Nicklas Lidstrom News

Colorado Avalanche captain Joe Sakic officially retired this afternoon, and the NHL commemorated the event by posting a slate of comments from his contemporaries.

Red Wings GM Ken Holland told the Windsor Star's Dave Waddell that the Red Wings lost their bid for the services of Marian Hossa and chose to let Tomas Kopecky join Hossa in Chicago, Ty Conklin head to the St.

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.

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.

The Detroit Free Press's Helene St. James suggests that Marian Hossa's decision to sign with the Chicago Blackhawks hasn't dimmed the Red Wings' status as Stanley Cup contenders: July 1, Detroit Free Press : Not many squads could lose a 40-goal scorer and still be considered a contender, but the Wings still field world-class centers Pavel Datsyuk ...

The Sports Forecaster conducted its mock draft today, and its Red Wings pick is a Swede not named Carl Klingberg: June 25, The Sports Forecaster : 29.

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.

The Washington Times' Corey Masisak notes that this year's NHL Entry Draft contains a bumper crop of Swedish prospects, and that doesn't necessarily surprise those in the know: June 26, Washington Times : Last summer, the dominant storyline at the NHL draft was a deep and talented crop of defensemen, and in the two years before that it was the rise ...

The Detroit Free Press's Jamie Samuelssen wondered aloud which Red Wings, 2002 Stanley Cup-winners like Nicklas Lidstrom, Brendan Shanahan, Sergei Fedorov, and Dominik Hasek excluded, may garner consideration for the Hockey Hall of Fame down the line: June 24, Detroit Free Press : Which current Wings will get in? I mentioned Chelios already, ...

Red Wings coach Mike Babcock instantly became part of Team Canada's political machine when Steve Yzerman named Babcock Hockey Canada's coach for the 2010 Olympics.

Expressen's Gunnar Nordstrom reports that Chicago Blackhawks forward Patrick Sharp gave Red Wings captain Nicklas Lidstrom a call to apologize about spearing the Wings' captain, who Nordstrom says needed painkillers for the first four games of the Stanley Cup Finals: June 24, Expressen : When Sharp read that Lidstrom made a dramatic recovery for ...

Chris Chelios bade farewell to the Red Wings on good terms earlier this week, and one of the main reasons that he informed the press that he'll remain in Detroit after his hockey career ends involves the person who wears the hockey pants in his family, as the Detroit News's Ted Kulfan noted: June 25, Detroit News : "This is home," he said during a ...

DetroitRedWings.com's Christy Hammond noted the Red Wings-related comments made by Luc Robitaille during the conference call announcing that he would be part of the Hockey Hall of Fame's 2009 induction class, alongside June 24, DetroitRedWings.com : While his heart lies with the Kings, Robitaille has a fond spot for his time with Detroit and the ...

Gerry Cheevers thought the NHL's post-series handshake ritual was meaningless when he won two Stanley Cups during the 1970s.

Red Wings forward/vice president/legend Steve Yzerman will be named part of the Hockey Hall of Fame's 2009 induction class today, and Red Wings GM Ken Holland believes that Luc Robitaille and Brett Hull will join him, as he told the Free Press's George Sipple: June 23, Detroit Free Press : "I'm expecting Hull, Robitaille and Yzerman to go in ...

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.

On Sunday, Mats Sundin told Expressen's Gunnar Nordstrom that he has chosen to decline any invitation from Sweden to participate in the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver.

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 ...

The Detroit Free Press posted a slate of one-opinion-and-then-the-other letters from Pittsburgh Penguins fans who either thought that the Red Wings' faithful behaved with classlessness or class on Friday night, and the Beaver County Times' Mark Madden wants to know that you--yes, you, Red Wings fan--are a total jerk because you do not bow down ...

The NHL experienced some ups and downs during its first NHL Awards show in Las Vegas.