Update from Tuesday's practice: After one game, Mike Babcock already has scuttled the pairings he tried to stick with Monday at Nashville. During Tuesday's practice, Nicklas Lidstrom was still with Jonathan Ericsson, but the Wings plan to use Brad Stuart with Brian Rafalski on the other top pair, and use those four against opposing top lines. Babcock said the rest of the shifts will...
The Red Wings started the season by dropping their first two games to St. Louis in Sweden. They finished October having lost seven games. Although a slight exaggeration, this is a team that doesn't normally lose it's seventh game until December! Maybe their slow start was a result of this veteran squad not getting much time off after two straight runs to the finals. Maybe this missed Marian Hossa,...
Chatting with Brett Hull this morning in Toronto at the Hockey Hall of Fame was a good reminder of why this guy was so entertaining both on and off the ice. Always a great quote, he was his usual loquacious self when I asked him about Nicklas Lidstrom, a guy who is guaranteed to be enshrined here one day, too. "He does everything great," Hull said of his former teammate. "My theory...
More photos » by NATHAN DENETTE - AP ZOMBIE KESSEL WANTS GOOOOOOOOOOOALS Browse more photos » Editor's Note: To get a sense of the quality of person that Malik is take a look at how he dared to denigrate the memory of Teeder Kennedy when he passed away earlier this year. Despite everyone, including Gordie Howe himself, clearing Kennedy of any blame on the play that led to his brain injury...
What happened: Henrik Zetterberg scored the tying goal in the third period and made the clinching goal in the shoot-out to give the Wings a victory over the Sharks on Thursday night. Pavel Datsyuk also scored in the shoot-out. Zetterberg had tied the game at 5:38 of the third, when he knocked in a rebound on a shot from captain Nicklas Lidstrom. The Sharks opened the scoring at 14:41 of the first,...
The leadership has changed names on the office door four times in the last few years, in the last two months; the only sure thing has been a revolving door of departing employees, some by choice, and some by other less amicable means. The image of the organization is in tatters while the membership continues to try and figure out what they’re doing and why they’re doing it, no one seems...
from Rob Rossi of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, ...a quote uttered last postseason by their assistant general manager, Jim Nill, seems to confirm my suspicion that after winning the Cup in 2008, the Red Wings spent much of last season tip-toeing on the fine line between confidence and arrogance — and erroneously crossed it in the playoffs. “Sometimes, you’re a product of your environment,”...
What happened: The Wings gave up a goal on the first shift of the game when Brian Rafalski couldn't clear the puck in time, allowing Henrik Sedin to beat Chris Osgood cleanly. Christian Ehrhoff scored on a wrist shot at 7:05, on Vancouver's fourth shot on net. Then Todd Bertuzzi put a shot into Roberto Luongo's right leg pads and Nicklas Lidstrom hit a crossbar, but the...
via NHL.com, Vancouver forward Ryan Johnson was taken off the ice on a stretcher after crashing into the end boards early in the second period of the Canucks’ game against Detroit on Tuesday night. With just under three minutes gone in the period, Johnson raced into the Detroit zone, swerved past defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom but lost his balance and crashed into the boards head-first. Medical...
from Scott Burnside of ESPN, Speaking of the NHLPA, the irony is just too rich. Former executive director Paul Kelly was dismissed in August by the NHLPA’s 30 player reps in large part due to a fishy staff review spearheaded by general counsel Ian Penny, who assumed Kelly’s role on an interim basis. Now, those player reps have decided they need to get straight how all of this nastiness...
TORONTO (October 23, 2009) – The National Hockey League Players’ Association (NHLPA) Executive Board has voted 25-5 passing a resolution to have Rob Blake, Chris Chelios, Nicklas Lidstrom and Mark Recchi form a committee to review NHLPA operations and submit its recommendations to the Executive Board of the NHLPA. Rob, Chris, Nik and Mark will convene a conference call in the next few days...
via TSN, Sources say the NHLPA has completed its vote and has passed the implementation of a four member review committee to investigate the unions internal operations. Veterans Chris Chelios, Mark Recchi, Rob Blake and Nicklas Lidstrom will handle the review which is expected to include interviews with current PA employees, discussions with former PA executives Paul Kelly and Glenn Healy, plus the...
Quebec announces plan to attract NHL with $400M arena (MalaysiaNews.net) QUEBEC — Quebec City Mayor Regis Labeaume on Friday announced plans to build a $400-million NHL-sized arena in the hope of bringing back a professional hockey team to the city that was home to the No… Sporting News’ NHL Top 50: Nos. 11-30 (SportingNews) Sporting News Sidney Crosby is voted No. 1, but Jarome...
DETROIT (AP) Nicklas Lidstrom reached a milestone — and helped the slow-starting Detroit Red Wings get back to .500. Lidstrom became the first European defenseman and eighth overall to reach 1,000 points, assisting on two goals in Detroit's 5-2 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday night.
Nicklas Lidstrom (notes) reached a milestone—and helped the slow-starting Detroit Red Wings get back to .500. Added by: sam77 Viewed: 1 time(s) Tags/Keywords: Detroit_Red_Wings Nicklas_Lidstrom Added On: 2009-10-16
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