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Wings Staff
Monday 08-04-2008 3:11pm ET
RED WINGS RE-SIGN ASSISTANT COACH PAUL MACLEAN,
ADD BRAD MCCRIMMON AND KEITH MCKITTRICK TO STAFF
Detroit… Detroit Red Wings Executive Vice President/General Manager Ken Holland today announced the team has re-signed Assistant Coach Paul MacLean to a three-year contract and added Brad McCrimmon as Assistant Coach on a three-year contract and Keith McKittrick as Video Coach on a two-year contract. In keeping with club policy, additional terms of the contracts were not disclosed.
MacLean enters his fourth season as Assistant Coach with the Red Wings. A defending Stanley Cup Champion, MacLean will continue to assist Head Coach Mike Babcock and the newly appointed coaching staff. MacLean and Babcock have coached together since their first season in the NHL where they spent two seasons (2002-04) with the Anaheim Mighty Ducks.
A native of Nova Scotia, Paul and his wife have three children.
McCrimmon joins the Wings organization having spent the last four seasons as Assistant Coach with the Atlanta Thrashers. He has served as Assistant Coach for the Calgary Flames and the NY Islanders and Head Coach for the WHL’s Saskatoon Blades. McCrimmon also helped lead Team Canada to a gold metal as Assistant Coach at the 2003 World Under-18 Championships. McCrimmon has over 25 years of NHL experience, including 18 seasons as an NHL defenseman, playing for Detroit during the 1990-91, 1991-92 and 1992-93 seasons. A native of Plenty Saskatchewan, McCrimmon is married and has two children.
McKittrick comes to Detroit having served as Assistant to the Head Coach/Video Coordinator for the Michigan State University Men’s Hockey Team for three seasons. Prior to his work at Michigan State, McKittrick worked as an assistant to the Video Coach with the Minnesota Wild. McKittrick has acquired international experience as part of the coaching staff from the 2006 Three Nations Tournament and as Video Coordinator for Team USA at the 2007 World Junior Championships.
Bowman is Gone To Chi
Thursday 07-31-2008 1:12pm ET
The Chicago Blackhawks are naming legendary coach Scotty Bowman as a Senior Advisor, Hockey Operations on Thursday. Ranking first among all NHL coaches in games coached (2,141), wins (1,244) and Stanley Cups (nine), Bowman is revered as an all-time great behind the bench. Bowman, 75, was a head coach for thirty NHL seasons with the St. Louis Blues, Montreal Canadiens, Buffalo Sabres, Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings and has served as a consultant with the Red Wings since he retired after winning the 2002 Stanley Cup. He'll join a talented young Blackhawks franchise that is led on the ice by reigning NHL Rookie of the Year Patrick Kane, as well as first-line centre Jonathan Toews, providing support to the front office team headed by President John McDonough and General Manager Dale Tallon. Bowman's son Stan is an Assistant GM, Hockey Operations with the Blackhawks. Filppula Inks a New Deal
Wednesday 07-30-2008 12:09pm ET
The Wings have signed forward Valtteri Filppula to a five-year deal worth $15 million, thereby avoiding an arbitration hearing scheduled for Friday. Filppula, 24, had 19 goals and 17 assists in 78 games last season.
New Wings Assst Coach
Monday 07-21-2008 3:47pm ET
The Sporting News's Craig Custance reports that the Detroit Red Wings have hired former Atlanta Thrashers assistant coach (and Wings alumnus) Brad McCrimmon to fill the assistant coaching spot left vacant by Todd McLellan's departure for San Jose: July 21, The Sporting News: The Detroit Red Wings have hired Brad McCrimmon as an assistant coach on Mike Babcock's staff, filling the vacancy created when Todd McLellan left to take the head job in San Jose. McCrimmon was the associate coach for the Atlanta Thrashers last season and a finalist for the head job with the Thrashers. He told the Sporting News he has agreed to terms to join the Red Wings and expects to sign the deal when he goes to Detroit next week. "I was there for three years as a player and loved it," said McCrimmon, who played for the Red Wings from 1990-93. "Now it's a great opportunity to go back. It's a good situation in the sense of the city, the team and what they've been doing there for a long time." A Couple Free Agents Re-Signed
Monday 07-21-2008 6:43am ET
 M-Live is reporting that the Red Wings have brought back a couple players. Here is the link to the story. The Wings have apparently re-signed goaltender Jimmy Howard and defenseman Jonathan Ericsson. There is no official word from the club yet, and team officials couldn't be reached on Sunday, but the NHL Players Association's Web site lists both players as signed for next season. Howard's salary is listed at $600,000, Ericsson's at $550,000. Ericsson was poised to sign a three-year, $2.7 million contract, according to a Swedish newspaper.
