Justin Abdelkader.
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DETROIT — The Red Wings have agreed to a two-year contract with forward Justin Abdelkader.
Detroit general manager Ken Holland announced the deal Monday. Terms were not disclosed.
Abdelkader played in 50 games for the Red Wings last season. He had three goals, three assists and was third on the team with 152 hits.
He had two goals and had an assist in 10 games during the Continue reading ‘Red Wings sign Abdelkader to two-year deal’
Mike Modano.
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DETROIT — Mike Modano wanted to prove there is still a spot for him in the NHL.
The Detroit Red Wings are giving him a chance, agreeing to terms with the star forward on a one-year contract.
“I was leaning toward retirement after the last two years took a lot out of me,” Modano said Thursday night from Dallas in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “But the Red Wings convinced Continue reading ‘Modano makes his move, officially joins Wings’
Mike Modano.
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DETROIT — Detroit Red Wings owner Mike Ilitch remembers Mike Modano leading Ilitch’s Little Caesars Midget AAA hockey team to the organization’s first championship in 1985.
Now Ilitch hopes Modano can help the Red Wings win another Stanley Cup.
“I don’t want to talk too much, but Cuppy, Cuppy, Cuppy,” a smiling Ilitch said at a news conference Friday announcing the Livonia native’s signing. Continue reading ‘Ilitch hopes Modano can help Wings win’
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Columbus Blue Jackets have been granted permission to speak with Detroit Red Wings assistant Paul MacLean about their vacant head coaching position.
Red Wings general manager Ken Holland confirmed Monday that he had been asked by his Columbus counterpart, Scott Howson, and that he believed the interview would take place on Tuesday.
The Blue Jackets are in the process of hiring a replacement Continue reading ‘Jackets allowed to interview Wings assistant’
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DETROIT — Johan Franzen has set a Detroit Red Wings playoff record with six points, and tied another team mark with four goals against the San Jose Sharks.
Franzen scored three times in a 3:26 span of the first period and had a fourth goal in the third to go along with two assists.
Steve Yzerman and Norm Ullman shared the previous record with five points. Franzen matched Carl Liscombe’s mark of four goals, Continue reading ‘Franzen breaks Red Wings playoff record’
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — When the San Jose Sharks hired former Detroit assistant Todd McLellan as their head coach two years ago, they were looking to duplicate some of the post-season success the Red Wings had enjoyed.
Now they get to find out if the imitation is as good as the original when the two teams meet in a Western Conference second-round series beginning Thursday night in San Jose.
McLellan brought over Continue reading ‘Sharks carry copycat act into series with Wings’
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DETROIT — For two decades, the Detroit Red Wings went into the last month of the regular season jockeying for one of the top spots in the playoffs.
The Red Wings have been in 18 straight postseasons — the longest streak in sports — and 17 in a row as a team seeded high enough to have home-ice advantage for at least a round.
Now, they’re simply vying to get in.
Detroit would have been the Continue reading ‘Lidstrom confident Wings will make playoffs’
The Ottawa Senators’ outstanding run has moved them atop the Northeast Division. The Detroit Red Wings’ chances of claiming a ninth straight Central Division title are fading fast.
Coming off a win over the Eastern Conference’s best team, the Senators look to continue their superb play by beating the reigning Western champions Saturday night when they visit the sputtering Red Wings.
Ottawa (35-22-4) put together a franchise-record Continue reading ‘Sens, Wings going in opposite directions’
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LOS ANGELES — Henrik Zetterberg and Dan Cleary, key components of Detroit’s sputtering power play, were back in the Red Wings’ lineup Thursday night against the Los Angeles Kings after recovering from shoulder injuries.
But left-wing Tomas Holmstrom was sidelined after sustaining a nondisplaced fracture in his foot Wednesday during practice at Anaheim.
Holmstrom, a 13-year veteran who has halped Continue reading ‘Red Wings lose Holmstrom to broken foot’
Injuries, key offseason departures and a change to the system played major roles in the Detroit Red Wings’ surprisingly slow start. Utter domination of a Central Division rival may have been just what they needed to prove they’re still capable of being a force in the Western Conference.
The Red Wings look to build on one of their best performances of the season Thursday night when they host the Vancouver Canucks, who are expected to Continue reading ‘Luongo likely in net vs. Wings Thursday’
