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By the Numbers: What Detroit Is Really Losing With Its Free Agency Exodus

It's been a one-way street out of Detroit this offseason, as the Red Wings have watched Marian Hossa, Mikael Samuelsson, Ty Conklin and Tomas Kopecky sign with rival teams in the Western Conference, while Jiri Hudler attempts to make a jump to the KHL (even though the NHL isn't all that happy about it). Such losses would...

FanHouse Chats With Blue Jackets Beat Writer Aaron Portzline

Thursday night, the Columbus Blue Jackets will begin their quest into the strange new world that is the NHL playoffs. To get an idea of the atmosphere around town, and to continue to learn more about this once anonymous franchise, we discussed its upcoming series against the Detroit Red Wings with Aaron Portzline, beat...

Newsmakers in the NHL: Zetterberg Leads Detroit Over San Jose

Red Wings 4, Sharks 1: In the fourth -- and final -- regular season installment of Western Conference Finals Preview '09, Detroit picked up a 4-1 win over San Jose on Wednesday night. Henrik Zetterberg scored a pair of goals in the win, including a shorthanded marker early in the second period to give the Wings a...

What Team USA Could Look Like in Vancouver Olympics

We're less than one year away from the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Once again, the NHL will take a mid-season break and allow its players to participate in the Games. After a wonderful run to silver in Salt Lake City back in 2002, Team USA was nothing short of disappointing in Torino three years ago. The Americans...

The Ice Sheet: Was the Wrong Man Fired in Pittsburgh?

Late last night after news of Michel Therrien's firing as head coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins was announced, NHL Network ran an extended excerpt of a conference call with Pittsburgh general manager Ray Shero. For the most part, his comments were pretty much the same thing you hear from GMs after they kick a head coach to...

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04/11/12 Helene St. James breaks down the Red Wings'... Source: Detroit Free Press - Detroit MI The Predators loaded up in this area the last two months, adding a scorer in Andrei Kostitsyn, a face-off and penalty killing pro in Paul Gaustad at the trade deadline and another scorer in Alexander Radulov a month later, pushing Patric Hornqvist out of the top six and making the third line more dangerous.