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Detroit Red Wings Writers Wanted!

Hey Detroit Red Wings fans – are you interested in writing about your favorite hockey team?  Do you want your own personal soap box to voice off on all things Red Wings?  Then Fansided Sports Network…Read More

Eaves Injury Proves We’re All On Same Team

In the same week that we all welcomed back NHL’s poster child Sidney Crosby, we saw another lesser-known player suffer a major injury.  The only similarity was how the hockey world reacted:  With…Read More

Game Preview: Detroit at St Louis

I posed the question in a previous article whether it was possible for the Detroit Red Wings to win in November.  After a four game winning streak and outscoring their opponents 18-4, the Wings have…Read More

Will Wings Win in November?

  Detroit’s 5-0 shellacking of the Anaheim Ducks last Saturday was a good way to break a six game losing streak. The scoring lines were on fire, the defense was nearly perfect and Jimmy Howard continued…Read More

Top Three Worst Seasons in Red Wings History

I amazed that more people don’t know the meaning of the word Schadenfreude.  It’s such a useful remark that accurately describes a natural human response after life becomes tragic.  When everything…Read More

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“Know Your Enemy”: Oilers

People that earn their keep predicting the future, fortune tellers and psychics and the like, are either…Read More

Writers Wanted: Join The Octopus Thrower Staff

Do you have an opinion? On what you may be asking. Well on the Red Wings? On Hockey? Do you want to…Read More

Toughest Goalie in The League!

I don’t care what anybody says. Jimmy Howard may not be the Toughest goalie in the league to…Read More

NHL Awards looking to be pretty Swede for Detroit

Known to many as “Norris Nick” the Red Wings captain Nicklas Lidstrom has a chance to win his seventh…Read More

Looking Ahead to Round 2….

  So, The Red Wings have completed their 4 game sweep of the Phoenix Jets. Hell yeah! But now is not…Read More

A Call to Arms: Hockeytown Defends Octopus, Tradition

Yesterday Red Wings head coach Mike Babcock announced that in fact star forward Henrik Zetterberg will…Read More

Detroit – from the other side

For those that do not know I am a huge hockey fan. I love the sport of the game itself. So I decided…Read More

Red Wings end Maple Leaf Win Streak, and their Own Losing Streak

The Detroit Red Wings defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs in a 4-2 win at Joe Louis Arena Saturday night.…Read More

Vancouver @ Detroit

Tonight we have a huge Western Conference matchup when the Vancouver Canucks challenge the Detroit Red…Read More

Red Wings End Capitals Streak at Nine

In one of the best matchups of the season, The Red Wings stop the Washington Capitals from getting…Read More

5-4 OT Loss? What the F@#$?!!

Really!? 4-1 going into the 3rd, turns into a 5-4 Shootout loss?! What the F@%#$?!! Its like the entire…Read More

Red Wings VS. Phoenix Preview

Okay so here we are, at the end of our 5 game road trip. We are 2-1-1 on the trip going to jobing.com…Read More

Red Wings VS. Lightning

The Red Wings and Lightning Face Off at 730 tonight at the St. Pete Times forum in what could be one…Read More

Franzen Scores 5 Friggin’ Goals!

I think the title says it all. What else needs to be said? The Mule has recorded his first regular…Read More

Wing’s Update(Letter to Kee)

So this is going to be a different kind of post than I normally write. Let me give you the back story.…Read More