KEN HOLLAND RUMORS & GOSSIP

Recipe for Game 6 success includes leadership

Detroit Red Wings GM Ken Holland has a playoff recipe for success that contains four ingredients. Ingredient 1: Your best players have to be your best players. In Game 6 vs. the Anaheim Ducks, Detroits top line of Pavel Datsyuk, Henrik Zetterberg and Justin Abdelkader scored all four goals and had seven points between them. Ingredient 2: Your goalie must be great. Red Wings...
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6 days ago  |  Discuss

Red Wings GM Ken Holland talks to WDFN’s Sean Baligian about playoff chances, trade deadline

Red Wings GM Ken Holland appeared on WDFN's Matt Sheppard show this morning, and Holland spoke at length to Sean Baligian about his team's playoff chances, their trade deadline philosophy about about essentially rebuilding on the fly. WDFN's Twitter account posted some highlights from the interview: Continue reading "Red Wings GM Ken Holland talks to WDFN’s...
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April 10, 2013  |  Discuss

After Detroit Red Wings Let Another Deadline Pass, Pressure is on Ken Holland to Perform Soon

After another trade deadline passed without a move getting done, Ken Holland needs to do more this offseason to shake up his roster and surround his stars like Henrik Zetterberg with more talent. (Tom Gromak, Flickr) “We like our team. There’s not a deal out there which can make us better. We’ll get a lot of guys back from injury, which should help us moving forward.” ...
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April 04, 2013  |  Discuss

Red Wings GM Ken Holland tells Khan, Pleiness that trades are unlikely, offers injury updates

As you might expect, Red Wings GM Ken Holland gave MLive's Ansar Khan and the Macomb Daily's Chuck Pleiness a late-Tuesday-night interview, and as of the present moment, Holland told Khan that it's highly unlikely that the Wings will make a move at this point, though he and the Wings' management staff will remain bunkered down at the Joe for the next day... “With...
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April 02, 2013  |  Discuss

Red Wings GM Ken Holland tells NHL.com’s Hedger that he’ll move cautiously at the trade deadline

NHL.com's Brian Hedger told the Twitter world that he engaged in an expansive interview with Red Wings GM Ken Holland last night, and it involves Holland's take on possibly making trades given that the team's enduring what truly is a "rebuilding year." Sometimes you have to start at the end, so here's the end, and I highly suggest that you go back and read...
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March 29, 2013  |  Discuss

Ken Holland discusses the Red Wings’ plans in a Wings-centric Hockey World

The Edmonton Journal's Jim Matheson dedicated the bulk of his "Hockey World" column and blog entries to the Red Wings this week, engaging in a fascinating interview with Wings GM Ken Holland about the possibility that Detroit might not make the playoffs for the 22nd straight season, and they talk about the Wings' unrestricted free agents-to-be, too. Matheson believes...
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March 18, 2013  |  Discuss
DARN TECHNOLOGY

NHL GMs can't figure out how to work remote

Edmonton Oilers GM Steve Tambellini had some trouble using the remote control for the television in his executive suite at Joe Louis Arena during Saturday night's game against the Detroit Red Wings. Tambellini had so much trouble that he asked Red Wings GM Ken Holland for help, but Holland couldn't seem to get the television on the right channel either. That begs the...
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February 11, 2013  |  Discuss

How Could We Have Ever Doubted Him? Ken Holland Is Looking Like A Genius

  Our faith was weak.  We doubted him all summer long.  We said, what the hell Kenny?  What happened to that plan?  When did it change from being an active player in the market to sitting on your ass?  We were pissed.  We should have known better, but we are, alas, just mere fans. Turns out, it’s looking like Holland was smarter than us and almost every...
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August 29, 2012  |  Discuss

Mark Spizzirri: Time for Plan B to be put into action by Ken Holland & the Red Wings

Where do Holland & Co. go from here? It’s not often the Detroit Red Wings get left at the altar, but that is what happened today when defenseman Ryan Suter decided to join fellow American Zach Parise and take their talents to Minneapolis-St. Paul to play for the Minnesota Wild. In the end, criticism of the Red Wing management group should be minimal. Although they...
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July 04, 2012  |  Discuss
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