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Get To Know Your Red Wings: Niklas Kronwall
The retirement of Nicklas Lidstrom has led to numerous questions about the ability of the Detroit Red Wings‘ blueliners heading into next season. Fortunately for the Hockeytown faithful, Niklas Kronwall is the answer to many of those questions. Kronwall is one of the few first round picks on the Detroit roster, and has absolutely played [...]
TweetNHL Rumors: Red Wings offer Carlo Colaiacovo long-term Deal
It appears the Detroit Red Wings have decided on their next target to strengthen their blue line. Help could possibly come in the form of the St. Louis Blues Carlo Colaiacovo. Sources around the internet are buzzing that the Wings have offered the 29-year old blueliner a “long-term deal.” Unfortunately the length of term and [...]
TweetNiklas Kronwall Must Become more than a Big Hitter
This season the Detroit Red Wings, as they have done for two decades, are going to depend on a “Nick” to eat up solid defensive minutes, contribute offensively, and provide a calming leadership effect on his teammates. The big difference this season lies in the last name of that “Nick.” Niklas Kronwall, and not Nick [...]
TweetGet To Know Your Red Wings: Jimmy Howard
There are absolute positives and negatives about being the starting goaltender for the Detroit Red Wings. Red Wings’ goalies generally are given all the resources in the world to success, but with those resources comes incredibly lofty expectations. Goaltenders in Hockeytown are judged on Stanley Cups, and little else. Jimmy Howard seems to be finding [...]
TweetDetroit Red Wings Fans just Want to Watch Hockey
The rumors are getting louder. Time is getting shorter. The men in suits keep talking. Yet all the Detroit Red Wings fans seem to want is one thing: to watch hockey this fall. There is still no new collective bargaining agreement in place and less than 30 days before time runs out. This could cause [...]
TweetNHL Rumors: Red Wings Canceled Tournament a Sign of Things to Come?
After the Detroit Red Wings canceled their annual prospect tournament, it has produced many more questions about the future of the 2012-2013 NHL season. The prospect tournament, which has been held since 1998, has done a great job in the past of showcasing future NHL talent as well as providing an exciting venue for hockey [...]
TweetGet To Know Your Red Wings: Pavel Datsyuk
There has long been a question in the NHL as to who was the best player in the game. Was it Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins, or Alexander Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals? The correct answer, of course, is Pavel Datsyuk of the Detroit Red Wings. Datsyuk has proven over the last five years [...]
TweetNHL Rumors: Is Darren Helm on the Detroit Red Wings Power Play?
There is little denying the important role that Darren Helm plays on the Detroit Red Wings penalty killing unit. He wins face-offs, he puts constant high pressure on the point men, and with his speed he is always a risk to steal a puck and break-a-way for a possible shorthanded goal. However, it has been [...]
TweetIan White Looks to Continue Success as a Red Wing
When the Detroit Red Wings signed then-free agent Ian White to a two-year, $5.75 million contract last year, there were certainly some high expectations. Red Wings’ fans had seen White play as a member of the San Jose Sharks the previous playoffs, and they knew how effective he had been against their own team. Still, [...]
TweetGet To Know Your Red Wings: Henrik Zetterberg
As the crowning of Henrik Zetterberg as Detroit Red Wings‘ captain seems imminent, there is hardly a better time to learn a bit more about the Swede. Zetterberg’s journey to the NHL began on October 9th, 1980 when he was born in Njurunda, Sweden to Goran and Ulla Zetterberg. With his father as a hockey [...]
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