Todd McLellan has learned on his coaching journey that leadership is not always spelled out by the letters sewn onto players’ jerseys. “Kris Draper and Kirk Maltby, they didn’t wear A’s,” said ...

SRed Wings coach Todd McLellan believes that leadership of a team should extend beyond two or three players. But he is also old school when it comes players wearing the “C” and the “A” He made it ...

The past four months have to be the best 120 days of the Jake Walman NHL career. In June, he played in the Stanley Cup Final. On Monday, the Oilers gave him a new seven-year contract for $49 million.

This is the most pivotal year in Steve Yzerman’s tenure as general manager of the Detroit Red Wings. Writers have and will say that every year until either the Red Wings make the playoffs or Yzerman ...

Patrick Kane’s immediate concern when the 2025-26 NHL season starts Thursday is helping the Detroit Red Wings’ end their nine-year playoff drought. But he also has a handful of personal milestones ...

The drive from Grand Rapids to Detroit is only 150-some miles, maybe two hours and 30 minutes, depending on traffic. But it seems much longer when you are an anxious Griffins player trying to travel ...

Six days before the start of 2025-26 NHL season, the Detroit Red Wings are still considering keeping three more youngsters Forward Carter Mazur, goalie Michal Postava and defenseman William Wallinder ...

It’s an important development that draft picks Emmitt Finnie, Axel Sandin Pellikka and Michael Brandsegg-Nygard are in a position to earn a Detroit Red Wings roster spot. But perhaps the bigger story ...

With nine days remaining before the start of the Detroit Red Wings 2025-26 NHL season, we seem to have more questions about this team than we have answers. Here is a look at what we know and don’t ...

On a night when the Detroit Red Wings’ performance level displeased coach Todd McLellan, goalie John Gibson gave up two goals. In his first two preseason games, he owns a goals-against average under 2 ...

The Red Wings also assigned forwards Alex Doucet, Jakub Rychlovsky and Eduards Tralmaks to the Griffins. The Red Wings also released forwards Carson Bantle and Gabriel Seger, and defensemen Alex ...

Parts available to assemble a fourth line include JT Compher, Jonatan Berggren, and any of Soderblom, van Riemsdyk, or even Rasmussen. It’s unlikely that the Red Wings will keep a kid in the show for ...