Detroit Red Wings: Grading The Top Six Forwards

Petr Mrazek will be in net for Friday’s game against Toronto, Ansar Khan of MLive reports. The 2015 class is heavy on Wings and Michigan inductees: Wings greats Nicklas Lidstrom and Sergei Fedorov highlight the class, which also includes Angela Ruggerio, plus Peter Karmanos in the builder category.

The Detroit Red Wings made it a top priority to sign Forward Justin Abdelkader to a long term deal before season’s end.

“I think we’ve improved throughout the course of the year”, Red Wings coach Blashill said. Along with his line-mates, Justin Abdelkader and Dylan Larkin, Henrik has helped to carry the Red Wings through a trying first month of National Hockey League action during the month of October.

The Wings have won back to back contests and are a game above the.

Brad Richards (lower back pain) skated briefly today.

Unprovoked by any questions pertaining to Kadri early into his morning press conference, Leafs head coach Mike Babcock made a decision to come to the player’s defence in public, saying he had read something suggesting Kadri was off to a “slow start” this season. 921 save percentage in six starts.

Both former coaches never hesitated to call out individuals for misdeeds on the ice, although Wilson comments about the defensive miscues of Nazem Kadri in post-game media scrums were more scathing for Carlyle’s “just ok” comments towards James Reimer.

If previous coaches had taken a tough-love approach with Kadri, who has been receiving top-line minutes for much of this season, it appears Babcock is not interested in going down that road, at least not yet.

23 with a shoulder injury, continues to practice but is not ready to play. Babcock said. “He’s been phenomenal so what I see & what you see are sometimes not the same thing”. I thought they got off to a real good start this year.

Clune was to remain on the Leafs’ 23-man roster until noon on Saturday, meaning the team would seemingly still be over the player limit. “They’ve got good players”.