Detroit – The Detroit Red Wings signed veteran defenseman Mike Commodore to a 1-year contract today. Commodore is a welcome addition to the blue line, where he'll add a significant amount of size and grit. Commodore is also on Twitter. Check out his Twitter feed at @commie22. Red Wings sign defenseman Mike Commodore to 1-year [...]
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Five reasons the Red Wings can win game 7
There's a lot of chatter out there about tonight's Red Wings / San Jose Sharks game 7. While it's only the second round, this is certainly one of the most, if not THE MOST, exciting series the Wings have played since Colorado in 1997. There's a great combination of skill, chance, goalies standing on their heads [...]
Red Wings First Round Schedule Announced
Red Wings remove Pavel Datsyuk from injured reserve

DETROIT – After a 15 game absence with a broken right wrist, Detroit Red Wings center Pavel Datsyuk was removed from the team’s injured reserve list on Thursday. This is great news for the team, which seemed to begin to hobble its way into the All-Star break weekend, obviously undermanned with several key injuries (Datsyuk, [...]
Nabokov suspended by Islanders

DETROIT – As a Detroit sports blog, we like funny stuff. And this drama is getting a little funnier. In an almost laughable turn of events, the New York Islanders chose to suspend holdout goalie Evgeni Nabokov. The Islanders suspended Nabokov after he failed to report to the team, having been picked up off of [...]
Nabokov declines to report to Islanders
Wings grab Nabokov, lose him to Islanders
On Thursday evening, the Detroit Red Wings announced they had made a deal with former San Jose Sharks goalie Evgeni Nabokov, who’d been playing in Russia’s KHL this season. The deal was a one-year contract at the league minimum salary, a salary cap hit of $260,000 for the Wings this year. This would have been [...]
Wings go the distance with Predators, win 1-0 in shootout
The Detroit Red Wings won a close-fought, playoff-style hockey game in the 11th round of a shootout against the Nashville Predators last night. Niklas Kronwall – that’s right … defenseman Niklas Kronwall – scored the winning goal in the shootout against Predators goalie Pekka Rinne. Overall, the game was more than a solid effort from [...]
Red Wings dismantle hapless Minnesota Wild 6-2
Red Wings whip Vancouver Canucks in last second of overtime
We’ve seen this before. The Red Wings put in a better-than-solid performance with few missteps and lots of shots on goal. Still, they end up short. It’s hockey, right? Well, we thought we’d seen this before … but we hadn’t. In yesterday’s road game against the Vancouver Canucks, the Wings showed they are still a [...]
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