The Wings have at least three more players they will re-sign shortly: forward Valtteri Filppula and defensemen Chris Chelios and Kyle Quincey. They also have made contract offers to forwards Darren McCarty and Aaron Downey.
2008-2009 Schedule Released
Thursday 07-17-2008 2:36pm ET
Here's the official announcemnt from the Detroit Red Wings website . . . . For the first time in three seasons, the defending Stanley Cup champion Red Wings will play at least one game against every team in the league in 2008-09. In the NHL schedule released on Thursday, the Red Wings will play each of their three Central Division rivals (Chicago, Columbus, Nashville, St. Louis) three times at home and three times on the road. The Wings will play another 40 games inside the Western Conference with two home and two road games against the remaining 10 Western teams. The remaining 18 games involve at least one game each against all 15 Eastern Conference teams. The Wings will face Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Atlanta each twice – both home and away. The Wings will face the Penguins -- the team they beat to win their 11th Stanley Cup in franchise history – on Tuesday, November 11 at Joe Louis Arena, and on Sunday, February 8 at Pittsburgh’s Mellon Arena. The Wings will open the season against Original Six rival Toronto on Thursday, October 9 when a championship banner ceremony is planned. Besides the Maple Leafs and Penguins, the nine home games against Eastern rivals include meetings with the New York Rangers (Oct. 18), Atlanta (Oct. 24), New Jersey (Nov. 8), Montreal (Nov. 26), Buffalo (Jan. 10), Philadelphia (March 17), and the New York Islanders (March 27). The 2008-09 schedule will feature five Friday games, eight Saturday games, and three Sunday games at Joe Louis Arena. Last season, the Red Wings hosted eight Friday games, four Saturday games, and four Sunday games. An obvious omission to the 2008-09 schedule is the traditional New Year’s Eve game that has been a regular staple in the Red Wings’ schedule since 1950. Instead, the Wings and Blackhawks will play a home-and-home series on Dec. 30 and Jan. 1. The New Year’s Day game will be the league’s second annual Winter Classic, an outdoor contest, which will be played at the 41,000-season Wrigley Field. The Wings only have four home games in January with nine games on the road, including a season-long, six-game trip that begins in Dallas on Jan. 12 and finishes at Columbus on Jan. 27. Last November, the NHL’s Board of Governors approved the new scheduling matrix, which ensures that each team plays every club at least one, either home or away. The new format represents a change from a matrix approved by the Board for the 2005-06 season that called for four games (40 total) against each non-division conference opponent, eight games (32 total) against each in-division opponent and 10 inter-conference games. Fans can still lock in to last year’s ticket prices by becoming a season-ticket holder prior to August 4. For season ticket information, call the Red Wings Ticket Sales and Service Department at 313-396-7575.
