Posts About "Frans Nielsen"
Recap: O'Reilly Leads Sabres past Red Wings
January 21st, 2017 The Buffalo Sabres have struggled to win games against their division opponents throughout the season, with a 4-9-3 record in the division entering Friday night. The Detroit Red Wings came into the night on a three-game winning streak and are starting to get healthy. The Atlantic Division is down this year and neither team is out of it...
Nielsen an Odd All-Star Pick
January 11th, 2017 On Tuesday, the NHL revealed the final 40 players who will participate in the 2017 NHL All-Star Game. The fans already had selected captains (Carey Price, Atlantic; Sidney Crosby, Metropolitan; P.K. Subban, Central; and Connor McDavid, Pacific) for each division. The NHL selected the rest of the participants, with each division being...
Thomas Vanek's Price Tag
December 22nd, 2016 When general manager Ken Holland traded Pavel’s Datsyuk’s contract to the Arizona Coyotes during the summer, he freed up $7.5 million for the Detroit Red Wings to pursue free agents. The team landed their “big fish” when they signed Frans Nielsen to a six-year, $5.25 million AAV contract. With the remainder of their recently...
Islanders Struggling to Replace Nielsen
December 6th, 2016 The New York Islanders lost three free agents last summer and all were a big part of the team's recent success, but the one player they miss the most is Frans Nielsen. The versatile center made his emotional return to Barclays Center Sunday evening as a member of the Detroit Red Wings. His loss is most keenly felt throughout the...
Assessing Red Wings' Offseason Acquisitions
November 28th, 2016 When Pavel Datsyuk decided that he wanted to leave the Detroit Red Wings to finish his career in Russia, it handcuffed the team with his $7.5M cap hit for the 2016-17 season. General manager Ken Holland got creative and moved the Magic Man’s contract to the Arizona Coyotes, effectively giving the team some wiggle room with the salary...
Nielsen a Perfect Fit with Wings
November 28th, 2016 Over his 8-year career with the New York Islanders Frans Nielsen was valuable in more ways than one - not only was he a dependable faceoff ace and two-way center, but he was also nearly automatic in the shootout with his lightning-quick rising backhander. Over his career he has had 17 game-deciding shootout goals and scored on 42 of his...
Analyzing the Red Wings Forward Lines
October 11th, 2016 With the final Detroit Red Wings roster taking shape, we’re able to get a better understanding of how coach Jeff Blashill will pencil in his forwards for their season opener against Tampa Bay. After waiving Martin Frk, Teemu Pulkkinen, and Mitch Callahan, plus announcing that Andreas Athanasiou made the team over Anthony Mantha,...
Red Wings World Cup Takeaways
October 1st, 2016 Now that the 2016 World Cup of Hockey is over, the participating Detroit Red Wings players are set to join their teammates for the remainder of the preseason. Team Europe forwards Tomas Tatar, Frans Nielsen, and Thomas Vanek were the last to be eliminated, having lost to tournament host Canada and Mike Babcock. Even with captain...
Projected Red Wings Scoring Statistics
September 26th, 2016 Entering Jeff Blashill’s second year with the Detroit Red Wings, fans are hoping the team can rebound from a season in which the Red Wings struggled mightily with the offensive side of the game. Earlier this month, TSN’s Scott Cullen released his Top 300 Projected Scorers for the upcoming 2016-17 NHL campaign. THW’s Jacob...
Wings at the World Cup: Nielsen, Tatar and Vanek
September 14th, 2016 The Detroit Red Wings are sending seven players to compete in the eight-team 2016 World Cup of Hockey in Toronto. The series “Wings at the World Cup” will feature each of those players and the impact they will have on their respective teams as well as will chronicle that player’s history of international play. Frans Nielsen,...
The Grind Line: World Cup Implications for Wings Players
August 23rd, 2016 The World Cup of Hockey is just one month away, and the eight-team tournament is sure to affect the Red Wings in a multitude of ways. The participating players — Justin Abdelkader, Niklas Kronwall, Dylan Larkin, Alexey Marchenko, Petr Mrazek, Frans Nielsen, Tomas Tatar, Thomas Vanek and Henrik Zetterberg — will compete against...
Sorting Through the Detroit Red Wings Centers
July 22nd, 2016 With the acquisitions of Frans Nielsen and Steve Ott on July 1st, the Detroit Red Wings added two more natural centers to go along with the six they already have under contract. Let’s put all eight—Nielsen, Ott, Henrik Zetterberg, Dylan Larkin, Riley Sheahan, Andreas Athanasiou, Darren Helm and Luke Glendening—under the...
Thomas Vanek Joins Familiar Faces in Red Wings Locker Room
July 20th, 2016 Following the lowest goal and point totals of his career in 2015-16, Minnesota bought out the final year of Thomas Vanek’s contract. Officially a free agent on July 1, the Detroit Red Wings signed Vanek to a low-risk, high-reward deal worth $2.6 million for one year. At 32, Vanek is a candidate for a bounce back year that should see...
