Posts Tagged ‘ Detroit Red Wings ’

Points-Blown & Season Series (2013)

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January 17, 2013

KEY Q = my standings, default sorted by points-blown (explanation of points-blown here). NHL = the official standings, via NHL.COM. DIV = Divisional ranking. C is Central; N is Northwest; P is Pacific. R/OT/SO = wins and losses in each of regulation, over-time, and shoot-out. GR = games-remaining. ROW = regulation plus OT (but...
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Loktionov skating in Detroit, talks playoffs, coaching change

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September 11, 2012

Loktionov viewed a mid-season coaching change from Terry Murray to Darryl Sutter as the spark that ignited the Kings’ fire.“We changed the coach and everything started out much better,” Loktionov said. “On the ice and off the ice, everybody was happy to play hockey again.”


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Tuesday’s Must Read: “some stories are better backwards.”

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July 17, 2012

Ellen Etchingham: Patrick Roy has transcended the mundane positional errors and puckhandling miscues of ordinary goalies. He’s invented a whole new caliber of screwing up. And, after seventeen seasons of seeing every kind of shot and every kind of shooter hockey has to offer a hundred times over, he’s invented the only sort of mistake...
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“If we don’t move younger people in, we’re going backwards.”

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July 12, 2012

In Detroit, people are wondering with 39-year-old Tomas Holmstrom will be returning for his sixteenth season. Report: Teams expressing interest in Tomas Holmstrom | ProHockeyTalk Gregg Krupa of the Detroit News caught up with Wings GM Ken Holland and asked about Holmstrom’s future with the club. Noting that Holland was “using much the same...
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Why I prefer to just say no to Doan

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July 10, 2012

Going into next season with the roster intact (which, by the way, is some kind of miracle) is a silver lining inside a cloud no-one is talking about yet. The conventional wisdom is that a huge contributing factor to Stanley Cup hangover is the fact that the team has just played 100+ games compared to...
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Whither Clifford?

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July 4, 2012

Of the six left wings mentioned -- Brown, Penner, Gagne, King, Nolan and Clifford -- one of them (Gagne) is almost certain to leave after next season (if he can even make it through 2012-13 healthy), and another (Penner) is not any kind of lock to return after next year either. I would say,...
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Is signing Jarret Stoll a “must-do”?

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June 13, 2012

If you're comparing Stoll to Loktionov, don't forget that Loktionov is going to get older and better, while Stoll is going to get older and worse. I don't think Loktionov is going to have too much trouble scoring 20+ goals a year, once he starts getting a regular shift. Do you want to see...
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3-0, 3-0, 3-0, 3-0

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June 4, 2012

New blog. Good stuff. Read the whole thing. Kings of Hockeywood: 3-0, 3-0, 3-0, 3-0. No team in the long history of the NHL had ever gone ahead of their opponent 3 games to none in all four rounds of the Stanley Cup Finals as the Kings have now done against Vancouver, St....
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Regular Seasons of Cup Winners (plus this year’s Kings and Devils)

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May 27, 2012

Maybe I’m just over-sensitive, but whenever I read that “these are the two lowest seeds ever to compete for the cup,” I hear the desire to put an asterisk next to the accomplishment of whoever wins this next series, like it’s somehow the fault of “parity” or the current playoff format that we are...
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Shoulder pads don’t have to be weapons

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May 20, 2012

With regard to dangerous hits, we often hear that "respect" has gone out of the game. I doubt it. It's the risk of injury for the checker that's gone out of the game. And -- for some reason -- it's easier to get players to respect (read: protect) themselves than it is to get...
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