DETROIT - Never again will a Red Wing wear No. 5. It just wouldn’t be the same to watch anyone but Nicklas Lidstrom pull that jersey over his shoulders. “Nick Lidstrom was everything you could ever want in a Red Wing,” said Christopher Ilitch, ......
DETROIT - For 20 years, every time Nicklas Lidstrom stepped onto the ice at The Joe, he looked at the banners that hung high in the arena’s rafters. “We always started practice whether you’re stretching on the ice, you looked at the Stanley Cup......
DETROIT – Late Tuesday night, general manager Ken Holland scrapped his original plans to enhance the Red Wings’ defense as the league’s Wednesday trade deadline approached. Learning of Darren Helm’s undisclosed head injury during the second pe......
NEWARK, NJ – For the first time since leaving the Red Wings last summer, Damien Brunner is looking forward to finally facing some of his former Detroit teammates tonight at the Prudential Center. “Yeah, should be a fun game with all of the face......
NEWARK, NJ – Joakim Andersson knows what’s at stake tonight when the Red Wings try to stretch their post-Olympics winning streak to three straight games. For the sixth time this season both Henrik Zetterberg and Pavel Datsyuk are out of Detroit......
With 22 games in the next 41 days, the end of Detroit’s regular season may be in sight, but the club’s injuries are most certainly not. Center Pavel Datsyuk, who suffered a lower-body injury in January, didn’t practice Monday and will not make ......
DETROIT – It didn’t take long for Johan Franzen to heat up after missing two months with post-concussion symptoms and even less for the league to recognize the Mule’s immediate impact. Franzen’s five-point performance in back-to-back wins at Mo......
Former Red Wings defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom may have been the last of seven inductees to be welcomed into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame Friday night, but he was certainly not least. One by one the MSHOF Class of 2014 was introduced and cele......
DETROIT – For the second time in three days, legendary defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom will attend a Red Wings’ game when he and close friend, and former teammate, Tomas Holmstrom, take in Friday’s contest against the Anaheim Ducks at Joe Louis Arena......
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DETROIT – Red Wings center Stephen Weiss has been eyeing Wednesday, February 25 ever since he was sidelined by a sports hernia in December. But although he’s been on track to return for Detroit’s trip to Montreal, Weiss will not be available for e......
Red Wings coach Mike Babcock can add one more bullet point to his resume: the only coach to lead one country to back-to-back Olympic gold medals. With a 3-0 victory over Sweden Sunday, Canada won its second straight gold medal and third of the ......
With the television in the Red Wings’ dressing room broadcasting the 2014 Winter Games Saturday afternoon, it was too much for Tomas Jurco to bear, his first Olympic experience still fresh in his mind. v “It’s hard for me to watch it right now ......
With a berth to the gold-medal game on the line in an intense rematch of the 2010 Olympic finals, Canada once again earned a narrow victory over the USA in the tournament’s last semifinal game Friday. “We were on top of the puck, we were winni......
Sweden won gold in 2006, and will play for gold again in 2014. An early favorite to win the tournament, the Swedes overcame injuries to captain Henrik Zetterberg and Henrik Sedin to secure an Olympic medal for their country. Only time will tel......
DETROIT – If anyone sees both sides of the debate over NHL players taking part in the Winter Olympics it is Red Wings associate coach Tom Renney. The last Canadians coach to lead a men’s ice hockey team completely comprised of amateurs to the O......
With all eyes on Friday’s Olympic semifinals, the players in the Red Wings’ dressing room had plenty of input on how their countries and teammates will fare for the remainder of the tournament. Sweden and Finland will face off in the first sem......
As the Red Wings resumed practice this week, forward Johan Franzen and center Stephen Weiss weren’t the only two working to return from injuries. Defenseman Jakub Kindl, who missed Detroit’s final two games leading up to the Olympic break with a s......
DETROIT – Following a 10-day Olympic break, the Red Wings’ non-Olympians were back at practice Wednesday afternoon, including Johan Franzen and Stephen Weiss. Seeing the two veterans practicing with the team is a terrific sign. Perhaps it’s als......
Red Wings forward Daniel Alfredsson knows the danger of a matchup between a No. 2 and No. 8 seed all too well. But unlike Sweden’s shocking loss to Belarus at the 2002 Winter Games, the top-seeded Swedes shut out the first-time Olympic Slovenia te......