The Detroit Red Wings are a young and developing team. With a plethora of top prospects, could they add another abandoned name this off-season? The Detroit Red Wings currently hold the eighth overall pick in the 2022 NHL draft. That pick marks the Red Wings sixth straight top 10 selection. And if that doesn’t tell
On June 13, 2002 the Detroit Red Wings won their 10th Stanley Cup in front of their home fans at Joe Louis Arena. At the beginning of the season, this team winning the Cup seemed like a foregone conclusion. The 2001-2002 version of the Red Wings is considered to be one of the greatest teams
The Detroit Red Wings are the reason Frank Nazar III began playing hockey, and now he’s poised to potentially add a major dose of excitement to their rebuild. Nazar was among the players general manager Steve Yzerman and select members of his staff interviewed at the NHL combine earlier this month in Buffalo. It was
Detroit — The greatest hockey team ever assembled? A description like that, when you begin to analyze any championship team in any sport, is difficult because there are different eras, and opinions can be so subjective. But, obviously, the Red Wings’ 2002 Stanley Cup-winning team is right up there with any of the best. It was an amazing collection
Gene Myers | Special to Detroit Free Press In the spring of 1997 — a quarter-century ago — the Detroit Red Wings embarked on their quest to end a 42-year Stanley Cup drought. The Free Press has commemorated that historic quest with a new book: “Stanleytown 25 Years Later: The Inside Story of How the
As the 2021-22 postseason begins to wind down and teams vying for the Stanley Cup continue to try and clear their path to arguably the best trophy in all of sports, teams on the outside looking in are using this time to evaluate roster needs and potential draft scenarios. The Detroit Red Wings are one
Gene Myers | Special to Detroit Free Press In the spring of 1997 — a quarter-century ago — the Detroit Red Wings embarked on their quest to end a 42-year Stanley Cup drought. The Free Press has commemorated that historic quest with a new book: “Stanleytown 25 Years Later: The Inside Story of How the Stanley
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The next two seasons of the Detroit Red Wings’ rebuild depend largely on the development of the defensive corps. The Detroit Red Wings defensive corps is a large reason to why they have not found success in the last two seasons. Icing a single first-pairing defenseman and five third-pairing (press box or AHL) quality defensemen
Nearly one-third of the players on the U.S. team competing in this week’s under-18 women’s world hockey championship are training outside their home states at development programs such as Shattuck-St. Mary’s or Selects Hockey Academy. “There are certain areas of the country … where you’re not necessarily going to be close to an ice rink,”
Gene Myers | Special to Detroit Free Press In the spring of 1997 — a quarter-century ago — the Detroit Red Wings embarked on their quest to end a 42-year Stanley Cup drought. The Free Press has commemorated that historic quest with a new book: “Stanleytown 25 Years Later: The Inside Story of How the Stanley
Nearly 30 years ago, goaltender Sean Gauthier was Kris Draper’s teammate when Draper was traded for a dollar to the Detroit Red Wings from the Winnipeg Jets on June 30, 1993. Now, with the 2022 NHL Draft less than a month away on July 7-8, Gauthier’s son could be selected by Draper, the four-time Stanley Cup
Steve Yzerman has quite the “to-do list” this summer. The Draft is next month, free agency, and all of that on top of finding the next head coach of his team. It’s tough to guess who Yzerman’s top candidates are, but rumors are swirling. Fluto Shinwaza, the senior editor for The Athletic’s Boston beat, had
Detroit — The Red Wings aren’t going to allow as many goals as they did this past season. Goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic is making sure of that. At his season-ending press conference in May, Nedeljkovic was passionate on the subject of the Wings’ goals-against. The Wings allowed 310 goals, or 3.78 goals-against per game, which was next-to-last in