Special teams can make or break a season. For years, the Detroit Red Wings have found out the hard way what happens when they can’t capitalize on the man advantage or keep the puck out of their own net when shorthanded.
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It is no secret that the Detroit Red Wings have been too easy to play against in recent years. Never has that fact been more clear than when head coach Todd McLellan called his team out in his year-end press availability, noting the team’s lack of mental toughness.
The NHL began awarding the Conn Smythe Trophy to the most valuable player of the postseason beginning in the 1965 season. How many of the past winners can you name in six minutes?
A former NHLer might be in the running to be the Vancouver Canucks’ next head coach. On Thursday, CanucksArmy’s Irfaan Gaffar reported that the Canucks have spoken with Marco Sturm about the open position.
Getting to 500 NHL goals is not as rare as it used to be, but it certainly still is not commonplace. Heading into the 2025-26 season, 48 players have done it.
The Red Wings have missed the playoffs for the ninth consecutive season, prompting hockey pundits and fans to question the direction of the team and whether general manager Steve Yzerman is the right man to lead the club.
That’s a wrap – the 2024-25 season for the Detroit Red Wings has reached its end. The playoff drought continues. Now, the focus turns to the offseason.
For those keeping track at home, the Detroit Red Wings have won three of their last four games and captured seven of the eight available points. They were 30 seconds away from shutting out the red-hot St.
The Detroit Red Wings received split injury updates early on Thursday.
Michael Rasmussen (upper body injury) has been cleared to return the Detroit Red Wings’ lineup Thursday when they play the Utah Hockey Club The 6-foot-6 forward missed four games since being injured by a blow to the head by Trevor Zegras.
Detroit Red Wings coach Todd McLellan talks to his general manager every day, sometimes multiple times a day, but he’s not pounding on his desk demanding defensive help and a No.
For the first time in over a month, the Detroit Red Wings will be waking up Wednesday morning not as a playoff team. Following Tuesday’s 2-1 home-ice loss to the Carolina Hurricanes, Detroit was dropping out of the second wild card position in the NHL’s Eastern Conference.
Coach Todd McLellan was beaming with pride over the decision made by his Detroit Red Wings players on how they wanted to enter Ohio Stadium for Saturday’s Stadium Series game against the Columbus Blue Jackets.
COLUMBUS — Detroit Red Wings coach Todd McLellan said 10 years from now players will be talking about special night when when they played an outdoor NHL game in front of 94,751 people.
Detroit Red Wings coach Todd McLellan believes his team will reveal its true identity over the next eight weeks. The mask will come off. “Are we October to December or are we December to February?,” McLellan said Wednesday as the team prepares to resume the regular-season Saturday with a 12:30 game (ABC).
Among all the gifts that Detroit Red Wings fans were receiving on Christmas Day, the best one of all wasn’t found under the holiday tree. Todd McLellan is the gift that keeps on giving.
Thirty days into Todd McLellan’s tenure as the Detroit Red Wings head coach, the biggest change in the team can’t be measured by statistics. You can see it.
The Detroit Red Wings have been one of hockey’s hottest teams since firing Derek Lalonde and naming Todd McLellan his replacement behind the bench. In the nine games since Dec.
Detroit Red Wings coach Todd McLellan wasn’t happy that he had to give his players the day off today with a game scheduled for tomorrow against the San Jose Sharks.
The Todd McLellan era didn't exactly get off to the best start in Detroit. But things have turned around quickly, sparking confidence and hope.
As Todd McLellan takes over the Detroit Red Wings bench, I can’t help but think of his first stint with them as an assistant to Mike Babcock. The one thing I would always marvel about with that team: casual picks.
Does Todd McLellan have what it takes to make the Red Wings a playoff contender?
The Detroit Red Wings have officially hired Todd McLellan as their new head coach, making a change behind the bench one day after Christmas. But before Detroit could make the hiring official, it had to handle some contract business with the Los Angeles Kings.
The Columbus Blue Jackets looked like they were zeroing in on a new head coach, but that pursuit has hit a road block.
With the draft coming up later this week and free agency beginning soon after, the Blue Jackets will likely want to fill their head coaching vacancy before then.
In addition to previous connections with the Kraken and Maple Leafs, Todd McLellan has now interviewed with the Devils and Jets for their head coaching vacancies.
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