Lidstrom, Fedorov head to Hall of Fame

DETROIT – They were drafted together. Now they’ll ride into hockey immorality together. On Monday, the Hockey Hall of Fame announced that Nicklas Lidstrom and Sergei Fedorov, teammates for 12 seasons during the Red Wings’ resurgence to Stanley ...

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RAMSAY AND SIMON JOIN GRIFFINS' COACHING STAFF

The Detroit Red Wings on Monday announced the hiring of Bruce Ramsay and Ben Simon as assistant coaches for the Griffins. In addition, assistant coach Mike Knuble, goaltending coach Jeff Salajko and video coach Bill LeRoy will reprise their coaching roles with Grand Rapids.

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Fedorov should join Lidstrom in '15 class

DETROIT – Following a week-long family vacation in Miami, Nicklas Lidstrom is in Detroit today, where he’s expected to get some great news. It is here – a town that he spent 20 remarkable NHL seasons – that he’ll receive a call on his cell phon...

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By The Numbers: Darren Helm

By The Numbers will highlight the Red Wings on-ice accomplishments in the 2014-15 season. Each week during the off-season, By The Numbers will profile a different player on the team, focusing on their statistical highs. This week we focus on speed...

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Wings addressed need in Day 2 of draft

SUNRISE, Fla. – For the first time in 22 years, the Red Wings went an entire NHL draft without landing a Swedish prospect. Following up their first-round selection of Russian-born center Evgeny Svechnikov on Friday, the Red Wings capped the two...

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Draft has grown in pomp and pageantry

SUNRISE, Fla. – Pomp and pageantry was definitely not part of the NHL’s inaugural draft when six general managers sat around a hotel room in Montreal to divvy up 21 player prospects. There were no calls to the podium. They weren’t greeted on st...

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Wings land big Russian in first round

SUNRISE, Fla. – For Tyler Wright and the Red Wings amateur scouting staff, Evgeny Svechnikov was too good to pass on in the first round of Friday night’s NHL draft at BB&T Center. The Red Wings used the No. 19 overall pick on the 6-foot-2 Russi...

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Datsyuk has ankle surgery

SUNRISE, Fla. – Pavel Datsyuk had surgery on Friday to repair ruptured tendons in his right ankle, general manager Ken Holland disclosed as the Red Wings prepared to settle in to BB&T Center for the NHL’s annual amateur draft. The Red Wings’ st...

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Mock drafts have Wings picking a Swede

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Is it possible that the Red Wings make franchise history tonight when the first night of the NHL draft commences at BB&T Center? Several mock drafts certainly believe so. Should the Red Wings hold on to their first-rou...

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League unveils Wings' season schedule

DETROIT – In 106 days, the Red Wings will begin their 89th NHL season against a very familiar foe. The Toronto Maple Leafs and Mike Babcock will match wits with the coach’s former team when they visit Joe Louis Arena for an intriguing matchup i...

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Red Wings Firsts: Xavier Ouellet

DETROIT – It didn’t ricochet off of a set of shin pads en route to the net or deflect off the backside of an unfortunate defender. In fact, Xavier Ouellet’s first-career goal was a thing of beauty set up from a productive passing sequence that ...

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Blashill names his first Wings' coaching staff

DETROIT – As the first American-born head coach in franchise history, perhaps it’s only fitting that Jeff Blashill rounded out his first Red Wings’ coaching staff with a patriotic flavor. “I guess for me it means I got some other guys to help c...

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Red Wings name assistant coaches

DETROIT – Detroit Red Wings Executive Vice President and General Manager Ken Holland announced today that the team has finalized its coaching staff under new head coach Jeff Blashill. Tony Granato and Pat Ferschweiler will work behind the bench wi...

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FERSCHWEILER AND NOEL-BERNIER JOIN DETROIT COACHING STAFF

The Detroit Red Wings on Tuesday announced the hiring of Pat Ferschweiler as assistant coach and Dave Noel-Bernier as video coach.

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GRIFFINS' YOUTH HOCKEY CAMP AND GOLF OUTING RETURN

This summer, the Griffins are inviting fans to participate in either of two long-running West Michigan traditions: the Griffins’ Youth Hockey Camp, to be held the weeks of July 27-31 and Aug. 3-7 at Griff’s IceHouse at Belknap Park, and the 21st annual Griffins Youth Foundation Golf Classic at Egypt Valley Country Club on Monday, Aug. 31.

