News Category: Detroit Red Wings

With season on the line, Wings face ‘dangerous’ Canadiens

The Detroit Red Wings enter Monday night’s home game against the Montreal Canadiens with their playoff hopes fully alive after being on life support on Saturday. Playing at Toronto, the Red Wings needed at least one point to avoid being mathematically eliminated from playoff contention. The situation got even more tense when a lethal Maple Leafs offense went on a power play with 2:45 remaining in regulation and the game tied at 4-4. But the

Red Wings focus on moving up, visit Maple Leafs

The Detroit Red Wings’ push for the playoffs has been slowed to a crawl after the team dropped seven of their past nine games (2-4-3). The Red Wings (38-32-9, 85 points) will look for a reversal of fortune on Saturday night when they visit Auston Matthews and the Toronto Maple Leafs (46-24-9, 101 points). Detroit’s latest setback was a 6-5 overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday. That additional point secured by Pittsburgh represents

Red Wings visit Pittsburgh with ‘huge’ playoff implications

The calendar says the Stanley Cup playoffs haven’t started yet, but the standings indicate that the game Thursday between the Pittsburgh Penguins and visiting Detroit Red Wings might as well be a postseason affair. The Penguins (36-30-12) and Red Wings (38-32-8) are tied with 84 points each, one point out of the second wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference, and each has four games remaining. “(Detroit) is a team that we’re directly fighting with, so

Stakes high, pressure soaring as Red Wings host Capitals

The next two games will go a long way toward deciding whether the Detroit Red Wings end their seven-season playoff drought. They are battling for the final wild-card berth in the Eastern Conference. They’ll host the Washington Capitals on Tuesday and visit the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday — two of the other teams that also are fighting for their playoff lives. Detroit (38-31-8, 84 points) collected a 3-1 home win over the Buffalo Sabres on

Red Wings, Sabres both fighting to keep playoff hopes alive

It’s been a turtle race for the second wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference. Several teams remain in the mix, some with better odds than others to grab it. Two of those teams looking to stay in the wild-card race go head-to-head when the Detroit Red Wings host the Buffalo Sabres on Sunday. The Red Wings (37-31-8, 82 points) enter Saturday night’s action one point behind the Pittsburgh Penguins (36-30-11, 83 points), who currently hold

Rangers take aim at Red Wings in possible playoff matchup

Friday could serve as a potential preview of a first-round NHL playoff series when the New York Rangers visit the Detroit Red Wings. The Rangers hold the NHL’s best record and are on a tear, having won six of their last seven games following a 4-3 home win over the New Jersey Devils on Wednesday. New York (51-21-4, 106 points) is trying to hold off Carolina for the Metropolitan Division title and outlast Boston for

Lightning hope to carry March momentum into Red Wings tilt

Though Monday’s home game against the Detroit Red Wings kicks off April and the start of the final 2 1/2 weeks of the regular season, the Tampa Bay Lightning are probably sad to see March fly away from the calendar. Tampa Bay reeled off nine wins in 11 games (9-1-1) in the month. The only setbacks were a 6-3 home loss to the Calgary Flames on March 7 and a 4-3 overtime loss 16 days

Panthers aim to pick up pace vs. desperate Red Wings

It promises to be a battle between two good, albeit struggling teams, on Saturday afternoon when the Detroit Red Wings visit the Florida Panthers in Sunrise, Fla. The Panthers (46-22-5, 97 points) have clinched a playoff spot. That happened on Thursday. But there wasn’t much joy in that since Florida also fell for the sixth time in seven games (1-5-1) with a 3-2 setback to the New York Islanders. Detroit, which has lost three straight

Hurricanes to work on goal-scoring touch vs. Red Wings

The Carolina Hurricanes will try to pick up the pace offensively in order to meet the high standard they set for themselves throughout most of the past month. The next test will come Thursday at home when they face the Detroit Red Wings at Raleigh, N.C. The Hurricanes lost 4-1 in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, making it three of their past four games when they failed to score more than two goals in regulation. “We couldn’t

Red Wings, Capitals duel with eye on a wild-card spot

For the first time in several weeks, the Detroit Red Wings find themselves on the outside looking in for an Eastern Conference playoff berth. The red-hot Washington Capitals have passed them in pursuit of the second wild-card spot. Those two teams now look to settle their differences at Washington D.C., in a pivotal contest on Tuesday. Detroit (36-29-6, 78 points) is 3-9 since Feb. 29, falling one point behind Washington (35-26-9, 79 points). The Capitals,