The Detroit Red Wings experienced something new in 2017: Life in the draft lottery. On March 28, the Wings were eliminated from the playoffs, ending a playoff streak that began in 1991 and included four Stanley Cup championships. The Wings finished with the sixth-worst record, but that was also the year the Vegas Golden Knights
The Detroit Red Wings haven’t been mentioned–and it doesn’t seem like they would be in the Jack Eichel Trade Rumor bonanza that has gotten the attention of fanbases not playing in the semi-finals. All signs point to Eichel heading west and the New York Post’s Larry Brooks pencils in the Blackhawks as potential contenders to get the disgruntled
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On Sunday night, I realized that it had been a few years since a member of the Detroit Red Wings had won a major NHL award. Previously, it was an annual occurrence, with Nicklas Lidstrom’s Norris trophies and Pavel Datsyuk’s various awards becoming commonplace. At the very least, someone from the Red Wings was nominated
One of the biggest stories to come out of the NHL this week was that the Carolina Hurricanes have granted star defenseman and pending unrestricted free agent Dougie Hamilton permission to speak to other teams about a new contract. A veteran of 607 regular season games with the Boston Bruins, Calgary Flames and the Hurricanes,
Welcome to Re-Sign or Resign, a new segment covering the pros and cons of Detroit’s pending UFAs. We’ll be taking a closer look at each UFA while going over two schools of thought: re-signing the player, or letting him run free into the sunset. So far, we’ve covered Luke Glendening and Darren Helm. Today’s topic
Prospect Spotlight: McIsaac continues battling adversity on road to NHL “It’s tough. Mentally draining, like here we go again. Same ordeal,” McIsaac said to The Detroit News’ Ted Kulfan in May. “Obviously, back to back, and then something like (the sprained AC joint), especially when my game was starting to come around. But the resources
The Detroit Red Wings have drafted 33 players over the last three NHL Entry Drafts. Next month, General Manager Steve Yzerman will add 12 more picks to the stable of prospects. Although many of these players are several years away from ever playing in Detroit, many are getting closer to achieving their dream of playing
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We are getting ready to record Episode 73 of our NHL podcast “Fer Sure: A 200 Foot Podcast.” If you missed the last episode, you can catch up here. Our guest for this episode is the amazing Laura Saba. She covers the Canadiens for publications like Eyes on the Prize. She is one of the
When it comes to hockey, what is “skill”? It’s fair to conjure up memories of Pavel Datsyuk and his “Datsyukian dekes” when answering this question, but there’s more to it than that. “Everyone thinks skill is toe drags, picking it up over the net and doing one of (those) things. No, that’s parlor tricks. The
Welcome back to our Seattle Expansion Draft Series. If you haven’t read the first article that lays out the rules of the expansion draft, that would be a good starting point, as I’ll only give the very basic rules in each of these follow up articles. If you are interested in Detroit, that was the
NHLPA annual player poll: Detroit Red Wings don’t rate in any category The poll also revealed that 46.3% of players consider Toronto Maple Leafs forward Auston Matthews the best goal scorer; 64.7% consider the Lightning’s Victor Hedman the best defenseman, and 54.1% consider the Lightning’s Andrei Vasilevskiy the best goaltender. Matthews was also voted most
We’ve already went though a few of the 2021’s biggest boom or bust players and how they’d fit into the Detroit Red Wings. Now, let’s take a look at the player with one of the highest ceilings in the entire draft: Fabian Lysell. 2021 Season Lysell began his season playing his fourth year in Frolunda’s
How real have the rumors gotten when it comes to Jack Eichel? Pretty “intense” and though it would serve the Detroit Red Wings to go back to the Western Conference to make it happen according to insider Elliotte Friedman, can we dream for a bit before reality sets in? Friedman – I think there are
Nearly 500 NHL players have spoken, and the Detroit Red Wings don’t rate with them. The NHL Players Association released its annual survey Thursday, ranging in topics from favorites to fashionable — and, of course, the pandemic. COVID-19 prompted the league to use a 56-game, intra-divisional schedule that split 31 teams into four geographical groups in 2021. The
Detroit — The 2021 NHL Entry Draft will be unique in many ways. Rarely, if ever, has a draft class entered the NHL with so many question marks surrounding it. Because of the pandemic, many junior (and some North American college) leagues in North America and Europe were severely impacted. The vast majority of the prospects
A couple of weeks ago we analysed the teams eliminated in the first round to find what the Red Wings could learn from their mistakes, team construction, and any other relevant information. We broke the first round down into two parts, the teams eliminated in the East and Central divisions, and then the teams eliminated
Welcome to Re-Sign or Resign, a new segment covering the pros and cons of Detroit’s pending UFAs. We’ll be taking a closer look at each UFA while going over two schools of thought: re-signing the player, or letting him run free into the sunset. Earlier this week, we covered Luke Glendening. Today’s topic is the
OK, so technically this is yesterday when this posts, but it’s still one of the greatest moments in sports for me, so I’m definitely including this. Six examples that explain how the Islanders find success – Sportsnet.ca The New York Islanders have done something almost impossible in today’s NHL — play a committed style of