Red Wings 2008-09 Regular-Season Schedule
| Day | Date | | Opponent | Time | | Thu | Oct 9 | | Toronto | 8 p.m. | | Sat | Oct 11 | at | Ottawa | 7 p.m. | | Mon | Oct 13 | at | Carolina | 7 p.m. | | Thu | Oct 16 | | Vancouver | 7:30 p.m. | | Sat | Oct 18 | | N.Y. Rangers | 7 p.m. | | Wed | Oct 22 | at | St. Louis | 8:30 p.m. | | Fri | Oct 24 | | Atlanta | 7:30 p.m. | | Sat | Oct 25 | at | Chicago | 8:30 p.m. | | Mon | Oct 27 | at | Los Angeles | 10:30 p.m. | | Wed | Oct 29 | at | Anaheim | 10 p.m. | | Thu | Oct 30 | at | San Jose | 10:30 p.m. | | Sun | Nov 2 | at | Vancouver | 10 p.m. | | Sat | Nov 8 | | New Jersey | 7 p.m. | | Tue | Nov 11 | | Pittsburgh | 7 p.m. | | Thu | Nov 13 | at | Tampa Bay | 7:30 p.m. | | Fri | Nov 14 | at | Florida | 7:30 p.m. | | Mon | Nov 17 | | Edmonton | 7:30 p.m. | | Thu | Nov 20 | at | Edmonton | 9 p.m. | | Sat | Nov 22 | at | Calgary | 10 p.m. | | Mon | Nov 24 | at | Vancouver | 10 p.m. | | Wed | Nov 26 | | Montreal | 7:30 p.m. | | Fri | Nov 28 | | Columbus | 7:30 p.m. | | Sat | Nov 29 | at | Boston | 7 p.m. | | Mon | Dec 1 | | Anaheim | 7:30 p.m. | | Thu | Dec 4 | | Vancouver | 7:30 p.m. | | Sat | Dec 6 | | Chicago | 7 p.m. | | Wed | Dec 10 | | Calgary | 7:30 p.m. | | Fri | Dec 12 | at | Dallas | 8:30 p.m. | | Sat | Dec 13 | at | Phoenix | 9 p.m. | | Mon | Dec 15 | | Colorado | 7 p.m. | | Thu | Dec 18 | | San Jose | 7:30 p.m. | | Sat | Dec 20 | | Los Angeles | 7 p.m. | | Tue | Dec 23 | | St. Louis | 7:30 p.m. | | Fri | Dec 26 | at | Nashville | 8 p.m. | | Sat | Dec 27 | at | Colorado | 9 p.m. | | Tue | Dec 30 | | Chicago | 7:30 p.m. | | Thu | Jan 1 | at | Chicago * | 1 p.m. | | Sat | Jan 3 | at | Minnesota | 8 p.m. | | Tue | Jan 6 | | Columbus | 7:30 p.m. | | Thu | Jan 8 | | Dallas | 7:30 p.m. | | Sat | Jan 10 | | Buffalo | 7 p.m. | | Mon | Jan 12 | at | Dallas | 8 p.m. | | Wed | Jan 14 | at | Anaheim | 10 p.m. | | Thu | Jan 15 | at | Los Angeles | 10:30 p.m. | | Sat | Jan 17 | at | San Jose | 10:30 p.m. | | Tue | Jan 20 | at | Phoenix | 9 p.m. | | Tue | Jan 27 | at | Columbus | 7 p.m. | | Thu | Jan 29 | | Dallas | 7:30 p.m. | | Sat | Jan 31 | at | Washington | 12:30 p.m. | | Mon | Feb 2 | | St. Louis | 7 p.m. | | Wed | Feb 4 | | Phoenix | 7:30 p.m. | | Sat | Feb 7 | | Edmonton | 3 p.m. | | Sun | Feb 8 | at | Pittsburgh | 3 p.m. | | Tue | Feb 10 | at | Nashville | 8 p.m. | | Thu | Feb 12 | | Minnesota | 7:30 p.m. | | Fri | Feb 13 | at | Columbus | 7 p.m. | | Sun | Feb 15 | | Colorado | 5 p.m. | | Wed | Feb 18 | | Nashville | 7:30 p.m. | | Fri | Feb 20 | | Anaheim | 7:30 p.m. | | Sat | Feb 21 | at | Minnesota | 8 p.m. | | Wed | Feb 25 | | San Jose | 7:30 p.m. | | Fri | Feb 27 | | Los Angeles | 7:30 p.m. | | Sat | Feb 28 | at | Nashville | 8 p.m. | | Tue | Mar 3 | at | St. Louis | 8:30 p.m. | | Wed | Mar 4 | at | Colorado | 9 p.m. | | Sat | Mar 7 | | Columbus | 7 p.m. | | Tue | Mar 10 | | Phoenix | 7:30 p.m. | | Thu | Mar 12 | | Calgary | 7:30 p.m. | | Sat | Mar 14 | at | St. Louis | 2 p.m. | | Sun | Mar 15 | at | Columbus | 5 p.m. | | Tue | Mar 17 | | Philadelphia | 7:30 p.m. | | Fri | Mar 20 | at | Atlanta | 7:30 p.m. | | Mon | Mar 23 | at | Calgary | 9 p.m. | | Tue | Mar 24 | at | Edmonton | 9:30 p.m. | | Fri | Mar 27 | | N.Y. Islanders | 7:30 p.m. | | Sun | Mar 29 | | Nashville | 5 p.m. | | Thu | Apr 2 | | St. Louis | 7:30 p.m. | | Sun | Apr 5 | | Minnesota | 5 p.m. | | Mon | Apr 6 | at | Buffalo | 7 p.m. | | Thu | Apr 9 | | Nashville | 7:30 p.m. | | Sat | Apr 11 | | Chicago | 3 p.m. | | Sun | Apr 12 | at | Chicago | 5 p.m. |
