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Jack Adams

Red Wings NCAA Prospects: Postseason Week 1 Recap

Delaney Rimer | March 10, 2023

The best time of the year is back once again — college hockey playoffs! The Detroit Red Wings have a handful of promising prospects playing across the NCAA, and it’s…

Categories Red Wings Prospects

Jack Adams, the Man and the Award

Tony Wolak | November 18, 2020

Few people have had a more transcending impact on the NHL than legendary coach and general manager Jack Adams. For 36 years, Adams led the Detroit Red Wings organization in…

Categories Hockey History, NHL Coaching, Red Wings History

Red Wings Outdoors: Ranking the Classics

Tony Wolak | December 10, 2018

Even if the Detroit Red Wings are not playing in them, the NHL’s outdoor games remain special. These heavily promoted events are more than just two- or three-point contests in…

Categories Detroit Red Wings, Winter Classic

The Equality Behind the Detroit Red Wings Logo

Tony Wolak | August 14, 2017

Over the weekend, a disgraceful organization ripped off the Detroit Red Wings logo and used it as their own in a Charlottesville, Virginia white supremacy protest. This description is the…

Categories Commentary, Detroit Red Wings, Editor's Choice

50 Years Ago in Hockey: Jack Adams Wins Patrick Trophy

Rick Cole | December 21, 2015

On a light news day, we look at some notes, tidbits and general happenings around the world of hockey. Jack Adams Wins New Lester Patrick Award Jack Adams, former general…

Categories Column, Hockey History

Willie Desjardins is Deserving of Jack Adams Consideration

Markus Meyer | April 7, 2015

View image | gettyimages.com Over the years, the Jack Adams award, supposedly given out to the NHL’s best head coach in any given season, has been doled out to the…

Categories Vancouver Canucks

The Life of Mr. Hockey

The Hockey Writers | January 31, 2015

Review of Mr. Hockey: My Life by Gordie Howe For anyone who wants to learn more about hockey why not start with a book by the person known affectionately as…

Categories Hockey Books

When Bobby Orr Played Like Sandy Koufax

Ross Bonander | December 2, 2013

Back in the early 1950s, Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay were two-thirds of the Production Line on the Stanley Cup champion Detroit Red Wings. Howe was arguably the best player…

Categories Hockey History

Handicapping the 2013 NHL Awards

Tyler Kerdman | February 26, 2013

One-third of the way into the shortened NHL season, there has hardly been a lack of surprise and excitement. The Chicago Blackhawks have yet to lose in regulation, the Buffalo…

Categories NHL News

How Could the New York Rangers Pass on Gordie Howe?

Michael Rappaport | January 5, 2013

The New York Rangers missed out on getting some of the game’s best players in the last decade of drafts, but their biggest miss came much longer ago, in Mr. Hockey, Gordie Howe.

Categories Detroit Red Wings, Hockey History, New York Rangers

Book Review- “Hockeytown Doc” Gives Readers Rare Perspective

Ross Bonander | October 1, 2012

“I’d never before seen a player  leave the bench and go into the medical room in the middle of a game unless he was injured and needed immediate attention ……

Categories Detroit Red Wings, Hockey Books, Hockey History

Book Review: The Lives of Conn Smythe

Rebecca Dobrinski | November 20, 2011

The Lives of Conn Smythe: From the Battlefield to Maple Leaf Gardens: A Hockey Icon’s Story .  By Kelly McParland.  (2011, Toronto: FENN/McClelland & Stewart Ltd. Hardcover. Pp. 370. $32.99.…

Categories Hockey Books, Hockey History, New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs
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