Detroit Red Wings

The Red Wings completed a weekend home and home sweep of Boston Bruins yesterday at Joe Louis Arena.  In the weekly Sunday national game, Detroit completed the sweep by beating the Bruins 4 – 2.  Yesterdays win coming on the heels of the 6 to 1 shellacking by the Red Wings over the Bruins on Friday night in Boston...

All season long, the Detroit Red Wings have had a bad habit of getting off to slow starts.  It cost them again last night.  The Red Wings fell behind and couldn’t catch up in a lackluster 4 - 1 loss to the Nashville Predators at Joe Louis Arena, the same team that shut them out Saturday night...

Pavel Datsyuk looked like he hadn’t missed 19 games last night when he created chances on offense and took them away on defense.  Datsyuk had a goal, an assist and a game-high three takeaways after missing 19 games with a broken right wrist to help Detroit beat the New York Rangers 3 - 2 Monday night...

Johan Franzen was a one-man offense Wednesday night, scoring five goals to lead the Detroit Red Wings to a 7 - 5 victory over the slumping Ottawa Senators.  Franzen is the first NHL player to score five goals in a game since Minnesota's Marian Gaborik did it on Dec...

The Detroit Red Wings head to the All-Star break on a winning note.  The Wings beat the New Jersey Devils 3 – 1 last night at the Joe.  The Red Wing goal scorers included Darren Helm, Johan Franzen and Valtteri Filppula with the game winner...

Penguin Chris Conner scored on Pittsburgh's first successful penalty shot since 2007, Jordan Staal added his third goal in three games and the Sidney Crosby-less Penguins beat the injury-thinned Detroit Red Wings, 4 - 1, on Tuesday night...

The Red Wings lost a game Friday night.  They also lost a couple more players to injuries.  The loss was a 3 - 2 shootout to Columbus. As for the injuries, goaltender Jimmy Howard bruised his right knee in the first period and gave way to Joey MacDonald...

The Detroit Red Wings didn’t start the New Year in the way they wanted.  P.A. Parenteau scored on a power play at 3:57 of overtime to give the New York Islanders a 4-3 victory over the Western Conference-leading Red Wings on Friday night...

Playing three road games in four nights after the holiday break, the Detroit Red Wings completed a three-game sweep Wednesday with a 7 - 3 victory over the Dallas Stars. Patrick Eaves got his first career hat trick, scoring his third goal on an empty net with 2:14 left in the game...

Detroit Red Wings captain is having one of the best seasons of his stellar career, but he's still just fourth among NHL defensemen in an All-Star Game voting update released today.  Pittsburgh's Kris Letang, Chicago's Duncan Keith (Michigan State) and Philadelphia's Chris Pronger have more fan votes than Lidstrom's 260,171 thus far...

Detroit Red Wing goalie Chris Osgood became the 10th goaltender in NHL history to reach 400 career victories after withstanding the best efforts of the Colorado Avalanche to delay the milestone, making 46 saves Monday to deliver a 4 - 3 overtime victory for the Red Wings...

The Detroit Red Wings are down another key offensive threat, after the team lost leading goal-scorer Danny Cleary Sunday with a fractured left ankle.  Cleary will be out at least four weeks after getting hit with a shot by teammate Brad Stuart during the third period of Detroit’s 4-1 victory over the Minnesota Wild at Xcel Energy Center...