Category: For Players
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Red Wings announce first 15 roster cuts
By @MichaelCaples – The Detroit Red Wings have announced the first 15 roster cuts from training camp, as the team works to trim their roster before the start of the 2015-16 season. Here are the players released or assigned to their respective clubs today, as the Wings went from 72 to 57 players:
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Red Wings captain Henrik Zetterberg talks about the start of training camp
By Jesse O’Brien – TRAVERSE CITY — With a new face roaming the bench this season, the Red Wings likely will lean harder on one of their more familiar, and certainly most bearded, ones. Entering his third year as captain, Henrik Zetterberg will play a crucial role in helping Detroit maintain a sense of…
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Jeff Blashill talks about his first day at training camp; Franzen talks about his new coach
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By Pat Evans – TRAVERSE CITY — Jeff Blashill is used to training camps. He’s run American Hockey League camps the previous three seasons at the helm of the Grand Rapids Griffins. The new Red Wings bench boss, who spent one season in Detroit under former head coach Mike Babcock, said the main difference this…
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Red Wings’ training camp starts with scary collision between Jerome Verrier and Darren Helm
By Jesse O’Brien – TRAVERSE CITY — Less than 20 minutes into the Detroit Red Wings’ 2015 training camp, first-year head coach Jeff Blashill already had a scary situation on his hands. Camp invitee Jerome Verrier was carried off the ice on a stretcher following a vicious collision with veteran Darren Helm during drills…
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Livonia native Phil Osaer hired for new goaltender-specific USA Hockey ADM role
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By @MichaelCaples – USA Hockey announced two new members for their American Development Model staff today, and one of them is a Michigan native selected for a brand-new role. Phil Osaer, a Livonia native and Ferris State alum, will be the ADM manager of youth goaltending programs, a role in which he “will help…
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PHOTOS: Friday action at the Compuware Honeybaked AAA Invitational
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Check out MiHockey’s photos from Friday’s action at the Compuware Honeybaked AAA Invitational, featuring games from USA Hockey Arena in Plymouth and Suburban Ice Farmington Hills. (Photos by Michael Caples/MiHockey)
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Dylan Larkin is ready for his first Red Wings training camp
By @MichaelCaples – Dylan Larkin said that when he saw his friends returning to school, he was disappointed he wasn’t joining them. When they actually started classes, however, Larkin wasn’t so upset. “It’s been fun,” the Waterford native said of his first summer as a professional hockey player. “It’s kind of sad seeing all…
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Watch a 12-year-old Michigan native pull off the Jonathan Toews water bottle trick shot
There’s a viral video going around that we’re especially taking pride in today because of where it originated. Carter Pauli, a 12-year-old who says he is from Michigan in his YouTube bio, shared a video on Sept. 13 of him recreating what has become an iconic trick shot by Jonathan Toews. The Chicago Blackhawks’ captain…
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PHOTOS: Red Wings kick off 2015 Community Tour at Coast Guard Sector in Detroit
The Detroit Red Wings kicked off their annual Community Tour – a series of stops on their way to training camp in Traverse City – with a stop at the U.S. Coast Guard Sector in Detroit. Justin Abdelkader, Petr Mrazek, Tomas Tatar and Jakub Kindl represented the Winged Wheel in the first of four stops…
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EA SPORTS bounces back with NHL 16
By @StefanKubus – Before you can begin watching NHL hockey on your television, you can get a head start on the action on the virtual ice, thanks to the latest installment in the long-running EA SPORTS NHL video game franchise. NHL 16 hit stores Tuesday and brings a wealth of new features that were disappointingly…