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By The Numbers: Danny DeKeyser

By The Numbers will highlight the Red Wings on-ice accomplishments in the 2014-15 season. Each week during the off-season, By The Numbers will profile a different player on the team, focusing on their statistical highs. This week we focus on defen...

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TIM GORTSEMA PROMOTED TO PRESIDENT

Griffins majority owner and CEO Dan DeVos on Friday announced the promotion of Tim Gortsema to president of the American Hockey League franchise.

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TODD NELSON NAMED HEAD COACH OF GRIFFINS

The Detroit Red Wings on Friday named Todd Nelson as the new head coach of the Griffins.

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WATCH LIVE: GRIFFINS NAME NEW HEAD COACH

Click here to view a live stream of today's 11 a.m. press conference announcing the new head coach of the Griffins.

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SUMMER FUN BEGINS WITH THREE BIKE HELMET GIVEAWAYS FOR KIDS

Three hundred fifty children will receive a new bike helmet at no cost next week when the Griffins and Safe Kids Greater Grand Rapids host a trio of events to kick off the 12th summer of the Griffins’ “Put A Lid On It!” (PALOI) bike helmet safety program.

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Wings Season Highs: Luke Glendening

DETROIT – An efficient fourth-line center and penalty killer appearing in every game this season for the Red Wings, Luke Glendening proved to be an important role player in the lineup after a career-best season. As a rookie in 2013-14, it took ...

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By The Numbers: Stephen Weiss

By The Numbers will highlight the Red Wings on-ice accomplishments in the 2014-15 season. Each week during the off-season, By The Numbers will profile a different player on the team, focusing on their statistical highs. This week we focus on forwa...

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Notes: Wings plan for pro scout meetings

DETROIT – Next week the Red Wings will conduct three days of pro scout meetings as general manager Ken Holland and the front office staff prepares for the NHL’s free-agency period, which opens July 1. It’s at these meetings that newly-minted he...

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GRIFFINS ALUMNI TRACKER

Discover where your favorite Griffins alumni will be playing and coaching during the 2015-16 season.

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Red Wings Firsts: Tom McCollum

DETROIT – Beginning the season as a backup goalie in AHL Grand Rapids, Tom McCollum never imagined he’d get a shot at his first-career NHL win. Recalled by the Red Wings on Jan. 11 – one day after Jimmy Howard suffered a severe groin injury – M...

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Blashill's wife knew this day would come

DETROIT – Erica Blashill can’t pinpoint the time that she met her eventual husband on the campus of Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan. Though she does remember thinking he was driven enough to reach whatever lofty goals that he se...

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Blashill hire was a year in the making

DETROIT – There are similarities with the Red Wings new head coach and the man who held the title for the previous 10 seasons. Jeff Blashill and former Wings coach Mike Babcock share parallel coaching styles, have some comparable mannerisms, an...

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Wired for success, Blashill is new coach

DETROIT – Jim and Rosemary Blashill couldn’t have known then that their decision to move a young family out of Detroit for the northeastern end of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula would one day produce the 27th head coach in Red Wings franchise history....

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RED WINGS NAME JEFF BLASHILL HEAD COACH

The Detroit Red Wings on Tuesday announced that Jeff Blashill has been named the 27th head coach in franchise history, marking the fourth Griffins head coach in 19 seasons to earn a promotion to the National Hockey League.

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HOME OPENER SET FOR OCT. 16

The Griffins will open the home portion of their 20th anniversary season on Friday, Oct. 16 at Van Andel Arena, one of six 2015-16 home dates that have been confirmed by the American Hockey League.

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By The Numbers: Johan Franzen

By The Numbers will highlight the Red Wings on-ice accomplishments in the 2014-15 season. Each week during the off-season, By The Numbers will profile a different player on the team, focusing on their statistical highs. This week we focus on power...

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Red Wings Firsts: Alexey Marchenko

DETROIT – Last February, Alexey Marchenko became just the eighth Russian-born defenseman in history to score a goal for the Red Wings, making a splash with his first-career NHL goal. A seventh-round draft pick of the Wings in 2011, Marchenko de...

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END OF THE ROAD

Cory Conacher’s goal early in the second period was all the Utica Comets needed in Game 6 of the Western Conference Finals on Tuesday, as they claimed a berth in the Calder Cup Finals with a 2-0 victory over the Griffins at the Utica Memorial Auditorium. The Comets will now face the AHL’s regular season champions, the Manchester Monarchs, for the right to hoist the Calder Cup, with Game 1 in New Hampshire set for Saturday.

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