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Dan Petry now gets to watch his son, Jeff Petry play with the Detroit Red Wings organization after the team acquired the defenseman from the Montreal Canadiens.
[embedded content] Montreal Canadiens general manager Kent Hughes said he tried to “do the right thing” and trade Jeff Petry as soon as possible after reacquiring the Ann Arbor native and former Michigan State defenseman on Aug. 6. Nine days after Petry was part of a three-team trade with the Pittsburgh Penguins and San Jose
Detroit — The Red Wings continue to revamp their roster and add a local flavor to the lineup. The Wings announced Tuesday they acquired defenseman Jeff Petry from the Montreal Canadiens in exchange for defenseman Gustav Lindstrom and a conditional fourth-round pick in 2025. Petry, 35, played at Orchard Lake St. Mary’s and Michigan State
In a little more than a month, general manager Steve Yzerman pulled off two trades that project to significantly improve the Detroit Red Wings. And he did it without much of a cost to the team. This week’s acquisition of Jeff Petry, a right-shot defenseman whose history includes power play success, comes after July’s trade
Steve Yzerman swung another trade in his efforts to push the Detroit Red Wings back into the playoff picture. The Wings acquired Ann Arbor’s Jeff Petry on Tuesday from the Montreal Canadiens in exchange for little-used defenseman Gustav Lindstrom and a conditional fourth-round draft pick in 2025. The Canadiens retained 50% of Petry’s remaining contract,
Never mind football. The Detroit Red Wings announced their dates for training camp, a sure sign of fall. The Wings will again be embedded in Traverse City in their first formal get-together of the 2023-24 season, keeping up with a tradition begun by then-coach Scotty Bowman in the fall of 1997, when he brought the
Detroit — Football season is gearing up and baseball is winding down, which means hockey isn’t far away. That’s apparent, as the Red Wings Monday announced dates for the NHL Prospect Tournament and the Wings’ training camp, all at Centre ICE Arena in Traverse City, along with the annual Training Camp Golf Classic. The prospect
Detroit — So how does a kid from South Florida grow into a hockey player? For new Red Wings defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere, it was basically hanging around a rink day and night. “My grandfather is from Montreal so that helped, and he had season tickets to the (Florida) Panthers, so I went to every game
The Edmonton Oilers hired Connor McDavid’s longtime agent, Jeff Jackson, as their CEO of hockey operations. Jackson will report directly to owner Daryl Katz and work closely with president of hockey operations Ken Holland, the former Detroit Red Wings general manager. Katz called it a big commitment to the organization’s long-term success. “He (Jackson) brings
Rod Braceful’s first on-ice hockey experience was at Jack Adams Arena in Detroit after his godmother secretly stepped in and signed him up for learn-to-play lessons at four years old. Barbara Yancy-Braceful, Braceful’s mother and longtime school educator, didn’t think that he was serious about wanting to play hockey, so she didn’t sign him up.
Detroit — Maybe he’s on his patio, or on a recliner jotting notes, or possibly already in his office. Somewhere you have to believe coach Derek Lalonde already is scribbling line combinations and defensive pairings and wondering how to make the Red Wings’ lineup most effective. And doing so, Lalonde is likely realizing he has
Detroit Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin and former Ottawa Senators winger Alex DeBrincat will skate in a star-studded charity hockey game to support Senators assistant coach Bob Jones, who was diagnosed with ALS during the 2022-23 NHL season. Larkin and DeBrincat are now teammates after DeBrincat was traded to Detroit and signed a four-year, $31.5-million
Two draft picks of the Detroit Red Wings combined on the game-winning goal in Sweden’s 3-2 victory over Finland on Wednesday at the 2023 World Junior Summer Showcase at USA Hockey Arena in Plymouth. Defenseman Axel Sandin Pellikka, a first-round draft pick in 2023, scored the winner in the third period with the assist to