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Detroit Red Wings - 20-Feb-2014

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......

Detroit Red Wings - 19-Feb-2014

Mike Babcock won’t be the only coach with ties to the Red Wings’ organization when Canada and Latvia face-off in Wednesday’s quarterfinals at the Sochi Olympics. Buffalo Sabres interim coach Ted Nolan led Latvia to just its third-ever Olympic v......

Detroit Red Wings - 19-Feb-2014

As the Olympic tournament’s final qualification games concluded Tuesday, two of the Red Wings’ first-time Olympians saw their experience in Sochi come to an end. Forwards Tomas Tatar and Tomas Jurco will leave the 2014 Winter Games without a s......

Detroit Red Wings - 19-Feb-2014

The newly-formed Russian Hockey Hall of Fame used Monday’s off day in the Olympic hockey tournament to unveil the first 146 inductees, including four with ties to the Red Wings’ organization. Although the museum is more than a year from being c......

Yahoo! Sports - 18-Feb-2014

s final practice before the qualification round, and his coach insisted the superstar forward is not injured. ''He's OK,'' Russian hockey coach Zinetula Bilyaletdinov said Monday. ''Just a rest.'' Kovalchuk missed the final minutes of the second period in Sunday's win over Slovakia after appearing to hurt his right ankle. Bilyaletdinov said, ''he's OK,'...

Yahoo! Sports - 18-Feb-2014

Michael Finewax gives his thoughts on the preliminary round of the Olympic Hockey tournament in The Dose....

Detroit Red Wings - 17-Feb-2014

SOCHI -- Sweden has had more than its fair share of high-profile injury issues thus far at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, and it came close to yet another one Monday. This one would have been the worst one yet. After losing Detroit Red Wings forwa......

Detroit Red Wings - 17-Feb-2014

Defenseman Drew Doughty ended the preliminary tournament on a strong note Sunday night in Sochi, scoring both of Canada’s goals, including the game-winner in overtime, to help the country to a 2-1 victory over Finland. The overtime win solidifi......

Detroit Red Wings - 17-Feb-2014

More than 70 different Red Wings have participated in the Winter Olympic Games at some point of their hockey careers. Twenty-seven have represented their nations as Red Wings, including Canadian Greg Johnson, who was allowed to play in the 1994 Li......

Detroit Red Wings - 16-Feb-2014

Wings center Pavel Datsyuk was just 16 months old when his home country was upset by the USA in the “Miracle on Ice.” Thirty-four years later, Datsyuk captained Team Russia in a tense rematch of that historic game in the 2014 Winter Games, scoring......

Detroit Red Wings - 16-Feb-2014

It has no doubt been a memorable week for forward Jimmie Ericsson, who joined his younger brother and Wings defenseman Jonathan Ericsson on Team Sweden, marking the first time the two have played together in their professional careers. After Swed......

Yahoo! Sports - 16-Feb-2014

'What he's going through right now, it hurts just to watch him,'' Olympic and Detroit Red Wings teammate Niklas Kronwall said after a 1-0 win Friday over Switzerland. ''He goes through more than most people just to be able to play.'' Zetterberg played through pain and scored a goal in the Swedes' opening victory over the Czech Republic on Wednesday, but sat out of Thursday's practice because of his...

Detroit Red Wings - 15-Feb-2014

With three goals in the second period of Canada’s 6-0 victory over Austria Friday, Los Angeles forward Jeff Carter became the first player since 1988 to record a natural hat trick in one period of an Olympic game. Carter, Canada’s No. 13 forwar......

Detroit Red Wings - 15-Feb-2014

SOCHI -- Russia captain Pavel Datsyuk knows the up-and-down North American game as well as anybody here, having played it for nearly 13 years with the Detroit Red Wings. He also knows how different that style is from the skilled game the Russians ......

Detroit Red Wings - 15-Feb-2014

The injury woes that have plagued the Red Wings this season have followed them to Sochi, as it was announced Friday morning that Detroit and Team Sweden captain Henrik Zetterberg will miss the remainder of the Olympic ice hockey tournament due to ......


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