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The Tampa Bay Lightning are looking to jump-start their offense. A game against the Detroit Red Wings should be a good place to start. The normally potent Lightning were blanked at home by Minnesota, 3-0, on Thursday. Continue to Article

March 08, 2019 4:57:pm EST

Andreas Athanasiou provided plenty of offense to make up for the loss of two key players. Athanasiou scored in the third period and had the only goal in a shootout , lifting the Detroit Red Wings over the scuffling New York Rangers 3-2 on Thursday night to snap an eight-game losing streak. ''He's an electric player when he's on and I thought he was highly electric all night,'' Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill said. Continue to Article

March 07, 2019 11:47:pm EST

The Detroit Red Wings will end the 2018-19 NHL season the same way they began it: without defenseman Mike Green. Green has been shut down for the rest of the season, thanks to a reactivation of the same virus that kept him out for most of October. The initial thought was that Green would miss 7-10 days due to the flare-up, but the Red Wings announced Thursday that Green had seen a specialist and the choice was made to end his season. Continue to Article

March 07, 2019 11:51:am EST

The New York Rangers and Detroit Red Wings are doing a fine job improving their draft lottery position. The Rangers (27-28-11, 65 points) have lost their last five games, while the Red Wings (23-33-10, 56) carry an eight-game slide into the matchup. Both occupy the same spot in their respective divisions, with the Rangers entrenched in the seventh spot in the Metropolitan and the Red Wings seventh in the Atlantic. Continue to Article

March 06, 2019 3:48:pm EST

Ted Lindsay, who earned the nickname "Terrible Ted" on the ice and took that pugnacious style off it to help pioneer the NHL players' union, died on Monday. The former Detroit Red Wing captain and Hall of Famer passed away at his home in Oakland, Michigan, according to a family spokesman. In 1966, the Hockey Hall of Fame wasted no time inducting the Canadian left winger into the elite body by waiving the customary three-year waiting period, and the players' union decided to rename their MVP trophy after him in 2010, dropping former Canadian prime minister Lester B. Pearson's name in favour of Lindsay. Continue to Article

March 04, 2019 9:37:pm EST