Detroit Free Press

Invigorated by a big win on the road, the Detroit Red Wings returned home and tested themselves against an Original Six rival. A lively crowd at Little Caesars Arena on Saturday provided energy as the Wings took on the high-power Toronto Maple Leafs, 24 hours after winning in a shootout at Pittsburgh. The Wings had a two-goal

PITTSBURGH — Filip Zadina didn’t just end a drought, he ended with the type of play the Detroit Red Wings have urged him to make. When Zadina scored Friday at PPG Paints Arena it marked the first time since Nov. 30. Both nights the Wings won on the road — Friday, 3-2 in a shootout; back

PITTSBURGH — Calvin Pickard got a doozy of an assignment for his first start of the season: Sidney Crosby and the high-octane Pittsburgh Penguins. With No. 1 goalie Alex Nedeljkovic having made seven straight starts and backup Thomas Greiss unavailable, the Detroit Red Wings went with Pickard on Friday night at PPG Paints Arena. He

Justin Abdelkader is taking advantage of the NHL’s decision not to send its players to Beijing. The former Detroit Red Wings forward was released from his stint with the Grand Rapids Griffins to serve as an alternate for Team USA at the Olympics. Abdelkader, who turns 35 in February, signed a professional tryout contract with Detroit’s AHL

Detroit Red Wings (18-19-6)vs.Pittsburgh Penguins (27-10-6) When: 7 p.m. Friday. Where: PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh. TV: Bally Sports Detroit. Radio: WXYT-FM (97.1) (Red Wings radio affiliates). • Box score  Game notes: Detroit enters the game having lost three straight. The Wings racked up five goals in Tuesday’s loss to the Chicago Blackhawks but the defense took the night off, ceding

Jakub Vrana stoked a bit of excitement at practice, even though he’s not close to coming back and helping his Detroit Red Wings teammates. They are focused on going into Pittsburgh on Friday and nipping a three-game skid that has left the Wings 18-19-6 and feeling a bit red-faced about their defensive game. The Wings expect to

An Ontario mother is calling for change after learning she housed ex-NHL player Reid Boucher as a junior hockey player just months after, by his own admission in a 2021 criminal case, he sexually assaulted a girl in 2011, when she was 12 and he was 17. Sherri Boyd, 54, had her own 11-year-old daughter

Taking strides offensively won’t give the Detroit Red Wings the results they want unless their defense follows the pace. It is a humbled Wings team that heads into weekend games at the Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday and at home against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday after giving up a season-high eight goals. The Wings scored

An unfamiliar feeling came over me as I drove to Little Caesars Arena on Wednesday night. It had been years since I had sensed something welling up inside me as I drove downtown on a frigid winter evening to watch the Detroit Red Wings. The throng of bustling fans who used to stream into Joe

Goalie Alex Nedeljkovic was on the bench when his teammates tried to clean up their mess, only to come up with their worst wreckage of the season. The Detroit Red Wings gave up four goals in the first period Wednesday at Little Caesars Arena, and then gave up another four in the third period, to fall to

The Detroit Red Wings like what Joe Veleno brings to the lineup, but there’s no question the young forward can do more. Veleno joined the Wings when he was called up from the minors at the end of October. It was a memorable day and night for Veleno, who hitched a ride from general manager Steve

Pius Suter wanted to give back to the man who picked him off the free agent pile, to show it was a smart investment. He already played his former teammates when the Detroit Red Wings went into Chicago Oct. 24, but that was near the start of the season. The Blackhawks make their appearance at

Someday soon, Michigan hockey’s talented 2021-22 roster will migrate to the NHL, where the Wolverines will exchange their matching maize-and-blue sweaters for conflicting colors. They’ll get an early taste of that in February in the Beijing Olympics, as Team Canada became the latest squad to announce a team with a healthy Wolverine presence. On Tuesday,

Landon Ferraro, who the Detroit Red Wings drafted instead of Ryan O’Reilly, was among 14 forwards named to represent Canada at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing next month. Hockey Canada revealed its roster Tuesday. The NHL pulled out of attending in December because of the many games that at that time had to be