The 2018 NHL Entry Draft is roughly eight months away but it’s never too early to start getting familiar with some of the names that will be announced at the American Airlines Arena in Dallas, Texas, next June. This year’s class is considered to be much deeper than 2017’s and is full of impactful talent. […]

Paul Coffey, one of the most prolific blueliners to ever play in the NHL, once perfectly described the intrinsic quality that makes for a great leader in the game of hockey: Leadership is one of sports’ intangibles. Guys can score, guys can fight, guys can skate faster than anybody else. But not everybody can say, […]

The Detroit Red Wings’ most recent first-round draft picks are finding success early on in the Western Hockey League season. Defenceman Dennis Cholowski, drafted 20th overall in 2016, and big-bodied centerman Michael Rasmussen, Detroit’s ninth overall pick last June, have both started strong for their teams in 2017-18. Both selections were met with a fair […]

The Detroit Red Wings drafted both Martin Frk (49th overall) and Andreas Athanasiou (110th overall) in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft. However, Frk, who was claimed by the Carolina Hurricanes via waivers last October only to be reacquired by Detroit less than a month later, is off to an impressive early start with the club […]

The Detroit Red Wings will need their younger stars to step up in 2017-18 if the team has any aspirations to once again reach the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and apparently, some of those players got the memo on opening night. Dylan Larkin, Anthony Mantha, and Martin Frk each found the back of the net in […]

Henrik Zetterberg, the captain of the Detroit Red Wings, has led his team in points for three consecutive NHL seasons. Now, as he approaches 37 years of age, and the Wings begin to rely more heavily on some of their talented young forwards, will the bearded-leader once again outproduce his younger colleagues? What he did […]

When the Detroit Red Wings selected Michael Rasmussen ninth overall in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft he became the team’s highest first-round pick since the team drafted Keith Primeau third overall in 1990. Like Dennis Cholowski, the Wings’ 2016 first-round draft pick, Rasmussen’s selection was met with a great deal of criticism from Hockeytown’s faithful, […]

Rumors of the Detroit Red Wings trading Riley Sheahan have heated up over the last week. The reigning back-to-back Stanley Cup Champion Pittsburgh Penguins, are the team most linked to Sheahan. Jason Mackey of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette believes that a trade between Pittsburgh and Detroit for Sheahan would be mutually beneficial: Consider that Sheahan will make […]

Just a few short weeks ago Henrik Zetterberg admitted to Swedish media that he would likely only play two more years in the NHL despite having four years left on his contract. News of the Detroit Red Wings captain’s plan to retire early came as a surprise and is a decision that will ultimately cost the […]

Many of the Detroit Red Wings’ top junior players were on display this week at the annual NHL Prospect Tournament. The Wings’ youngsters squared off against prospects from Carolina, Chicago, St. Louis and the New York Rangers, finishing the tournament in sixth place with a record of one win and three losses. While a winning […]

Henrik Zetterberg, the captain of the Detroit Red Wings, revealed his intention to retire before the completion of his current NHL contract. During a recent interview with a Swedish radio station, Henrik stated that he currently plans on playing two more years with the Red Wings despite being signed with the team through the 2020-21 […]

It’s no secret that Ken Holland and the Detroit Red Wings value Justin Abdelkader. To be more specific, Holland and company believe that Abdelkader is worth $4.25 million annually, a price tag that doesn’t sit well with most fans in Hockeytown. Despite the criticism of Justin’s seven-year extension in 2015, Holland truly believes the 30-year-old […]

The Detroit Red Wings are currently navigating through some unfamiliar territory, salary cap trouble. Detroit, one of the NHL’s most successful teams during the pre-salary cap era, is now anticipating being over the cap at the beginning of the 2017-18 season in October, an issue that will undoubtedly have an impact on the team’s roster […]

Michael Rasmussen, the Detroit Red Wings’ 2017 first-round draft pick, has officially signed a three-year entry-level contract with the team. Rasmussen, Detroit’s second-highest draft pick since selecting Keith Primeau third overall in 1990, has been a controversial topic in Hockeytown, to say the least. When Ken Holland and company announced the 6-foot-6 center’s name as […]

Niklas Kronwall, once one of the most formidable and hardest hitting blue-liners on the Detroit Red Wings, is facing one of the harshest truths that every professional athlete must come to terms with, that the human body can only take so much punishment. Due to a lingering and debilitating knee injury, the 36-year-old veteran defenseman […]