New details are surfacing on why a Dylan Larkin trade never materialized in Detroit (or at least hasn’t yet), with a report from 32 Thoughts suggesting front-office disagreements played a role behind the scenes.
With NHL training camps set to open next week the Detroit Red Wings are looking like one of the league's biggest messes.
No general manager. Your captain wanting out. One of your team’s top defensemen unsigned. Pretty much nothing is on solid ground for the Detroit Red Wings right now.
How many of the players to grace the cover of each EA NHL video game going back to 'NHL 2000?"
The Detroit Red Wings appear to be moving forward in their search for a new General Manager. According to Puckpedia, the Wings have told a few candidates they were interviewing that they are no longer in the running for the position.
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.
One of the biggest talking points this offseason has been whether the Detroit Red Wings will move on from the Dylan Larkin era.
From Max Bultman of The Athletic (mailbag): Safe to say, the Detroit Red Wings’ offseason has not gone as planned. With Steve Yzerman now in a different position, the search remains on for a new General Manager.
There’s an easy way to tell the Steve Yzerman story. He comes back home to Detroit, gets the GM job, spends years trying to rebuild, and it just doesn’t work.
The Detroit Red Wings are hiring a search firm to help find Steve Yzerman’s successor. Chris Ilitch is hiring an outside search firm to find the next general manager, with Shawn Horcoff named the interim GM and running the day-to-day business.
With former general manager Steve Yzerman no longer at the helm, the Detroit Red Wings have begun searching for their next GM. Yzerman’s legacy in Detroit as a player is legendary, but his tenure in office is murky.
In the wake of Steve Yzerman stepping down as Detroit Red Wings general manager (GM) after seven seasons, there were a handful of people who came to his defense despite never once making the playoffs.
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.
With the announcement of Steve Yzerman stepping down as General Manager of the Detroit Red Wings last week, the “Yzerplan” Era of Red Wings hockey has come to a close.
With the announcement of Steve Yzerman stepping down as General Manager of the Detroit Red Wings last week, the “Yzerplan” Era of Red Wings hockey has come to a close.
When Steve Yzerman stepped down as general manager of the Detroit Red Wings last week, it brought an end to a seven-year tenure during which one of the franchise’s greatest icons was tasked with leading his former team through a lengthy rebuild.
Patrick Kane is going home. Dylan Larkin would still prefer to leave his.
Former center/forward Steve Yzerman won three Stanley Cups in 22 seasons with the Detroit Red Wings (1983-2006), but he wasn't cut out to salvage hockey in Motown.
The Detroit Red Wings announced Wednesday that Steve Yzerman is stepping away from his role as Executive Vice President and General Manager, transitioning instead into a senior advisor position under Governor and CEO Chris Ilitch.
After seven years in the position, Steve Yzerman is set to transition out of the Detroit Red Wings’ general manager role. He will move into a senior advisor role under Governor and CEO Chris Illitch while the Red Wings seek a new name to fill Yzerman’s previous Executive Vice President and GM roles.
The 2026 NHL Draft wrapped up on Saturday, and while there were plenty of big trades in the week leading up to it, some of the biggest stories involve the players that did not get moved.
Already reeling from their team's latest end-of-season collapse, news about Dylan Larkin's trade request intensified Detroit Red Wings fans' despair even more
Dylan Larkin, U.S. Olympian and Detroit Red Wings star center, has requested a trade.
When Steve Yzerman rejoined the Red Wings in 2019 and began a rebuild in the Motor City, many wondered how long it would take the NHL Hall-of-Famer to build a powerhouse like the one he’d built for the Lightning.
Yzerman has yet to build a postseason team since making his then-triumphant return in April 2019.
One of the top teams in the Atlantic Division has yet to make any big moves leading up to the NHL Trade Deadline, but it’s not for a lack of trying.
It's been a while since Red Wings fans have truly had something to celebrate. No matter what happens with the current team this season, that will change come Jan. 12, 2026.
He is now staking his reputation squarely on the shoulders of the team’s young core.
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