The Carolina Hurricanes are down 1-0 in the Stanley Cup Final to the Vegas Golden Knights. Carolina is in the Final for the first time since 2006, in part due to its strong defense.
Some of the best players to lace up the skates are being honored for their contributions this century. On Thursday, the NHL announced the first six players for the NHL Quarter-Century Team, featuring players who debuted in the league before 2000.
In the near future, Marc-Andre Fleury will say goodbye. The Quebec-born ‘Flower’ is the last remaining goaltending link to the pre-lockout NHL. Fleury debuted before the salary cap.
It’s hard to imagine anyone holding a grudge against Detroit Red Wings icon Nicklas Lidstrom. If you’ve ever had the pleasure to meet the man his teammates called the Perfect Human, you’d understand why.
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.
Detroit Red Wings seven-time Norris Trophy winner Nicklas Lidstrom was the greatest defenseman of his generation. If you are ready to debate that statement, you are what we like to call wrong.
Continuing to be the biggest surprise among recent Detroit Red Wings draft picks, Emmitt Finnie is ablaze for the WHL Kamloops Blazers. The 19-year-old center chosen 201st overall in the 2023 NHL entry draft is riding an 11-game point streak.
With a three-point effort on Monday night versus the Vancouver Canucks, Montreal Canadiens skater Lane Hutson now leads all NHL rookies in points, with three goals and 27 assists in 40 games.
This story originally appeared on hockeysverige.se and has been translated from Swedish to English. Anton Johansson debuted in the SHL for Leksand during the 2021-22 season.
Former NHL defenseman Lubomir Visnovsky was offering a holiday message to Detroit Red Wings legend Nicklas Lidstrom and it wasn’t Merry Christmas. Visnovsky is of the opinion that Lidstrom stole his Norris Trophy.
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.
Over the years, a litany of Toronto Maple Leafs players have made the move west down Highway 401 to play for the Detroit Red Wings. Hall of Famers such as Frank Mahovlich, Borje Salming and Charlie Conacher doffed the maple leaf for the winged wheel.
When it comes to contracts given by the team to unrestricted free agents, the Detroit Red Wings fanbase isn’t shy about giving their opinion. And for the most part, they don’t tend to like many of the signings.
The Detroit Red Wings have won 11 Stanley Cups in their illustrious history. Throughout their history, they have had many teams finish atop the regular season standings and make deep playoff runs.
Nicklas Lidstrom isn’t merely a Detroit Red Wings legend, he’s a Swedish hockey icon. So even though he was there on a working assignment in his role as
As part of his duties as vice president of hockey operations for the Detroit Red Wings, Nicklas Lidstrom is often assigned with the task of checking in on hockey’s future.
Technically, Alexander Lundqvist isn’t part of the Detroit Red Wings organization. At the same time, it would be patently wrong not to consider him as a member of the Red Wings’ extended family.
Evaluating defensemen can be a tricky subject because defense in hockey has always been a difficult thing to quantify. Is it just about keeping the puck out of your own net?