Detroit Red Wings

The Red Wings and their AHL-affiliate, Grand Rapids Griffins, will hold a Red-White scrimmage on Tuesday night, which is free to the public, at 3,500-seat Compuware Arena in suburban Detroit.

The scrimmage will feature 38 players – that’s 19 on each squad – from the parent club as well as minor-leaguers, who have played this season in the American Hockey League.(DetroitRedWings.com)

Sounds like some fun to me. Hope none of the Griffins injure any Red Wings. That would not be cool.

Aren't most of the Griffins Redwings?

Aren't most of the Griffins Redwings?

LOL...Yes, I was refering to the future vs. the current parent club members.

'Z' gets the 'C'. Only the 3rd team captain the Wings have had since 1986...36th over-all.

Now...beat the Blues this Saturday.

After pulling a muscle in his back Thursday, Darren Helm has not been on the ice again with his teammates. With Helm likely unavailable, Justin Abdelkader is expected to center the Wings' checking line against the Blues on Saturday.

whats everyones expectations for Kronwall with the recent departures of key defensemen?

I expect Kronwall to get hurt after a fluky year of great health.    Excellent player, but I don't trust him to be close to 100% for the whole year.    Shortened year is going to hurt him too, he gets some bad bumps and bruises from lining people up for cheap shots.  

Detroit SUX!

Helm is out too now?

I enjoy watching that guy skate.   I hope he comes back. 

Helm is flat out speedy.


I need Kronwall to succeed for personal nerdy fantasy hockey reasons. if it makes you feel better, i'd also like to see Stalberg break out as i have him as a reserve. i know. i know. nerd alert.

look, i only do hockey if that helps. probably doesn't     

I think Kronner will have a decent year.  He'll be on the top PP unit, which should help.  If Sammy can't go for the first few games, I'll be interested to see who Babs put at the other point?  Brendan Smith? 

If Kronwall is paired with Ericsson at even-strength as has been reported, it may help rein in his play a bit.  As a top-pairing defenceman, I would imagine it has been stressed to him the importance of playing position as opposed to going for the huge hit.  Will that stop him?  Not a chance...but it may make him choose his spots a bit more.

One potential negative...in two of the last three years his shooting percentage has been over 10%.  Can he sustain that?  If not, his goals may dip a bit, but he should make up for that in assists.

Great start.   

Great start.    

Even the Islanders looked better.

D'oh!  

Ok, the Wings played pretty badly, but the Griffins more than made up for it . 11- 6 win and a full on bench clearing brawl with the goalies fighting too . I wonder how much the pink jerseys came into play .

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0mEk_OfLWg&feature=youtube_gdata_player]

Sorry you Red Wings fans your team sucked in that game. The Blues totally dominated!

I saw that lil fight. Det looked like it was a preseason game. They had no idea of where their teammate was going to be. It was a total debacle. Sad to watch. UInless you are a Blue's fan. Even still Det offered nothing offensively or defensively. It looked like the Globetrotters and the Generals.

Only a few Wings played in a league prior to the CBA signing, maybe 5 or 6 of everyone who dressed yesterday.    It'll take a couple weeks to get into game shape, hopefully they don't miss out on too many points prior to then.    Anyway, I think Detroit is going to have at least 2 or 3 more stinkers before mid-Feb, but I'm not going to read much into them. 

Postgame interviews were not much better than the game. Kronwall answered questioned sounding embarressed and basically apologizing for the teams effort.

Eaves starting tonight vs the bj's Mursak out. Ericsson is fine and can play but THE MONSTER tweaked his groin and says he won't be able to play for a few games...whatever.
McCollum called up to back up Howie which scares me since he is far from NHL ready imo. The Griffins goalie that got pummelled is more NHL ready me thinks at least from his OHL games I've seen him in.

Tootoo running Boll and Dorsett should be fun to watch.

Who is going to lead the bjs in scoring now that Nash is gone? Jack Johnson their defenseman, lol.

Kenny should call up Tatar. Read he was one of the Griffins that started that donnybrook in Rockford and he's a little guy.

He should have been embarrassed.  They played horribly; two, maybe three decent scoring chances?  No puck control to speak of, and the defence looked as bad as I've ever seen.

That said, I kinda have to agree with Bob...this was the first game, and there likely will be a couple more like this.  It will take some time for them to jell.  I mean, are any of the lines or D pairings exactly as they were at the end of last year?

I don't get FSD, so had to watch the game on the Blues channel.  At one point, one of the announcers said, tongue in cheek, that the Red Wings had been sending e-mails to Lidas saying, "Are you sure...?"  I have to admit that didn't sound too bad to me.

On the plus side, we may have found the second coming of Andreas Lilja, and his name is Kyle Quincey.  How many times did he get caught out of position?

now they're saying Bert doesn't have mono, and may play tomorrow.

who let the Penguins medical staff diagnose him to begin with?

nick who? this is the dawn of the brian lashoff era

Better . But couldnt be any worse than the first game . Getting the win , even though it was against Columbus , goes a long way . Lets see how they do against Dallas .

Kent Huskins!!!

Thank God, our prayers are answered!

I'm a longtime Red Wings fan and feel Mr I is more focused more on the Tigers. Is GM Kenny Holland still alive?

Didn't 83 year old Ilitch go with Chelios to try to sign Suter?