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The Detroit Red Wings once again had no luck in the NHL draft lottery, staying in the position in which they finished: Sixth. They had 7.6% odds of getting the first selection, which would mean they could have chosen from Michigan defenseman Owen Power, or forward Matthew Bernier. That pick went to the Buffalo Sabres,

The Detroit Red Wings should know shortly after 7 p.m. Wednesday whether their rebuild will receive  a huge boost. That’s when the NHL draft lottery will be conducted, with 16 teams vying for a chance to call out the first name at the virtual event July 23. Michigan defenseman Owen Power, who is currently playing

Detroit Red Wings newcomer Jakub Vrana is showing off his offensive touch at the 2021 IIHF World Championship. The trade deadline acquisition helped set up the tying goal and scored in the shootout as the Czech Republic rallied to defeat Denmark, 2-1, Monday in Latvia and push the Czechs into the quarterfinals. Vrana has two goals and

General manager Steve Yzerman isin his third offseason trying to improve theDetroit Red Wings, who have not advanced to the playoffs since 2016. Yzerman knows firsthand how hard it is to make the postseason, much less be a championship contender. It took Yzerman 14 years as a player to skate a lap with the Stanley Cup for the

By Viv Bernstein, Keith Gave and Steve Schrader |  Special to Detroit Free Press Twenty-five years ago almost to the day — as the calendar was about to flip to June in 1996 — the Detroit Red Wings sustained their most-crushing playoff elimination after their greatest regular season. The Free Press’ new book  — “Stanleytown: 25

Over the past two seasons, Jonathan Bernier has been the Detroit Red Wings’ most reliable player. He has provided the goaltending needed for his teammates to have a chance to win games, even as those teammates were prone to defensive lapses and struggled to score. Now Bernier’s contract is expiring, and general manager Steve Yzerman

While a primary focus for Detroit Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman this offseason is to add forwards who can generate offense, there’s another type of forward who warrants consideration. That the Wings need someone to, as the saying goes, keep the flies off their star players was never more evident than April 20 against  the Dallas

The Boston Bruins potentially have helped the Detroit Red Wings’ rebuild. The Bruins eliminated the Washington Capitals Sunday, ousting them from the first round in five games. The Wings hold the Capitals’ first-round pick in the 2021 draft from the Anthony Mantha trade, and that little nugget just got a bit shinier. The first 16 draft

I moved to Detroit in 1999 and I started working at the Free Press that August, when the paper’s office was located on Fort Street, just a few blocks from our current offices. I was a copy editor in the sports department, where we did the exciting work of journalism in a large, gray, windowless

The Detroit Red Wings haven’t had a defensive prospect this exciting in ages. Moritz Seider checks every box: Skill, size, physicality, personality. There’s been so much buzz about him that even those who’ve never seen him are intrigued. “I don’t know him at all,” Wings defenseman Marc Staal said last week during his exit interview

Tyler Bertuzzi is confident he’ll be back in front of opponents’ nets come fall,  which is great news for the Detroit Red Wings. The winger who combines grit and goal scoring in equal measure was lost to a back injury two weeks into the 2020-21 season, leaving the Wings’ offense shorthanded for most of the

The Detroit Red Wings have a 7.6% chance of getting to make the first pick in the 2021 NHL draft. A date for the draft lottery and odds for the 15 teams that didn’t advance to the playoffs and expansion Seattle were announced Wednesday, when the Vancouver Canucks finally wrapped up the final game of

Fourteen years ago, on the night the Detroit Red Wings were about to retire his No. 19 and hang it from the rafters of Joe Louis Arena, Steve Yzerman met with reporters and admitted something: He’s human. All of his decisions and actions don’t always work out. Shocking, eh? On that January night in 2007

Dylan Larkin still can’t swing a golf club, but at least he’s been able to shed the neck brace and drive his car. His season ended with a literal pain in the neck, suffered when Dallas Stars forward Jamie Benn pushed his stick into Larkin’s spine after a faceoff late in the April 20th game.

Dylan Larkin still can’t swing a golf club, but at least he’s been able to shed the neck brace and drive his car. His season ended with a literal pain in the neck, suffered when Dallas Stars forward Jamie Benn pushed his stick into Larkin’s spine after a faceoff late in the April 20th game.

Through two seasons of dissecting games, discussing personnel, dealing with drudgery and frustration and the knowledge that there’s no quick end to a rebuild, Jeff Blashill kept making the same impression on Steve Yzerman. His levelheaded approach and his determination to focus on long-term success played a key role in why Yzerman extended Blashill’s tenure into a

Steve Yzerman is keeping his coach. He has his reasons. They probably aren’t yours. Mostly because it’s harder for you to see them. Which means, for some of you, your thoughts about Jeff Blashill sticking around another year … or five — Yzerman declined to say how long he was extending his contract — may pit your desire to

Steve Yzerman chose to stick with what he knew when an opportunity arose to make a change behind the Detroit Red Wings bench. Yzerman extended Jeff Blashill’s tenure as head coach into a seventh season, 10 days after the end of the Wings’ 2020-21 season. “I feel our team is collectively very competitive,” Yzerman said.

Jeff Blashill’s tenure as coach of the Detroit Red Wings is headed for a seventh season. In a much anticipated — and, frankly, expected — announcement Tuesday afternoon, the organization tweeted that “executive vice president and general manager Steve Yzerman today announced that Jeff Blashill has agreed to a contract extension to remain head coach.”

In a move that should really surprise no one, the rebuilding Detroit Red Wings are keeping their coach Jeff Blashill at least another season. General manager Steve Yzerman on Tuesday said Blashill, who had just finished the final season of his contract, and the Wings organization had agreed to contract extension. Blashill is 172-221-62 in six seasons as