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Reports: Red Wings Legend Gordie Howe has Died at 88

Gordie Howe, 1928-2016

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Quick Hits: Rivalry Revisited

Greetings from Denver! Today's edition of Quick Hits has one main goal in mind: relive the glory days and pump you up for tonight's Alumni Game and tomorrow's Stadium Series matchup.

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Quick Hits: Eurotwin Reunion

Red Wings News Game Recap: Red Wings offense surges in 5-1 victory of Islanders - Winging It In Motown In case you missed or want to relive Kyle's recap of Saturday's cool game. Obscure NHL Rules: How the Flyers Had Too Many Men with 5 Skaters | Winging It In Motown

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Quick Hits: Larkin Loses Breakaway Vote; Wideman Suspended Indefinitely

Red Wings News Red Wings are average, would shuffling things make them a contender? | Winging It In Motown J.J. takes a look at potential ways to take the Red Wings from average to contender, while asking for your input as well. Dylan Larkin is already becoming the Detroit Red

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What #BellLetsTalk Means to Me

Do you remember the worst day of your life? I don’t mean that phrase in a casual or hyperbolic way; I mean can you, the person reading this post, literally identify the single most difficult day that you have ever experienced? I hope you can’t, because if you

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Dylan Larkin Gets the Craig Custance Treatment

Craig Custance, a favorite of ours, wrote an extremely engaging profile of Dylan Larkin for ESPN.com (not Insider!). Custance covers several topics, but the biggest takeaway is that the Red Wings sensed the "It" factor with Larkin, and were sold on him early in the draft process. As the

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Quick Hits: Red Wings Getting Healthy; Connor McDavid Suspension Looming?

For Thursday, October 15, 2015

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Red Wings 2015-16 Season Preview: The Goalies, Part II of II

With the final hours of a Red Wings-less world upon us, we'll be wrapping up our season preview series today. In the first installment of this series we mostly touched on how we know what Jimmy Howard is, while Petr Mrazek is largely still a mystery. In Part II I'll

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Red Wings 2015-16 Season Preview: The Goalies, Part I of II

If you read my first post for WIIM, you know that goaltending has long been a passion of mine. My favorite player growing up (and subsequent reason I'm a Red Wings fan) was Dominik Hasek, and I've played the equivalent position in soccer for nearing 20 years. Upon joining the

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Red Wings 2015 Draft Strategy: Best Player Available is Still the Best Strategy

The first round of the 2015 NHL Entry Draft is tonight and you might think the Red Wings need a defenseman. Analytics suggest this may not be the case.

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Quick Hits: Jim Devellano is Mean; Caps top Rangers

Red Wings News Griffins' playoff success bodes well for Red Wings' future | FOX Sports This should have been a puff piece about the Red Wings' future players and their success in the AHL, but Devellano's comments about Anthony Mantha unsurprisingly became the center of attention. You can read uvgt2bkdnme's terrific

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Jeremy Roenick Provides Actual Hockey Analysis of Luke Glendening's Goal

Nice shirt, J.R.

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Quick Hits: Mrazek Steals one for the Red Wings

Red Wings News Petr Mrazek carries Detroit Red Wings to Game 1 win over Lightning 3-2 | Detroit Free Press Good god that was not how they drew it up. But no matter; three more to go! Lightning GM Steve Yzerman still has love for the Red Wings - Cross Checks

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Quick Hits: Yzerman vs. Detroit; Playoff Results

Red Wings News Lightning GM Yzerman: Detroit Red Wings are a 'special franchise' | Detroit Free Press The Red Wings start their playoff journey tonight in Tampa Bay. Did you know the Lightning's GM used to play for the Red Wings? Red Wings' Johan Franzen: Head injury put me 'in a

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Quick Hits: Griffins Win; The Second Round Sucks

Red Wings News Griffins 5, IceHogs 3: Teemu Pulkkinen's third goal the difference | MLive.com The Pesky Griffs won game one of their second round series against Rockford on the late third goal of the Teeny Pokemon's natural hat trick. This is the only playoff hockey we have left, people.

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Quick Hits: Babs' Last Ride?; Patrick Kane Returns

Red Wings News Wojo: Babcock might be on last run with Wings This column is a little dramatic, but I sort of feel the same way. It's also likely a result of over-analyzing all of his words and actions this season. What do you think? Will Babs be in Detroit

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Quick Hits: Mrazek Gets the Call

Red Wings News 'I can't wait': Mrazek gets nod over Howard Petr Mrazek's approach and calm, cool demeanor is one of the reasons that I said I'd be fine if he started in the playoffs. After securing a shutout in the season finale, the overwhelming majority of you agreed with

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Quick Hits: Howard Benched; Tankmania 2015 Main Event

Red Wings News Jijmmy Howard pulled in Detroit Red Wings' 6-4 loss to San Jose Sharks Giveaways, soft goals, and more of the same from the Red Wings. Is this rock bottom? We can only hope. Plan for Red Wings arena neighborhood on hold An update on the zoning request

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Quick Hits: Injury and Arena Updates

Red Wings News Detroit Red Wings' Erik Cole out three games, others day-to-day | Detroit Free Press Some good news and some bad news in here. Detroit Red Wings Q&A: Danny DeKeyser on WMU, AHL championship, being club's Shemp | MLive.com A quick interview with the former college free agent

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Quick Hits: Goalie Controversy in Detroit?; Hammond Wins Again

Red Wings News Players-only meeting gets Red Wings' attention as team says 'enough is enough' and bounces back | MLive.com Henrik Zetterberg attempted to downplay the significance of the meeting, and I tend to agree with that line of thinking when it comes to these things. But Mike Babcock made

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Franzen Injury Update: Estimated Concussion Totals in Double-Digits

NHL teams are usually coy, if not downright specious, regarding injuries to their players. That's what makes the news out of Detroit tonight a little more startling. From Bill Roose at the official Red Wings website, emphasis added: Still symptomatic from his latest concussion, Johan Franzen skated on his own

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Ryan Lambert Admits he was Wrong About the Red Wings

Resident Red Wings detractor Ryan Lambert will write anything about hockey if you donate $50 to the charity he works with. And I mean A-NY-THING.

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Quick Hits: Kings Drop Wings; Patrick Kane Injured in Win

Red Wings News Quick, Kings, frustrate Red Wings | FOX Sports That's eight wins in a row for the Kings and rumors of their demise have been greatly exaggerated. This team still has great underlying numbers, and the game could have gone either way. The Wings, meanwhile, are 2-1-1 on this

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Quick Hits: Howard Handles the Hawks; Nobody Wants to Play in Canada (or Buffalo)

Red Wings News Howard is sharp again in SO win | Detroit Red Wings - Recap I have a lot of friends who are Blackhawks fans, so that was fun. JIMMEH! Henrik Zetterberg of Detroit Red Wings feeling healthy, producing at elite level | NHL.com - NHL Insider We all know

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