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Red Wings Depleted Defense Corps
November 29th, 2016 The Detroit Red Wings’ will have to play without the services of Brendan Smith for the next three to four weeks. It is yet another blow to an already depleted blue line. The team lost Alexey Marchenko (likely out of action for another week) to an upper-body injury on November 20th, and they are using Niklas Kronwall sparingly, due to...
Young Red Wings Provide Hope
November 25th, 2016 The Detroit Red Wings sit with a 9-10-1 record through 20 games this season, placing them 14th in the Eastern Conference. Certainly, both the fanbase and the team were hoping for a better start to the year, even if most assumed the Wings would struggle this season. Although they got off to a 6-2-0 start through their first eight...
Red Wings Plan for Brendan Smith
November 21st, 2016 Coming into the 2016-17 season, the Detroit Red Wings were hoping defenseman Brendan Smith would take a step forward and emerge as a well-rounded, top-four defenseman. Now at the quarter point of the season, Detroit has eight healthy blueliners on the roster and Smith is one of the two watching from the press box. With Smith, the Red...
Young Red Wings Complicate Roster Decisions
October 31st, 2016 Red Wings’ general manager Ken Holland will have to make a few decisions regarding the roster in the next couple of weeks. Tomas Jurco should return sometime during the second week of November, and while Niklas Kronwall has continued to practice with the team, the timetable for his return remains unclear. The Red Wings are tight with...
The Grind Line: Ranking Red Wings Defensemen
October 24th, 2016 After Ken Holland was unable to add a premier defenseman to the Detroit Red Wings blue line this summer, the team was forced to enter the season with a collection of second and third-pairing defenders on the roster. Making matters worse, it was determined that veteran leader Niklas Kronwall would require additional time to rest his...
Making Sense of Red Wings’ Roster Moves
October 11th, 2016 It has been a confusing couple of days for the Detroit Red Wings’ fanbase. General manager Ken Holland decided to place a handful of players on waivers this past Saturday, which included Martin Frk. By now, you know that the Carolina Hurricanes claimed the 23-year-old winger on Sunday. The Wings’ general manager followed that up by...
