DETROIT – Knowing that idle hands are the devil’s workshop, Brendan Smith has decided to go back to school during what will be a long offseason. The Red Wings’ defenseman plans to return to the University of Wisconsin to continue working on his......
DETROIT – Now that they’re out of the Stanley Cup playoffs, five Red Wings have accepted invitations to represent their countries in the upcoming International Ice Hockey Federation Men’s World Championship. Forward Justin Abdelkader and defens......
DETROIT – As disappointed players cleaned out their lockers at Joe Louis Arena Tuesday, there was plenty of talk as to what went wrong and how the Red Wings can return to Stanley Cup contention next year. Last Saturday, the Boston Bruins won th......
DETROIT – It was worst than anyone knew. As the Red Wings cleaned out their locker room at Joe Louis Arena on Tuesday, Stephen Weiss revealed that the sports hernia – which forced the Red Wings’ center to miss more than two-thirds of the regula......
BOSTON – In the end, it was the Boston Bruins’ experience and patience that did in the Red Wings in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Tuukka Rask, Zdeno Chara and Milan Lucic also had something to do with eliminating Detroit in five ......
BOSTON – The test wasn’t so much the game but how he felt the next day. Henrik Zetterberg did not practice Friday after he played more than 19 ½ minutes in his playoff series debut a day earlier, but he was glad to report no acute or chronic pa......
BOSTON – Saying his team needs more punch along the blue line, coach Mike Babcock has decided that rookie defenseman Xavier Ouellet will make his Stanley Cup playoff debut when the Red Wings face elimination in their best-of-seven game series with......
DETROIT – Adversity is nothing new to the Red Wings. According to their 421 man games lost, they’ve lived with hardship all season. Now that they’ve one loss from being eliminated in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, misfortune has s......
DETROIT – Brendan Smith expects the partisan crowd inside Joe Louis Arena will detonate once the captain’s name is announced over the sound system prior to Game 4 of the Red Wings best-of-seven Stanley Cup playoff series against the Boston Bruins......
DETROIT – How much of a boost will Henrik Zetterberg’s return be for his teammates as the Red Wings head into a pivotal Game 4 of the best-of-seven Stanley Cup playoff series against the Boston Bruins? It’ll likely be off the charts as it could......
DETROIT – Goalie Jimmy Howard is a late scratch for the Red Wings in tonight’s pivotal Game 4 of their best-of-seven Stanley Cup playoff series with the Boston Bruins. Howard will miss Thursday’s game with the flu, the Red Wings announced. B......
DETROIT – The story lines were aplenty inside an electrified Joe Louis Arena Thursday night. But none of them mattered much after Dougie Hamilton’s point shot in overtime ruined an otherwise perfect day filled with several intriguing subplots f......
DETROIT – For the Red Wings to have any success against the Boston Bruins in Game 4, they'll need to throw more at Tuukka Rask than eight-tentacled cephalopods. Getting traffic in front of Rask will be critical if the Red Wings expect to turn a......
DETROIT – Red Wings captain Henrik Zetterberg was guarded when asked by reporters Wednesday about the likelihood of a return for Game 4 against the Boston Bruins at Joe Louis Arena. “I’m not ruling out the morning skate,” Zetterberg said. “I ta......
DETROIT – Like an older playground bully, the Boston Bruins pushed enough Tuesday night to finally take back what originally belong to them. The Bruins gave away their home-ice advantage in Game 1, but forcefully took it back by soundly defeati......
DETROIT – Joakim Andersson will make his 2014 Stanley Cup playoff debut tonight when he replaces veteran forward Daniel Alfredsson in the Red Wings’ Game 3 lineup against the Boston Bruins at Joe Louis Arena. “Alfie needed another day, so Ander......
DETROIT – Playing physical in the Stanley Cup playoffs is one thing, but playing physical and smart is the approach the Red Wings need to focus on as their best-of-seven series against the Boston Bruins shifts to Joe Louis Arena for Game 3 on Tues......
BOSTON – Self-inflicted errors and penalties cost the Red Wings a chance to grab a 2-0 series lead and an opportunity to put a stranglehold on their best-of-seven first-round playoff series against the Boston Bruins as the scene now shifts to Detr......
BOSTON – Both Mike Babcock and Claude Julien met briefly with the media prior to Sunday's Game 2 of the Red Wings-Bruins first-round Stanley Cup playoff series. Coach Julien said defenseman Matt Barkowski will sit out for the second straight ti......
BOSTON – Boston Bruins forward Milan Lucic admitted to acting out of frustration when he pitch-forked the Red Wings’ Danny DeKeyser just before the second intermission of Friday’s Game 1 of the teams’ opening-round Stanley Cup playoff series. “......