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Tampa Bay stays composed to beat Detroit in Game 1
Valtteri Filppula might have saved the Tampa Bay Lightning’s Game 1 victory Wednesday night, but that doesn’t mean the Detroit Red Wings were simply unlucky. Down 1-0, there are already issues that...
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Tyler Johnson haunts Red Wings yet again
Tyler Johnson is listed at 5-foot-9, and that would be generous if he were wearing his skates at the time. When he plays the Detroit Red Wings in April, he might as well be Godzilla. Friday, Johnson...
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Blashill’s lineup moves pay off big for Red Wings in Game Three
With the Detroit Red Wings down 2-0 to the Tampa Bay Lightning, Jeff Blashill was facing the trickiest decision of his first season behind the bench. Tampa Bay’s New Triplet Line – Nikita Kucherov,...
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Sabres have more to gain by letting Foligno go
With the Stanley Cup playoffs under way, most of the NHL’s fans are focused on the best tournament in sports. Half of the league, though, has headed to the offseason, and the Buffalo Sabres are on the...
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Lightning’s special teams outwork Red Wings, take 3-1 series lead
Game 4 of the Tampa Bay Lightning’s series against the Detroit Red Wings can be analyzed by every statistic in the analytics quiver. At the end of the night, though, only one thing mattered. Detroit’s...
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J.T. Brown: The prototype of the new bottom six
The game is changing. Everyone in the NHL can feel it, even If some teams have been slow to react. Hockey is now played at a breakneck speed, and while hits and physicality are still celebrated, they...
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Babcock delivered on puck possession promises for Maple Leafs
Don’t be fooled by the Toronto Maple Leafs’ last-place finish this season — 2015-16 was an undeniable success for the organization. Not in the traditional sense of course, as the Leafs couldn’t be...
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Time for Lightning to squash Jonathan Drouin trade talk
Fairy tales rarely pan out in pro sports. History is littered with Cinderellas who couldn’t quite make it back home before the clock struck midnight. The NHL playoffs are no different, and for every...
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Column: Red Wings roster isn’t built to compete
It took 11 years, but the salary cap era has finally caught up to the Detroit Red Wings. The sky isn’t falling for the Original Six franchise, but if it were would anyone on the roster be fast enough...
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Mrazek’s blunder sends Red Wings home for the summer
Ben Bishop and Petr Mrazek battled for 58 minutes Thursday night. That’s when Mrazek made the play that will haunt him for the rest of his career. Just as it looked like Game 5 was going to overtime,...
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Mitch Marner is ready for the NHL in 2016-17
This time last year, Toronto Maple Leafs fans hoped that they would win the draft lottery and the opportunity to select Toronto-area wunderkind Connor McDavid. Slated to draft fourth, they had the...
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Sweeney’s offseason stumbles sank Bruins
It seems like it has been a lifetime since the Boston Bruins were the cream of the NHL crop. Just a few years ago, the Bruins had a three-season span in which they made it to the Stanley Cup Final...
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Column: Red Wings need to prioritize rebuilding
The Detroit Red Wings have made the postseason for the last 25 years, making them just the fifth North American sports team to accomplish that feat. Now general manager Ken Holland needs to forget that...
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How the Red Wings shouldn’t handle a Datsyuk trade
It’s going to be a busy summer for the Detroit Red Wings. General manager Ken Holland definitely has his work cut out for him. His team was bounced in the first round for the fourth time in five years...
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Who Sabres fans should cheer for in round two
Though the Buffalo Sabres provided fans with an exponential improvement over their last two seasons, their effort was still not enough to propel them into the Stanley Cup playoffs. The only thing left...
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Larsson signing benefits both Sabres and their AHL team
The Buffalo Sabres have announced they’ve signed their first restricted free agent of the 2015-16 offseason. Center Johan Larsson has inked a one-year deal. According to TSN’s Bob McKenzie, Larsson...
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Leafs could be perfect fit for Radulov’s return
After a long escape to the KHL, Alexander Radulov is returning to the NHL. Again. The oft maligned Russian star has caused a frenzy, as rumors swirled about his potential return to North America. That...
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How Auston Matthews will guide the Leafs’ return to relevancy
And so it begins. After finally committing to a genuine rebuild early last year – ‘scorched earth’ plan and all – and bottoming out this season with a 29-win performance (the fewest ever posted by the...
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