The Red Wings have long been known for their reliance on veteran players to carry the production. This year was one of the first where the bulk of it came from young players, while the vets were counted on to guide them through the hills and valleys of an NHL season.
At this point of the rebuild, the focus for the Red Wings has focused to the young players with their whole careers ahead of them. That doesn’t bode well for someone like Justin Abdelkader, who benefited greatly earlier in his career from playing with one of the NHL’s all-time greats, Pavel Datsyuk.
All management changes in professional sports come with uncertainty. Will the new guy clean house? Will the old guy take his favorites with him to his new location? The Red Wings have been no exception to this with all of the shuffling happening between them and the Edmonton Oilers. When Steve Yzerman took over, it…
If you’re looking for a reason to be invested in this year’s playoffs, here’s a tiny one. The Red Wings have a 2nd round pick on the line with the San Jose Sharks.
In case you somehow missed it, Ken Holland was officially named general manager of the Edmonton Oilers today. Despite signing a multi-year extension to move up the Red Wings head office hierarchy, Holland decided his time as a GM was not over. So he departed the team and city that he called home for the…
After a couple weeks of conflicting reports on this very topic, it appears that Ken Holland has finally made a decision in regards to the general manager position in Edmonton: he’s going to accept it.
The rumours started earlier this year that Pavel Datsyuk may be considering a return to the NHL. They were initially described as “whispers”, with the 41-year-old unwilling to confirm or deny his intentions past this year. Well, the whispers have turned into loud voices as Datsyuk announced the end of his time with SKA St….
When the Detroit Red Wings announced that Steve Yzerman was going to be their new general manager a few weeks ago, speculation took off about what would happen with Ken Holland.
Today we were treated to a Q&A with Steve Yzerman courtesy of Craig Custance at The Athletic. In between games at the U18 World Chapionship in Sweden, Craig spoke to the Red Wings new general manager about some big (and small) prospects and his overall draft philosophy.
The theme of Steve Yzerman‘s Friday morning press conference was patience. Maybe four or five times throughout the hour-long event at Little Caesars Arena, Yzerman tempered expectations by saying that this is going to take time. And he has all the time in the world. Not only is he a new general manager in Detroit,…
Today, the NHL started to announce the finalists for some of the awards that are to be handed out for the 2018-19 season. One of these awards, the King Clancy Memorial Trophy, required each team to submit a nominee. The Red Wings named Jimmy Howard as their 2018-19 nominee.
Don’t cry, be tough. Early into the documentary about former NHL tough guy Bob Probert, these words are uttered by the man himself. A lesson he learned from his father, the words act as a loose thread that’s pulled, unravelling over the course of the film as it exposes every bump, bruise, and scar that…
