KEN HOLLAND RUMORS & GOSSIP

Holland, Babcock and the Red Wings’ players discuss ‘rebuilding on the fly’

Over the course of the both the Red Wings-Ducks and Red Wings-Blackhawks series, Ken Holland and Mike Babcock's roles on Detroit's "rebuilding on the fly" season (which, as the Oakland Press's Pat Caputo noted this afternoon, does not involve tanking to be bad enough for long enough to stockpile high draft picks like the Blackhawks did), and with the Grand Rapids...
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Red Wings’ Ken Holland, Henrik Zetterberg weigh in on the art of Kronwalling

TSN posted quite the feature on Red Wings defenseman Niklas Kronwall's status as a cult hero and then some in Detroit, and perhaps as a villain in other cities, and HockeyWebCaster uploaded it to YouTube: And yes, Kronwall insists that he's trying to keep things as clean as he can while leading the Wings' defense and trying to keep the physical edge to his game...
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3 days ago  |  Discuss

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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12 days ago  |  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

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
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