Growing Up a Red Wings Fan Jeff Stone | May 13, 2012 Growing up as a hockey fan in the 1990s, the Detroit Red Wings were an easy team to root for. Their fast, skilled game made them the antithesis of my…
Tomas Jurco: The Next Red Wings Star? Andrew Johnson | May 11, 2012 On Thursday night the QMJHL’s Saint John Sea Dogs became back-to-back President’s Cup winners, clobbering the Rimouski Oceanic 8-0 in the closing game of their Championship series sweep. The result…
Red Wings Throw Hat Into Goaltender Sweepstakes Andrew Johnson | May 4, 2012 “It wouldn’t be so bad to try and upgrade in goal behind Jimmy Howard if we can.” Those were Detroit Red Wings senior vice president Jim Devellano’s words during an…
Defensemen, Goaltenders Should Be Detroit Red Wings’ Draft Priorities Andrew Johnson | May 1, 2012 Teemu Pulkkinen, Calle Jarnkrok, Tomas Tatar, Tomas Jurco, Gustav Nyquist, Riley Sheahan; You’ve likely heard those names before. They’re some of the Detroit Red Wings’ most exciting prospects, all potential…
Roy “Gus” Giesebrecht, don’t forget the Last Detroit Red Wing Larry Berman | April 26, 2012 The 1942 Stanley Cup Final between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Detroit Red Wings was the first Cup Final in NHL history to go to a seventh and deciding…
Nicklas Lidstrom Should Retire Jeff Stone | April 26, 2012 In three out of their four playoff losses to the Nashville Predators the Detroit Red Wings fell by only one goal. Clearly, the biggest difference wasn’t the number of…
Top 20: Detroit Red Wings 2011-12 Highlights Andrew Johnson | April 25, 2012 If you’re like me, every day since their playoff usurping you’ve spent at least a little time reflecting on what went wrong for the Detroit Red Wings in 2011-12. Encased…
Fun With Numbers: 2011/2012 NHL Regular Season Edition Derek Neumeier | April 24, 2012 As another NHL regular season has passed us by, hockey stat junkies everywhere have another endless sea of numbers to sift through, everything from goals to goals against, shots on…
Thuggish Buffoonery: AKA The NHL Playoffs Joe Wilson | April 24, 2012 Ah, Spring… When otherwise sportsmanlike players make decidedly unsportsmanlike plays. In game one of the Predators/Red Wings series, the man on the left gripped Henrik Zetterberg by the back of the…
So You Want To Know Nicklas Lidstrom’s Future Plans? Andrew Johnson | April 24, 2012 Will Nicklas Lidstrom return for another season? That’s the most frequently asked question in Hockeytown (and perhaps the hockey universe) since the Detroit Red Wings were unceremoniously ejected from playoff…
Essential Hockey Read: Behind The Moves Christopher Ralph | April 21, 2012 The Essential Hockey Read & Reference: Behind the Moves: NHL General Managers Tell How Winners Are Built by Jason Farris (Foreward by Brian Burke) Like a Datsyukian breakaway clinical finish,…
Rinne Leads Preds to Round 2 Andrew Grimm | April 21, 2012 For the second straight season the Nashville Predators will advance to the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The Preds defeated the Detroit Red Wings 2-1 in game five…
