There’s an easy way to tell the Steve Yzerman story. He comes back home to Detroit, gets the GM job, spends years trying to rebuild, and it just doesn’t work.
The Detroit Red Wings spent their 2026 first-round pick on one of USA Hockey’s shining stars among 2008-born forwards. J.P. Hurlbert has demanded attention with his scoring since the 2022-23 season, when he put up 112 goals and 195 points in 75 games with the Dallas Stars Elite 14U AAA club.
If you had said back in 2008 when the Red Wings won their last Stanley Cup they would start a ten-year playoff drought eight years later, I don't think many people would have believed you.
Five points. That's all that came between Alex DeBrincat and accomplishing something no Red Wings player has done in nearly two decades. DeBrincat had 41 goals and 85 points last season.
The Detroit Red Wings have revealed their themed games and promotional schedule for the 2026-27 NHL season. There will be three bobbleheads given away — Sergei Fedorov will have his bobblehead night on Oct.
The NHL has had an interesting new millennium. It was a league sans a salary cap when the 2000s started… and then the owners locked the players out for an entire season.
Scoring 113 points in your first 189 NHL games is usually a good sign you’re on the right track to becoming a star. Especially when you posted a season with 24 goals and 33 assists in just 68 games at age 22.
The Detroit Red Wings have major business to address in the coming months, starting with their search for the next general manager and how to handle captain Dylan Larkin.
The Detroit Red Wings’ situation with captain Dylan Larkin remains unresolved, but time is quickly running out for the organization to find a solution.
Dylan Larkin requested a trade from the Detroit Red Wings more than two months ago, but his full no-movement clause and Detroit's unwillingness to accept futures have left the sides at a standstill.
Right now, the future of the Detroit Red Wings is firmly up in the air, as fans are not only waiting on the appointment of a new GM and President of Hockey Operations, but also hoping to resolve the drama involving captain Dylan Larkin.
The Detroit Red Wings are currently stuck in NHL limbo, with a roster that's clearly not good enough to compete for the Stanley Cup Playoffs given their decade-long drought, but one that's also not bad enough for them to acquire multiple top-five draft picks.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
Earlier today, the United States Hockey League’s (USHL) Youngstown Phantoms announced the hiring of Nathan Paetsch as their new head coach, making him the seventh man in Phantoms history to hold the title.
The Detroit Red Wings are still working through the Dylan Larkin trade saga ahead of the 2026-27 season. Detroit is also on the lookout for a new general manager to lead them through the rest of the decade.
The Edmonton Oilers will likely continue to be linked to scoring wingers as they search for another legitimate top-six option, and one name that makes plenty of sense on paper is Detroit Red Wings forward Alex DeBrincat.
So, I took a bit of a hiatus. There’s been a Larkin trade request, a Cossa trade, a first-round draft pick, and a change in general managers amidst a slew of rumors, and I didn’t cover any of it.
When the Detroit Red Wings eventually/probably/maybe trade Dylan Larkin, much of the attention will understandably focus on the return package, whether that’s NHL-ready players, prospects, and/or draft picks. Flying under the radar a bit is the downstream impact on the rest of the Red Wings.
Remember when the Detroit Red Wings had one of the longest playoff streaks in NHL history? It feels like just yesterday the Red Wings were the model of consistency, making the playoffs every year and, at their best, competing for the Stanley Cup.
With Steve Yzerman’s time as GM coming to an end in Detroit, Red Wings fans have a right to be angry with the results, or lack thereof, during his tenure.
The Detroit Red Wings’ offseason has already delivered one seismic departure, with Steve Yzerman no longer the general manager. The team is also likely to trade captain Dylan Larkin, who requested a trade, in part because of his relationship with Yzerman and the forward’s impatience over the team’s lack of success.
Chicago selected Kane with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2007 NHL Draft, and he more than lived up to the hype, becoming one of the best players in franchise history.
Following Connor Bedard's five-year contract extension, the young NHL star has made it public that he wants Patrick Kane to sign with the Chicago Blackhawks.
Former center/forward Steve Yzerman won three Stanley Cups in 22 seasons with the Detroit Red Wings (1983-2006), but he wasn't cut out to salvage hockey in Motown.