The excitement of three quality rookies joining the Detroit Red Wings gave way to the reality that this team, with or without the youngsters, has work to do to be consistently competitive. The 5-1 ...

In an 82-game NHL season, what happens in October isn’t more important than the results in December and February. But it often feels that way.  Bad starts have a way of battering a team’s confidence ...

DETROIT — Can you run out of patience after the Detroit Red Wings inopening game of the season? Coach Todd McLellan sounded like that when he discussed how and why his Detroit Red Wings fell 5-1 to ...

Todd McLellan has learned on his coaching journey that leadership is not always spelled out by the letters sewn onto players’ jerseys. “Kris Draper and Kirk Maltby, they didn’t wear A’s,” said ...

Red Wings coach Todd McLellan believes that leadership of a team should extend beyond two or three players. But he is also old school when it comes players wearing the “C” and the “A” He made it ...

This is the most pivotal year in Steve Yzerman’s tenure as general manager of the Detroit Red Wings. Writers have and will say that every year until either the Red Wings make the playoffs or Yzerman ...

The past four months have to be the best 120 days of the Jake Walman NHL career. In June, he played in the Stanley Cup Final.  On Monday, the Oilers gave him a new seven-year contract for $49 million.

The way this season is going, the “diving” law in the Swiss National League is going to be called the Filip Zadina Rule. Zadina, 25, was fined 4,000 Swiss Francs for the second time this season ...

It’s an important development that draft picks Emmitt Finnie, Axel Sandin Pellikka and Michael Brandsegg-Nygard are in a position to earn a Detroit Red Wings roster spot. But perhaps the bigger story ...

Patrick Kane’s immediate concern when the 2025-26 NHL season starts Thursday is helping the Detroit Red Wings’ end their nine-year playoff drought. But he also has a handful of personal milestones ...

The drive from Grand Rapids to Detroit is only 150-some miles, maybe two hours and 30 minutes, depending on traffic. But it seems much longer when you are an anxious Griffins player trying to travel ...