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The Red Wings put the final touches on training camp today, holding their annual Red/White scrimmage up in Traverse City. With a packed house and full radio/streaming video broadcast, the Wings battled amongst themselves to decide who gets bragging rights in the locker room and who gets to pick up the first road trip dinner bill. The […]
Training Camp comes to an end today, as the Detroit Red Wings prepare for the grind of pre-season, which begins tomorrow against the most heinous Pittsburgh Penguins. The traditional Red-White game will take place today at noon, and can be viewed via this stream. FIRST CUTS The Wings made their first round of training camp […]
Just spoke with Andreas Lilja’s agent, Todd Diamond, who notified me that Lilja will be taking a try-out with the San Jose Sharks. For those holding out hope that Lilja would appear at Wings training camp this week – despite not being on the bus this morning – well, that proverbial train has left the […]
Just a quick update on the Andreas Lilja “try-out” discussion that arose today following reports that Red Wings GM Ken Holland has left the door open for Lilja to attend Wings training camp in Traverse City. While Lilja never came out and said he was definitely going to attend camp and take the Wings up […]
With last night’s win over the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Red Wings ended their North American exhibition season. They play one more pre-season game against Farjestads on Wednesday, in Sweden, before opening the regular season with a pair of games against the Blues in Stockholm. Immediately following the Penguins game, the final cuts were made and […]
Just as I posted about the recent Red Wings cuts, more were announced. Kris Newbury – recent Toronto Maple Leafs signee has been placed on waivers with the intention of sending him to Grand Rapids.Jeremy Williams – ditto. Even the Maple Leafs part.Evan McGrath – placed on waivers with the intention of sending him to […]
Yesterday, the Red Wings made their second round of training camp cuts, assigning five players to Grand Rapids, and releases three others from their tryouts. Today, the club continued their sweep by assigning a sixth player to the Griffins, leaving the total number of players in training camp (including injured players and new tryout Brad […]
Friday night, the Red Wings will take on the Maple Leafs in the first half of a home-and-home. They’ll be icing mostly regulars, with a complement of call-ups. Or, as Red Wings fans call it, February. The expected lineup: Johan Franzen — Pavel Datsyuk — Tomas HolmstromTodd Bertuzzi — Valtteri Filppula — Dan ClearyKris Draper […]
Dan Cloutier is expected to split duties with Daniel Larsson tonight against the Rangers, leaving four players still on the roster who have yet to suit up in an exhibition game (Pearce, Axelsson, Piche, Kolosov). I’m beginning to wonder if these guys are injured because for what other reason would surefire Griffins Kolosov and Axelsson […]
Early favorite for a nickname: Tots It was a busy day for the Red Wings, first announcing that they had signed 2009 second round pick Tomas Tatar, followed by inking training camp tryout Willie Coetzee. Tatar had a wonderful prospect camp, followed by a strong main camp. Ansar Khan broke the news: The Red Wings […]