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The Scuttles Saga has gone quietly into the night. FIIIIIIIINALLY. Per the IIHF – who started this latest chapter of asshattery: The IIHF has approved the International Transfer Card (ITC) for player Jiri Hudler, thus allowing his transfer from the Detroit Red Wings (NHL) to Dynamo Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League (Russia). Now, please, […]
Pardon my absence, but here’s what’s been discussed around the table this week: First, On the Wings tackles the absolute farce that is Nick Lidstrom’s dropping off. I had many thoughts, but this sentence sums up my stance rather justly: Let’s be clear – if his “off year” is to be a Norris finalist, score […]
The Red Wings dropped their second game of the prospects tournament on Monday evening, losing 5-3 to the Carolina Hurricanes. But, like a night earlier, the story seemed to be Tomas Tatar – who scored his third goal of the tournament and added an assist. The Sporting News’ Craig Custance had this to say on […]
Our turn! We’ve already tackled some important issues at the Red Wings Roundtable: The Olympics, off-season acquisitions, running out of gas, breakout candidates, and goaltending. Now we take a look at the potential parallels between the last two times the Wings made it to the Final — and lost: 1995 and this past season. A […]
Nothing goes with red and white like canary yellow! Sunday evening, Red Wings prospect camp opened in Traverse City – as the Wings young’ns defeated the Thrasher prospects by a score of 6-4. 2009 second round pick Tomas Tatar scored a pair of goals including the game’s first eight minutes into the contest. Griffins defenseman […]
I only picked this photo because I’d like to pose a question to the readers of TPL: what the hell is a seawolf? The Red Wings no longer hold the rights to their ninth round pick in 2004, Nils Backstrom. The Wings held the rights to the Swedish-born defender until August, 2010, but evidently have […]
Damn that Nick Lidstrom and his center ice beach ball shots! Notable awful goaltender Dan Cloutier will be in Red Wings training camp on a tryout. This, according to Ansar Khan: Cloutier, 33, who contacted the club and asked for the tryout, hasn’t played since appearing in nine games with the Los Angeles Kings in […]
Jessica from Bingo Bango hosts today’s roundtable question, about breakout expectations. Again, Rob had the honors: The Villain. Ville Leino. It has to be him. There are only a handful of guys on this team who I would consider breakout candidates. Most of our Wings…at this point in their careers…are either known commodities (Norris, Hank, […]
Trying to shake the tummy ache of Hudler-induced diarrhea. Ken Holland must have been paying attention to the roundtable discussion, because he chimed in with his thoughts about fatigue setting in as the season wore on last season — and how he thinks they’ll hold up this season. Chris McCosky of the Detroit News has […]
Today, the hilarity that is The Triple Deke hosts the Red Wings Eleven. The topic of discussion is fatigue down the stretch given the extra season worth of games the Wings have played the last three post-seasons. Rob had the honors today. Here’s a preview: I spent last night in a Springfield, Illinois bar drinking […]