Detroit Free Press

Grading the 2022-23 Detroit Red Wings at midseason revealed growth and improvement. At season’s end, it was a matter of balancing the juxtaposition between the first four months and the last two months. Under new head coach Derek Lalonde, the Wings played better team defense, and performed better on special teams, which was encouraging. Three

This year, Detroit Red Wings forward Lucas Raymond is all in on wearing yellow and blue. The second-year forward has said yes to playing for Sweden at May’s World Championship, which is scheduled to be held in Tampere, Finland, and Riga, Latvia. That’s in contrast to last year, when Raymond said he didn’t have anything

Moritz Seider reflected on his second year with the Detroit Red Wings with his trademark optimism. Although, ultimately, the Wings fell short again in their quest to advance to the playoffs, they weren’t mathematically eliminated until there was just one week left in the season. That’s two weeks later than last year’s elimination date, and

How things might have gone had the Detroit Red Wings pushed back in late February has been lost to the unknown, but it is a situation the team wants to address. Being tough, as a team, doesn’t only mean fighting, but it is vital to letting opponents know they can’t resort to cheap shots. Dylan

Here’s the part that broke my heart. Lalonde said players came to him shortly before the March trade deadline and were optimistically still clinging to hope they’d make the playoffs. Hide Caption Steve Yzerman on Detroit Red Wings season, the rebuild, and what comes next Detroit Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman, April 14, 2023

One of the encouraging signs to come out of this past Detroit Red Wings season was the play of Michael Rasmussen. It ended with him limping off the ice in late February, but until that point, Rasmussen really had come into his own as a versatile, top-nine forward. “It was a positive year for me,”

It was hard to hear. It was like listening to parents admit their children were delusional, reaching far beyond their grasp. I’m gonna hit four home runs in my first Little League game! I’m gonna win the science fair with some baking soda and vinegar! I’m gonna ask Santa for Detroit Tigers playoff tickets! Yet

One of these days, one of these teams is gonna get it. No, not comeuppance. But the brass ring, or a helpful free agent at the trade deadline; that’d be nice, no? Instead of selling off good players for draft picks? Seems like it’s been forever since one of our four major pro teams did

Through most of his first season as the top goaltender for the Detroit Red Wings, Ville Husso was the team’s most valuable player. That he wasn’t able to sustain that strong play to the finish line dismayed Husso. His bosses, not so much. Husso finished the 2022-23 season with a 26-22-7 record, a 3.11 goals-against

One year later, everything has changed. For all of them. Detroit Tigers shortstop Javier Báez has gone from “Yes! Finally, the Tigers are spending some money” to “Ugh, I’m so sick of this, stop swinging at stuff in the dirt.” Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell has gone from “OK, he’s fun and a good quote

Four years into a Herculean labor, Detroit Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman offered a frank evaluation on how the rebuild has progressed. “It’s gone OK,” he said Friday, a day after the Wings finished 35-37-10 and a week after the Wings were eliminated from playoff contention for a seventh straight year. “I would love

I have a message for Detroit Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman. Actually, it’s more of a request. Maybe even a borderline desperate plea. Here it is: Please take my money! You see, my wife and I had plans to treat our couple friends to see a Red Wings game this season at Little Caesars

Derek Lalonde’s message in his end-of-season availability matched what he said when it began: The Detroit Red Wings weren’t good enough. “I will give this group credit,” Lalonde said Friday afternoon, the day after the Wings finished the 2022-23 season with a 35-37-10 record. “I did not see this as a playoff team — where

TAMPA, FLA. — Dylan Larkin brought it up. So did Moritz Seider and Derek Lalonde. The five-game losing streak that ended the Detroit Red Wings’ season with a 35-37-10 record benefitted their draft lottery odds, but that was scant balm for the guys who had just lost, 5-0, unable to muster even a single goal.