The Nashville Predators are healthy and confident. They're also playing the best hockey in the NHL. Martin Erat scored twice and Nashville beat the Detroit Red Wings 3-1 Monday night for its sixth straight victory. The streaking Predators finished off a five-game homestand in style and have won 10 of 12 overall, a stretch that started with the return of J.P.
The TSN story on Georges Laraque's five-game suspension, for his knee-on-knee hit (video) that put Detroit...
The banged-up Detroit Red Wings have lost defenseman Niklas Kronwall for at least a month with a sprained ligament in his left knee. The team announced Sunday that Kronwall will be out four to eight weeks. Kronwall had a leg-on-leg, open-ice collision with Montreal enforcer Georges Laraque on Saturday.
Mike Murphy, the NHL's Senior Vice President of Hockey Operations, appeared on the NHL Live!
Remember when the Detroit Red Wings were royally screwed in last year's Western Conference semifinals...
The Dallas Stars weren't spectacular, just effective. Alex Auld made 31 saves, and Mike Ribeiro, Matt Niskanen and Loui Eriksson scored in Dallas' 3-1 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Wednesday night. Brad Richards and James Neal each had two assists for the Stars. "We played our best game, from start to finish," Auld said.
Henrik Zetterberg and the Detroit Red Wings finally found a way to shake off the rallying Anaheim Ducks. Zetterberg had three goals and two assists in the Red Wings' 7-4 victory on Saturday night. The game featured eight goals in a seesaw third period. Anaheim tied the game three times and the Red Wings regained the lead three times.
The Anaheim Mighty Ducks are trying to unload the $6 million contract of goaltender Jean-Sebastian Giguere but...
The Detroit Red Wings are counting on Jimmy Howard to be their backup goalie. So far, so good. Howard made 31 saves, Henrik Zetterberg scored the go-ahead goal in the third period and Detroit beat the Vancouver Canucks 3-1 on Thursday night. "I think everybody in this dressing room believes I can do it," Howard said.
Philadelphia goalie Ray Emery faces his first matchup with the team that gave up on him when the Flyers host the Ottawa Senators on Thursday night (7 p.m. ET).
The general managers of the NHL took a stride towards eliminating blindside headshots from the game during at their meeting in Toronto on Wednesday.
The Detroit Red Wings have claimed forward Drew Miller off waivers from the Tampa Bay Lightning. The 25-year-old native of Dover, N.J., had no points and two penalty minutes with the Lightning in 14 games this season. A sixth-round draft pick for Anaheim in 2003, he has 15 points and 25 penalty minutes in 67 career NHL games.
Steve Yzerman was nervous before making his NHL debut. He quickly found out he had nothing to worry about. In his first game, in 1983 at Winnipeg, Yzerman had a goal and an assist for the Detroit Red Wings. "I was nervous because I didn't know what to expect and my dad was in town," Yzerman said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press before being inducted into the Hockey...
Two reasons why the NHLPA narrative published by CBC Sports Elliotte Friedman this weekend rises above the usual...
Detroit Red Wings forward Jason Williams could miss two months after fracturing his right fibula in a 5-1 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night. Williams crashed hard into the boards during the second period. The 29-year-old right winger was on the ice for several minutes before being helped to the dressing room.
The Detroit Red Wings followed their new game plan perfectly. Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg scored in the shootout to lift Detroit to a 2-1 win over San Jose, snapping the Sharks' six-game winning streak. Zetterberg also had a goal in regulation, and Chris Osgood made 33 saves for Detroit, which isn't the high-scoring team it has been the past few years.
The Detroit Red Wings have earned home ice advantage in the playoffs for the past 17 years. Detroit senior vice president Jim Devellano says it will take "a miracle" to extend the streak. Devellano says making it to the postseason will be "a grind" without players who combined for 88 goals last year and two more forwards who are out with injuries.
The Ontario Hockey League has reacted strongly to a hit that put a Kitchener Rangers defenceman in critical condition, suspending Michael Liambas of the Erie Otters for the remainder of the season.
CALGARY - Following a 3-1 win over Calgary on Saturday night, the Detroit Red Wings talked about how a complete team effort was the key to victory.
This is the way Detroit coach Mike Babcock wants his team to play. Brad Stuart and Tomas Holmstrom scored 59 seconds apart in the second period, and Alberta native Chris Osgood made 20 saves to help the Red Wings beat the Calgary Flames 3-1 on Saturday night. Kirk Maltby added an empty-net goal for Detroit.
The Montreal Canadiens return to the friendly confines of the Bell Centre on Saturday night, hoping to snap a two-game slide when they host the Toronto Maple Leafs on Hockey Night in Canada (CBC, CBCSports.ca, 6:30 p.m. ET).
Red Wings forward Valtteri Filppula (VALT-Teri FILP-Pu-la) is out indefinitely after breaking his right wrist. Filppula was injured Thursday night in a loss in Edmonton. The Finn has six points this season, tying him for sixth on the team entering Saturday night's game in Calgary.
Around 1 p.m. EST this afternoon, the following email blast was sent out from FAN 590 in Toronto: According to...
CBCSports.ca senior reporter Tim Wharnsby names Alex Ovechkin, Ilya Bryzgalov and Steven Stamkos as his top performers in the NHL from Thursday night.
VANCOUVER, B.C. - With the Detroit Red Wings looking down-and-out early against the Vancouver Canucks, Jimmy Howard came to the rescue with his first win in almost four years.
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