The give-and-go flows as easily off the ice as it does when they play together. Much as a goal from any one of them is celebrated, there's a good-natured camaraderie keeping everyone's ego in check.
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February 07, 2012
After a long west coast road trip that spanned seven days and four games, the Detroit Red Wings will finally fly home tonight. Their next game, to be played on Wednesday, will give the Red Wings an opportunity to extend their franchise-record 17 game home winning streak.
However, the Wings will have to do it without their star goaltender Jimmy Howard. The long road trip cost...
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February 07, 2012
In the wake of the Red Wings’ 3-1 loss to the Phoenix Coyotes and 5-4 loss to tomorrow’s opponent, the Ryan Nugent-Hopkins-less Oilers, a pair of pundits are weighing in as to what the Red Wings might want to do given Jimmy Howard’s status as on the shelf until he can handle the pain of taking shots while playing with a broken index finger grasping his goal stick...
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February 06, 2012
The Detroit Red Wings tend to suffer a few injuries during February and subsequently go into an early-month slump (usually at the same time that the Nashville Predators, who the Wings play on Friday, make their customary division title push), but man, in their -3-1 loss to Phoenix…
Did the Wings’ special teams ever stink, and did the Wings ever engage in a game where...
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February 06, 2012
DET (35-16-2) have earned 5 of 6 points in Western Canada, and wrap up their 4 game road trip tonight against the franchise that Gary owns. DET are 9-1-1 in their last 11, and will try to avoid consecutive defeats for the first time since Dec. 21-22. For as good as the Wings have been, their special teams are a disaster. The Wings are a paltry 6-for-65 (9.2 percent) on the power...
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February 08, 2012
Updated 3x at 12:50 PM: As the Detroit Red Wings prepare to tangle with the Edmonton Oilers tonight (7 PM EST, FSD Plus, not FSD/TSN/71.1 FM)), MLive’s Ansar Khan reports that Joey MacDonald will get the nod in goal…
Everyone is skating at Wings practice: 93-13-44, 51-40-26, 20-43-11, 48-8-96 (39); 5-18, 55-23, 52-4/22; 31-29 (35)
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MacDonald is starting for Wings...
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February 05, 2012
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Midway through the 1st period in last nights Edmonton oilers / Detroit Redwings game Niklas Kronwall put Ales Hemsky into his sights and took Hemsky out with a devastating hit. Questions have arose in Edmonton whether this hit was clean or suspension worthy. It is worthy to note that no penalty was called on the play.
I will break this down the best that i can. Hemsky...
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February 06, 2012
With Jimmy Howard out with a fractured finger, who will be in goal tonight when the Red Wings face host Phoenix at 8 (NBCSN)? Check out if it will by Ty Conklin or Joey MacDonald, who was brought up from the Grand Rapid Griffins. On Sunday, coach Mike Babcock would not disclose who the starter would be.
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February 06, 2012
A touch of the flu means Brad Stuart is probable for tonight's game against the Coyotes (8 p.m., NBCSN), general manager Ken Holland said.
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February 07, 2012
Via RedWingsFeed, TSN’s Bob McKenzie reports that the Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs and the NHL will announce that the Wings are hosting the 2013 Winter Classic in short order:
Just a reminder, 2013 NHL Winter Classic (TOR vs. DET at U of Michigan Big House) will be made official at Thursday news conference(s).
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February 05, 2012
from Open Ice Hitter at the StarPhoenix, - Interesting how the sports news crews and broadcasters refer vaguely to Patrick Sharp’s wrist injury …. Avoiding the mention of Jiri Hudler’s name, or the fact the Detroit Red Wing worm smashed Sharp’s wrist with a vicious slash …. Where is this going ? Yup. TO Brendan Shanahan … ex Detroit Red...
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February 08, 2012
The Red Wings arrived home Tuesday from Phoenix, ready to make a few doctor's appointments.
Original Story:
http://www.freep.com/article/20120207...
