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Kris Draper singled out his Swedish teammates one by one, willing to agree to any amount they chose. At stake was the outcome of Friday afternoon's World Championship semifinal between Draper's Canada and Sweden, native country of about a third of the Wings' locker room.
The Detroit Red Wings sound as if the Western Conference finals have lasted long enough. They're ready to eliminate the Dallas Stars on Saturday in Game 5 and earn a spot in the Stanley Cup finals for the first time since winning a title in 2002. "We want to take care of it right away....
FREE PRESS STAFF AND NEWS SERVICES • May 16, 2008 Confused about why a goal by the Wings' Pavel Datsyuk was disallowed because of goaltender interference by Tomas Holmstrom in Game 4 Wednesday night? Let's look at NHL Rule 69, which governed the call. Rule 69 reads, in part, "Goals should be...
By Matt Sussman Special to Toledo Free Press The national media picked up on it, so that's my Pavlovian cue to weigh in on it. On May 10, Detroiters were treated to Red Wings playoff hockey, Pistons playoff basketball and Tigers baseball. Detroit Red Wings: Chris Osgood is 9-1 in the playoffs,...
Dallas finally went into the locker room with a lead in the Western Conference finals. The Stars needed nearly 11 full periods, a debatable call that wiped out a Detroit goal and a favorable ruling on their score to accomplish that. For the desperate Stars, trying to avoid a sweep and elimination...
John Niyo / The Detroit News DALLAS -- It has been awhile -- 15 years, to be exact -- since Dominik Hasek was in this situation: His team is in the playoffs, he's healthy and he's a bystander. Not since 1993 -- one Stanley Cup ring, two Hart Trophy awards and six Vezina Trophy awards ago -- has...
Is it bad form to start thinking about the Stanley Cup finals when you've just lost a game? Because a lot of pundits started talking up a Red Wings-Pittsburgh matchup when both teams took 3-0 leads in their respective conference finals, because statistically speaking ...
St Louis Blues defenseman Al Macinnis possessed a famously, and dangerously, fierce slapshot. My friend gave me a hockey puck; not just any hockey puck, but an official game puck, the same as the ones used by the teams of the National Hockey League. Perhaps if you paid me the NHL league minimum...
By Terry Frei The Denver Post Osgood has 9-0 record in the 2008 playoffs. It was why he so hungrily pursued Terry Sawchuk's record for career victories, and it also involved his impossible-to-dispute stance that for all the changes in the game as years passed, as the meaning of such numbers as...
Wings forward Jiri Hudler playing bigger than he looks BY HELENE ST. JAMES • FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER • May 14, 2008 DALLAS -- Chris Osgood looks at one long-haired teammate and sees a romance novel beefcake. In Jiri Hudler, Osgood sees talent that exceeds size. Hudler scored one of the biggest...
