Detroit Red Wings News

ANAHEIM, Calif. (CP) _ Teemu Selanne couldn't decide if he felt overwhelming joy or a deep feeling of relief after the Anaheim Ducks hung on for a heart-stopping 4-3 victory over the Detroit Red Wings Tuesday night to earn a trip to the NHL Stanley Cup final. The Ducks looked like they had the game sewn up with a 4-1, third-period lead but saw the Red Wings battle back with goals 6:48 apart. Detroit came close ...

DETROIT (AP) _ The Detroit Red Wings signed forward Tomas Kopecky to a two-year contract on Monday. The 24-year-old from Slovakia appeared in 26 games this season before breaking his clavicle Dec. 14 at Chicago. He lost his footing and hit the boards as he approached the Chicago blue-line, and Blackhawks defenceman Jim Vandermeer fell on top of him. Kopecky, who had one goal this season, would have been an ...

In the battle between the top two teams in the NHL, a little-known forward made the difference for the Detroit Red Wings. Jiri Hudler scored twice Wednesday, including the go-ahead goal, as the Red Wings surged past the Nashville Predators in both the NHL and Central Division standings with a 4-2 win. Hudler's heroics came a night after his goal was the winner in Detroit's 5-2 win in Nashville. ``I ...

Petr Sykora and Joffrey Lupul scored on breakaways exactly two minutes apart late in the third period to pace the Edmonton Oilers to a 3-1 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday night. Just minutes after Wings forward Pavel Datsyuk scored on a brilliant individual effort to knot the game at 1, the Oilers cued the comeback. First Sykora beat Red Wings starter Dominik Hasek stick-side on a breakaway, and then exactly two minutes later Lupul blazed ...

Captain Patrick Marleau scored two of San Jose's five power-play goals and the Sharks rolled to the best start in franchise history with their sixth victory in seven games, 5-1 over the sloppy Detroit Red Wings on Thursday night. Milan Michalek, Mark Bell and Marleau scored in the first 15 minutes to chase Detroit goalie Chris Osgood. Jonathan Cheechoo and Marleau added third-period goals as the Sharks tied their club record for power-play scores, set last February ...

Jean-Sebastien Giguere stopped 21 shots and the Anaheim Ducks beat the Detroit Red Wings 4-1 on Wednesday night. Giguere made saves on the first 20 shots he faced, then his shutout bid ended when rookie Tomas Kopecky beat him at close range with 5:36 left in the game. The goal was Kopecky's first in the NHL. Chris Pronger, Scott Niedermayer and the rest of the Anaheim defenders kept the pressure ...

Many hockey fans in Detroit were probably wondering where the goal-scoring and leadership were going to come from after the Red Wings lost Steve Yzerman to retirement and Brendan Shanahan to the New York Rangers. Robert Lang could be the answer. Lang scored twice in the third period and Kris Draper had a short-handed goal to lead the Red Wings to a 3-1 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Monday night. The 35-year-old centre has had six ...

Ales Kotalik's shootout goal gave the undefeated Buffalo Sabres a 3-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Friday night. Daniel Briere also scored for the Sabres in the shootout, their third in four games this season. Pavel Datsyuk got Detroit's only shootout goal. Chris Drury and Thomas Vanek scored in regulation for Buffalo (4-0-0) and Ryan Miller made 41 saves. Jason Williams had both of Detroit's goals and Dominik Hasek made 15 saves. Vanek's power-play goal with 2:12 left ...

Mathieu Schneider had three goals and an assist to lift the Detroit Red Wings to a 9-2 win over the Phoenix Coyotes on Wednesday night. Mikael Samuelsson scored twice, Pavel Datsyuk added a goal and two assists, and Henrik Zetterberg, Jason Williams, and Tomas Holmstrom had a goal and an assist each. Nicklas Lidstrom had three assists, and Niklas Kronwall chipped in with two. Dominik Hasek made 19 saves for the Red Wings. Schneider, in his 18th season ...

Nicklas Lidstrom and Detroit's defence held Pittsburgh to 13 shots and Johan Franzen scored the pivotal goal off a rebound in the first period as the Red Wings bounced back from an opening-game loss to beat the Penguins 2-0 Saturday night. Dominik Hasek had one of the easiest of his 69 career shutouts, facing only seven shots over the final two periods as last season's Presidents' Trophy winners played their second excellent defensive game in a row. ...

The head of the NHL Players' Association says there is nothing to a lawsuit filed by a group of dissident players. ``The claims issued in the complaint are the same claims that have been made repeatedly over the last 13 months by this tiny group,'' Ted Saskin told The Canadian Press in an interview Tuesday. ``These claims, including the offensive allegations of illegal conduct, are completely without merit as has ...

The fight within the NHL Players' Association isn't over. Chris Chelios of the Detroit Red Wings and Dwayne Roloson of the Edmonton Oilers filed a lawsuit Monday against NHLPA executive director Ted Saskin and former union president Trevor Linden. Former player Trent Klatt is also one of the plaintiffs, asking the court to remove Saskin as executive director because they allege he has repeatedly violated the Association's constitution along with ...

Matt Sundin centred Alexei Ponikarovsky and Kyle Wellwood. Mike Peca was between Chad Kilger and Alex Steen. Matt Stajan had Alexander Suglobov and Wade Belak on his wings. John Pohl centred Darcy Tucker and Nik Antropov. That's what head coach Paul Maurice went with up front in the Toronto Maple Leafs' pre-season finale, a 3-2 shootout loss to the Detroit Red Wings on Sunday night. There might be adjustments by ...

Johan Franzen and Krys Kolanos scored third-period goals and Dominik Hasek made 22 saves in the Detroit Red Wings' 4-2 exhibition victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night. Dan Cleary had a goal and an assist, and Niklas Kronwall also scored for Detroit (5-1-2). John Pohl and Bryan McCabe scored for Toronto (3-4) Franzen took a pass from Cleary in the right circle, made a move and beat ...