food he’d eat every day if no consequences: Bacon. D Ben Chiarot Age: 31.

The 2022-23 Detroit Red Wings look and sound like a competitive team that will be fun to watch emerge from a rebuild. Steve Yzerman has done as a general manager what he was part of early in his playing career: Rebuild the franchise through the NHL draft, forging a core that will be the driving

Steve Yzerman often watches Detroit Red Wings practices from the family room overlooking the facility inside Little Caesars Arena, but sometimes he sits where the press sits. Whatever his point of observation, Yzerman’s input is invaluable to Derek Lalonde, the man tasked by Yzerman to coach the Wings towards a more competitive future. “It’s experience,”

Elmer Söderblom said his parents are hoping to arrive this week from Sweden, in time to see him play. It’s still not entirely clear whether that will be in Detroit or Grand Rapids. With the luxury of not starting the season until Friday, and with two spare forwards, the Red Wings coaching staff is evaluating

Derek Lalonde emphatically put Monday afternoon’s roster finalization in its place. “Everyone makes such a big deal on this day of who made the team,” the first-year head coach of the Detroit Red Wings said. “I don’t understand, I’ve never understood, the black-and-white ‘making the team.’ ” It is a big deal for the bean

Monday was a busy day across the NHL, with 23-man rosters due by 5 p.m. The paperwork has to be in the day before the league opens the season, and while the Detroit Red Wings don’t open till Friday, there are two games Tuesday. The Wings got to 23 by assigning multiple players, including Givani

Jake Walman needed a new number to wear, because the No. 8 he briefly wore last season with the Detroit Red Wings had been given to a newcomer. He liked his birth year, so he googled “Red Wings” and “96” to see what that would look like. The results came up with page after page

Having needed the bodies, the Detroit Red Wings took care of some business Sunday and reduced their roster — including assigning Simon Edvinsson to the minors. The Wings went 3-5 in preseason games, and got plenty of looks at young hopefuls. They were able to utilize two of them to get a look at a lineup

Derek Lalonde laughed when asked if he knew where he would have Simon Edvinsson playing when the Detroit Red Wings begin their season. It will, ultimately, be up to general manager Steve Yzerman, the man responsible for finalizing the 23-man roster due Monday. Edvinsson, Elmer Söderblom and Joe Veleno lead the brigade of bright young

The Detroit Red Wings got through their eighth and last preseason game with a mostly minor-league lineup. It was the opposite for the home team, as the Toronto Maple Leafs fielded many of their stars Saturday at Scotiabank Arena — and those stars provided the offense that left the Wings with a 5-1 loss. The Wings’

Digging out of a hole against a lineup heavy on AHLers isn’t an ideal way to impress the home crowd, but the Detroit Red Wings put in the work with help from a pair of young players angling for jobs. Their Friday matchup at Little Caesars Arena against the Toronto Maple Leafs was the penultimate

Robert Hagg has been cleared to play, which adds to the Detroit Red Wings‘ depth on defense. The free-agent signee was on the ice Friday morning in a contact sweater for the first time since he left the Red-White game Sept. 25 after getting hit in the head by a puck. “Skated today, felt pretty

A week out from their opener, the Detroit Red Wings are figuring out who their third defense pairing will be. The top four is set, with newcomers Ben Chiarot and Olli Mäattä pairing with Moritz Seider and Filip Hronek, respectively. The big question on the last pairing is whether 2021 first-round pick Simon Edvinsson will

As the Detroit Red Wings‘ eight-game preseason nears the end, the battles for roster spots is intensifying among the players hoping to be around next week. It’s a group that includes Simon Edvinsson, Jonatan Berggren and Elmer Söderblom, all of whom are angling to start their NHL careers, and Joe Veleno, who is trying to

Tyler Bertuzzi had a big night for the Detroit Red Wings on the road against the Washington Capitals on Wednesday night, with a goal and an assist, but goalie Ville Husso surrendered a power-play goal with 4:27 remaining in the Wings’ 4-2 loss at Capital One Arena. Bertuzzi opened the scoring for the Wings with

The drill was new to Lucas Raymond, but it was high energy and a nice way to break up the monotony of a long exhibition season. The Detroit Red Wings face their sixth preseason game Wednesday at the Washington Capitals, with a home-and-home against the Toronto Maple Leafs still on the horizon this weekend. It

Past the halfway point of exhibition season, the Detroit Red Wings used the lineup that in large part projects to be the one introduced when they open the season in 10 days. Monday’s game against the Pittsburgh Penguins at Little Caesars was marked the first time the Wings were playing after a complete day off