Category: For Coaches

  By @MichaelCaples – DETROIT – Let’s face it, for the 2017 preseason, the Hockeytown faithful are tuning in for two reasons. The rink and the youngsters. The latter delivered Monday night against the Pittsburgh Penguins. The former did, as well, if you attended the game at Little Caesars Arena (at least we hope it…

  By @MichaelCaples – Just a few hours before their game against the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Red Wings announced a series of roster cuts to their preseason roster. The Wings have assigned forward Zach Nastasiuk, defenseman Dan Renouf and goaltender Matej Machovsky to Grand Rapids. They have also released forwards Mike Borkowski, Austen Brassard, Connor…

  On Saturday, for the first time ever, Little Caesars Arena hosted a game within its new state-of-the-art, 20,000-seat hockey rink…at 3:30 p.m. That’s right. Three and a half hours before the Red Wings played in their first game at the new building, the ’05 Rochester Rattlers and the ’05 Macomb Mavericks squared off on…

Sept. 23 was a lot more than just the Detroit Red Wings​’ first-ever game at Little Caesars Arena​. The new home of Hockeytown had on-ice events starting at 8 a.m., including the first-ever youth game at LCA, the first Little Caesars AAA game at Belfor Training Center and the first day of the new LCAHL…

Check out video interviews with coach Jeff Blashill and players Frans Nielsen and Martin Frk, as the Red Wings talk about the first-ever game at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit.