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Red Wings prospect Brian Lashoff was signed by Detroit last September, and when he completed his OHL season with the Kingston Frontenacs, he played lights-out hockey for the Grand Rapids Griffins.

In the past few days, I've heard Marian Hossa called second-rate, a nobody, useless.

Over the past week, the Red Wings lost the services of three forwards and a goaltender who, as the Oakland Press's Pat Caputo notes, posted 65 goals, 65 assists, 130 points, 25 wins, 2 shootout losses, and a total of 52 points in the standings.

Somewhere along the way, either the Red Wings decided that they didn't quite have the salary cap space to re-sign one of their unrestricted free agent forwards, or Justin Abdelkader's playoff performance made a helluva impression on Detroit's braintrust.

Here is one way to look at Marian Hossa's departure from Detroit: The Red Wings won the Stanley Cup without him in 2007-08 and will head into 2009-10 with virtually all of the key components back from that championship club.

Red Wings defenseman Brian Rafalski is one of 34 players invited to the U.S. Olympic Hockey Orientation Camp from Aug.

Red Wings defenseman Brian Rafalski was among the 34 players invited to the U.S. Olympic team's orientation camp near Chicago from Aug.

The Vancouver Province's Jim Jamieson analyzed the salary cap-management skills of the New York Rangers and Detroit Red Wings, serving as examples of "bad" and "good" systems of getting the job done.

Red Wings defenceman Chris Chelios won't be brought back for the 2009-2010 season, reports the Detroit News's Ted Kulfan: June 22, Detroit News : "It was kind of understood last summer, after Cheli signed, that the 2008-09 season would be the last one for Cheli as a Red Wing," said [Red Wings GM Ken] Holland, noting the need for the Wings to bring ...

Defenceman Chris Chelios now counts himself as a former Red Wing, having learned on Monday that Ken Holland won't bring him back for an eleventh season in Detroit, but Holland had nothing but positives to say about Chelios's time as a Wing, as the Detroit News's Ted Kulfan noted: June 23, Detroit News : "It was kind of understood last summer that ...

Red Wings general manager Ken Holland met with 47-year-old defenseman Chris Chelios this afternoon and, as expected, told him the club will not offer him a contract for next season, ending the future Hall of Famer's 10-year career in Detroit.

The Red Wings' Pavel Datsyuk holds the Selke Trophy for defense and the Lady Byng Trophy for sportsmanship Thursday during the NHL Awards Show in Las Vegas.

The Red Wings admitted that they dealt with even more injury issues than initial reports suggested during their playoff run, including a knee injury to Tomas Holmstrom...And while Nicklas Lidstrom described his injury to MLive.com's own Ansar Khan as very painful , the Free Press's Michael Rosenberg found that Lidstrom nearly lost one of his ...

The Detroit Red Wings fell excruciatingly short of securing dynasty status this season.

With the NHL Entry Draft approximately a week and a half away, TSN asked Hockey's Future's Shane Malloy to handicap the "needs" of the Western Conference's teams.

It only takes one esteemed writer to give a rumour shelf life, and the Oakland Press's Pat Caputo's suggestion that the Detroit Red Wings should go after Jay Bouwmeester has officially gotten up and walked, thanks to ESPN's John Buccigross: June 16, ESPN : [W]hen it's all said and done, [Marian] Hossa will make plenty of money the rest of his ...

On the afternoon of May 24, as his Red Wings teammates took the ice in Chicago for Game 4 of the Western Conference finals, captain Nicklas Lidstrom wondered about the future of his testicles.

The Detroit Free Press's Helene St. James reports that Red Wings captain Nicklas Lidstrom had surgery to repair a damaged testicle during Detroit's conference final series against the Chicago Blackhawks: June 13, Detroit Free Press : "I thought it was OK that Saturday when I practiced," Lidstrom said, "but Sunday, Sunday I was just in too much ...

The Detroit Red Wings face off against the Pittsburgh Penguins for the Stanley Cup tonight in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals , and the Detroit and Windsor press weighed in regarding heroes, surprises, and potential outcomes.

The Red Wings did not shirk their media obligations after their 2-1 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins, and they did their best to assess what went wrong on Friday, as NHL.com's Phil Coffey noted: June 13, NHL.com : "It's hard coming up short one game and you're so close to the Stanley Cup," Wings captain Nicklas Lidstrom said.