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Video: Red Wings’ Valtteri Filppula nets sick diving backhand goal
Tweet The Detroit Red Wings were heavy underdogs coming into Chicago for game two in their second round series with the Blackhawks. The Blackhawks were arguably the best team in the NHL for the regular season and had been rolling thus far in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. However, the Red Wings are no strangers to [...]
VIDEO: Filppula’s highlight reel goal helps notch series with Blackhawks at one-game a piece
Jimmy Howard made 19 saves as the Detroit Red Wings beat the Chicago Blackhawks 4-1 Saturday afternoon tying their best-of-seven series at one-game a piece.
Red Wings defenseman Brendan Smith got some redemption after a tough first game scoring the game winner but the highlight goal came in the third period from Valtteri Filppula. The play itself started after the Wings were able...
Valtteri Filppula scores fantastic goal to seal game against Blackhawks
Detroit Red Wings forward Valtteri Filppula has had an up-and-down season this year, but this phenomenal goal showed off just how good he can be. Henrik Zetterberg dropped the puck off to him at the blue line and rather than Filppula overpass as he has done so often, he pulled the puck to his backhand and drove to the net. As he was going down he fired a backhand shot between...
Valtteri Filppula’s Goal the Game-Winner as Detroit Red Wings Eliminate Anaheim Ducks: Video
Valtteri Filppula had a somewhat quiet playoff series against the Anaheim Ducks. But when the Detroit Red Wings needed him the most, Filppula delivered.
The Wings’ forward assisted on Henrik Zetterberg’s early goal in Game 7, then tallied what would be the game-winning goal in the second period, backhanding one past Jonas Hiller. Filppula took a pretty pass from Danny Cleary...
Red Wings 3, Ducks 2
Henrik Zetterberg and Valtteri Filppula each had a goal and an assist, and the Detroit Red Wings finished off the Anaheim Ducks with a 3-2 victory in Game 7 on Sunday night.
Justin Abdelkader scored a short-handed goal and Jimmy Howard made 31 saves as the seventh-seeded Red Wings won three of the first-round series' final four games to oust the Ducks, who had the NHL's...
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Trying To Figure Out Filppula
from John Niyo of the Detroit News,
The Wings don't have many pending free agents on the roster, but they do have a few, and none more notable - or mystifying - than Valtteri Filppula, the 29-year-old Finnish center who has become a lightning rod for criticism this spring.
In this new-and-improved, salary cap-strapped NHL, where nearly every team insists its focus is...
Filppula scores as Wings inch in on eighth spot
DETROIT This last week could determine not just whether the Red Wings' playoff streak lives, but also Valtteri Filppula's future with the team.
Filppula, 29, is an unrestricted free agent after this season and could easily command 5 million a season on the open market after making 3.5 million each of the past two seasons.
Filppula can be an enigmatic player. He has all...
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On sniffles and the Red Wings’ conundrum that is Valtteri Filppula
I'm feeling absolutely miserable, and it seems to have little to nothing to do with the Wings' ugly 7-1 loss to Chicago, so I'm going to do something very rare: I'm going to direct you to Gregg Krupa's, "The sky is not falling, the Wings are just in flux" column, because I really do believe what Krupa suggests--that this team simply has suffered too...
It’s time for the Wings to trade Valtteri Filppula
Detroit is at a crossroads.
Here in 2013 the Detroit Red Wings need to decide where they see themselves moving forward and should Valtteri Filppula part of it?
I say no for a few reasons.
Detroit is in transition and even being under the cap Detroit has many questions to answer going forward. Who to keep, who to let go and perhaps who to trade?
First off, Detroit has a cap hit of ...
Matheson weighs in on Red Wings’ chances of re-signing Filppula, Cleary
Via both Paul and my pal NHL Gossip, the Edmonton Journal's Jim Matheson posted a less-than-surprising but still intriguing quip about Red Wings forward Valtteri Filppula's contract demands (according to MLive's Ansar Khan, Filppula's sore shoulder's keeping him from practicing this morning)...
- The Detroit Red Wings are in a pickle with Val Filppula, who...
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