Category: Red Wings
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Check out this video about the community involvement the Red Wings had this past season
By @MichaelCaples – The Red Wings just released a video today featuring the many ways the Detroit Red Wings Foundation and the team’s community relations department interacted with Hockeytown this past season. Check it out below, and when you’re done, read our ‘Hockey Jobs’ article about Christy Hammond, the team’s community relations manager.
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Red Wings announce promotional schedule for 2014-15 season
By @MichaelCaples – The Detroit Red Wings announced their promotional schedule for the 2014-15 season today, and there are plenty of things to circle on your calendar if you’re planning on heading down to The Joe this year. Here’s a full breakdown: Oct. 9 vs. Boston – Opening Night & 2014-15 Magnet Schedule Giveaway…
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Motte sets up Larkin for game-winner in first WJEC international game
By @MichaelCaples – The top players USA Hockey has to offer for the upcoming World Junior championship are competing for roster spots in Lake Placid this week, and a few Michigan Wolverines wasted no time establishing themselves. With Team USA’s ‘Blue Team’ taking on Finland in the first day of international competition at the…
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Talking Griffins, Red Wings and Korean hockey with Jim Paek
By Pat Evans – GRAND RAPIDS – When Jim Paek first went back to South Korea in 1982, there was hardly a national team. The team was second tier, nowhere close to competing with top national programs. Still, Paek, who was born in Seoul, South Korea but grew up in Toronto, kept tabs on…
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Hockey Jobs: How Keith Perera went from working at a Cali hockey shop to being brand manager for Warrior Hockey
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By @MichaelCaples – WARREN – Keith Perera might have been born in Montreal, but for the last six years he’s been living in Michigan and working for one of hockey’s fastest growing companies. It’s in that journey from Montreal to the Mitten, however, where Warrior’s brand manager for hockey built a playbook for on…
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Red Wings announce two assistant coach hires in Jim Hiller and Andrew Brewer
By @MichaelCaples – The Red Wings have rounded out their assistant coaching positions, it appears. Detroit announced today the hirings of Jim Hiller and Andrew Brewer as the club’s new assistant coaches. The pair will be joining head coach Mike Babcock and recently hired assistant coach Tony Granato on the Wings’ staff list this fall.…
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Red Wings agree to terms on a three-year deal for Tomas Tatar
By @MichaelCaples – The Wings locked up one of their top young forwards today. Detroit announced today that they have agreed to terms on a new three-year deal with Tomas Tatar. The 23-year-old forward, a native of Ilava, Slovakia, recorded 19 goals and 20 assists for 39 points in 73 games this past season,…
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BarDown’s All-Michigan Red Wings squad; who would you pick?
By @MichaelCaples – Since NBA superstar Lebron James decided to return to his home state of Ohio and play for the Cleveland Cavaliers once again, there’s been a lot of talk about what certain teams would look like if they had all homegrown players. Here is what TSN’s BarDown site came up with for the…
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Jim Paek named head coach of Korean national team
By @MichaelCaples – The coaching changes have continued for the Red Wings’ organization; this time, it’s a change in Grand Rapids. Longtime Griffins assistant coach Jim Paek is taking the head coach and program director positions for the Korea Ice Hockey Association’s national team, it was announced today. Paek, the first Korean-born player to ever…
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River Rymsha talks about the Red Wings’ development camp
By Nick Barnowski – Born into a family that has hockey in their DNA, River Rymsha is carving out his own path on the ice. The son and nephew of pro hockey players Andy and Steve Rymsha, respectively, River is focused on becoming the next member of the family to rise to the top…