If the Detroit Pistons and Red Wings make the playoffs next month, it will mark the 1st time all four Detroit teams have reached playoffs in a season.

With just over 20 games remaining on most NHL schedules, the pretenders are fading, and the teams genuinely worthy of a ticket to Lord Stanley’s dance are rising, including the Detroit Red Wings. Even if coach Todd McLellan had to call out captain Dylan Larkin.

Steve Yzerman must weigh the cost of strengthening the Detroit Red Wings at the NHL trade deadline on Friday afternoon for their stretch run.

Almost 95,000 people were treated to an exciting battle between two Stanley Cup Playoff hopefuls on Saturday night in the NHL Stadium Series. The Detroit Red Wings and Columbus Blue Jackets faced ...

Radko Gudas, D, Anaheim (age 34, one year remaining at $4 million): He makes more sense for the Red Wings than Dumoulin because he’s a right shot, would add physicality and toughness to the lineup and is under contract for another season.

Veteran center Andrew Copp is expected to miss the remainder of the 2024-25 season after undergoing surgery to repair his left pectoral tendon. The procedure will require a recovery period of four to six months, meaning Copp should be ready to return for the 2025-26 season.

With the deadline just days away, that’s what we’re going to look at using the Stanley Cup Checklist. The Athletic’s Dom Luszczyszyn created the Cup Checklist in 2020 to find common elements essential to a team’s success between a decade of champions.

Detroit — The Red Wings ... Minnesota and defending Stanley Cup champion Florida. To end an eight-year streak of missing the playoffs, the Wings are going to earn it navigating through that ...