Congratulations to former Red Wing defenseman-turned-special management assistant Chris Chelios on being inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame. He will be joined by Keith Tkachuk, Gary Suter, Ed Snider, and Doc Emrick to make up the Class of 2011. In addition to playing 1,919 combined regular season and post-season NHL games, Chelios […]

It’s July. There are lulls in the action. Even though it’s been a fairly eventful summer, as Red Wings’ summers go, we all fall off the map from time to time. With my two partners in crime back in action, I thought today might be an appropriate time to play a little bit of catch […]

Thanks to our good friends at Detroit 4 Lyfe, the Red Wings Blogger Roundtable is back for another go-around of question-and-answer-and-penis-joke. If you missed last week’s first round of questions, head to D4L and learn all about Ian White, the roster battle, and the new assistant coaches. This week, we’re hosting the fellas and had […]

When I was six years old, and had just begun playing organized hockey, it was 1988 and Steve Yzerman was the greatest thing to happen to Detroit in half a century. As a result, my coaches in Fraser, MI decided that they wouldn’t allow requests for jersey numbers because they’d probably have 23 six-year-olds asking […]

It’s not often that change is viewed as a positive, especially when that change comes to an organization as successful as the Detroit Red Wings. Sure, the Wings have seen all kinds of change over the last 20 years, from players to coaches to general managers. In professional sports, change is a constant and no […]

In just about an hour, Brian Rafalski will walk up to a podium in the Olympia Club, sit down next to Ken Holland and cease to do the thing he has done since he was a young boy growing up in Dearborn, Michigan. Sure, he’ll probably strap on the skates again at some point, whether […]

I’d like to start with a disclaimer. The direct inspiration for the following diatribe is not Red Wings-related, although there is enough to bitch about when it comes to the officiating in the Red Wings/Sharks series (for a second year in a row). No, the instance that sent my poor brain over the edge occurred […]

When I was a kid – about 12 years old – growing up in Plymouth, Michigan, I lived in a pretty large subdivision. It wasn’t anything super flashy and there weren’t three story houses on every block, but it did well enough for us. The subdivision itself was huge; about a mile North to South […]

I won’t pin Wednesday night’s disaster of a night (solely) on the defensive prowess of Jonathan Ericsson. In that respect, you’ll have to excuse the timing of a post like this. Truth be told, I had it in the hopper as soon as I read the Khan article that is about to be referenced. Anyone […]

The “image” of a person is a tricky thing to comprehend. For some, the world is a place where status and comparison to peers is the major driving force in decisions, actions and even general behavior towards others. Those folks are the ones who cherish their own image more than their own life to some […]