* Winter Classic at Wrigley Field, ChicagoFinally An Announcement; Plus Part of Schedule Out
Thursday 07-17-2008 8:53am ET
It Official . . . .
The NHL has award the 2009 Winter Classic to the Chicago Blackhawks, who will play host to the Detroit Red Wings on January 1, 2009 at Wrigley Field.
Wrigley Field was chosen over early favorite Yankee Stadium.
Last season's Winter Classic between the Penguins and Sabres on January 1st drew an NHL record 71, 217 fans to Ralph Wilson Stadium in Buffalo.
The meeting between the two clubs will be the 701st all time. No NHL opponents has played more regular season games against each other.
ALSO the Wings released patr of their schedule. The rest comes out on Thursday. Here's a break down from M-Live . . . The Wings have announced that they will be hosting Toronto on Oct. 9 in their regular season opener. In addition to the outdoor game, the Wings also revealed that Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Atlanta are the three Eastern Conference teams they'll play both home and away. The other 12 they'll play just once, six home and six away. The schedule will be released tomorrow.
Here's part of the release:
"The Detroit Red Wings will raise the franchise's 11th Stanley Cup Championship banner on October 9 at Joe Louis Arena. Following the ceremony, the Wings will begin their defense of the 2008 Stanley Cup by hosting an Original Six-rival, the Toronto Maple Leafs at 7:00 pm.
In addition to the home-opener, four other Red Wings games were officially announced by the National Hockey League today including the Wings and Chicago Blackhawks facing off in the third regular-season outdoor game in League history on New Years Day 2009 at Chicago's Wrigley Field. The NHL also announced the three at-large games provided by this year's new scheduling system. The new format has Detroit facing all Eastern Conference foes at least once and three Eastern teams twice next season. Those three teams that will play a home-and-home series vs. Detroit are Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Atlanta.''
Some Prices Come Down
Wednesday 07-16-2008 8:26am ET
The Red Wings sent out a mailing Tuesday for season-ticket holders that includes a decrease in prices for about 1,900 seats. Season-ticket holders must put a deposit down of at least 25% of the total cost for tickets by Aug. 4 to lock in seats at last season's prices. The Wings hired a ticket inventory strategy company to help figure out what areas in Joe Louis Arena had not sold season tickets well in the past. As a result, the team lowered prices for some rows behind the nets from $54 to $44 and from $44 to $33. Drake Retirement
Tuesday 07-15-2008 12:43pm ET
Red Wings forward Dallas Drake is expected to make an official retirement announcement during a 1 p.m. conference call today. Drake told the club a couple of weeks ago that he was leaning toward retirement and it should move on without him. The 16-year NHL veteran began his career with the Wings in 1992-93 and finished it in Detroit this past season by winning his first Stanley Cup
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