Category: Darren Eliot
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Special DElivery: Red Wings tight-checking ways lead them past Edmonton
By Darren Eliot – The Red Wings kept their tight-checking ways in tact, stifling the young Oilers burgeoning attack for yet another win at Joe Louis Arena. Detroit picked up a 3-0 win Thursday night over Edmonton, improving to 5-1-1 in their last seven contests. The Wings’ defensive mindset meant that not much happened in…
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Special DElivery: Darren Eliot’s power rankings after one period of play
By Darren Eliot – With a third of the condensed regular season already behind us, here is where I have the Western Conference teams. Our Red Wings are in for a fight, unable to get a consistent roster together due to injuries – this after already knowing that this was going to be a season…
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Special DElivery: Tootoo a telling distraction
By Darren Eliot – It has been a long time since a Red Wing player has earned the in-the-moment adulation of the Joe Louis Arena faithful for dropping the gloves like Jordan Tootoo has in his short tenure here in Detroit. That’s because the Red Wings have long eschewed fisticuffs as productive, while they were…
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Special DElivery: X-Factors in a shortened NHL campaign
By Darren Eliot – What took so long to end now gives way to a jiffy start, rejiggered NHL season. How can something that dragged on interminably precede a hockey hastening and awakening of startling swiftness? I’m speaking of the L-word, of course, and how after enduring NHL game deprivation, we have sensory overload as…
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Special DElivery: The most influential people on my life in hockey
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With MiHockey highlighting the Top 50 Most Influential People in Michigan Hockey, I got to thinking about who have been the most influential on my life in hockey. Like most players, I’ll put my dad at the top of the list. He has always supported my efforts, fueling my initial interest in the game and…
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Special DElivery: 98 Degrees of lockout separation
By Darren Eliot – Maybe I just want to believe because, like hockey fans everywhere, I’ve grown weary of the lockout blah, blah, blah. I just want our Red Wings back. In this state of looking for any kind of sign that the two sides will actually sign, I turn to Nick Lachey and Mario…
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Special DElivery: Discussing the “coverage” of the lockout
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By Darren Eliot – As we all follow along as best we can to the finally on-going dialogue between the NHL and NHLPA, the entire process becomes annoying. First, we miss NHL hockey. Second, information is scant, but commentary is epic. Except for a couple of sources – Aaron Ward of TSN and John Shannon…
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Special DElivery: True stories about this year’s USAH Hall inductees
By Darren Eliot – The U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame recently inducted Lou Lamoriello, Eddie Olczyk and Mike Modano into its pantheon of greats for their respective achievements and contributions to hockey in this country. All are certainly deserving of the accolades for a variety of reasons. In Lamoriello’s case, he is a builder beyond…
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Special DElivery: Talking Lou Lamoriello after last night’s U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame induction
By Darren Eliot – The U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame inducts Lou Lamoriello and the very next day the NHL finally moves the negotiating process along with the NHLPA. Coincidence? Probably, but the implications are intriguing. Long known to have much pull inside the league, maybe Mr. Lamoriello didn’t want any acrimonious labor issues sullying…
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Special DElivery: A magical mix of baseball and hockey no more
By Darren Eliot – I’m writing at the time I’d be heading to the Fox Sports Detroit Call Sam Studio for opening night desk duty. Certainly, the morning skate would have been part of the day’s agenda making sure I had my opening night nuggets on the Red Wings and the Predators all lined up.…