Week In Review: Feb 5 – Feb 11
I’m happy this week in Red Wings hockey is over. I know four out of six points is good, but the way the Wings played left something to be desired. This was to be expected, considering the Wings…Read More
Week In Review: Jan 22-28
Welcome to my new feature that I just now decided I’m going to do: A recap of every week! I will do my best to post every Sunday for you to read and enjoy. Without further ado, let’s get…Read More
Detroit Red Wings: If the NHL were a Batman Comic, Red Wings Would Be Two-Face
Photo courtesy of yahoo.com I came up with the headline as I was discussing hockey with a few friends tonight. My circle of friends is a pretty broad one when it comes to favorite NHL teams. I…Read More
Detroit Red Wings Start Road Trip With a Win in Edmonton, Face Vancouver Canucks Wednesday Night
Photo courtesy of thehockeynews.com The Detroit Red Wings have finally, after two mediocre years, have brought back the fear in opposing teams when entering the Joe Louis Arena posting a 13-2-1 record…Read More
Wings Win With Style
I’ve seen enough exhibition games over the years to know that the pre-season, means next to nothing. If you don’t believe me, then this fact should persuade you: Keith Primeau is among the…Read More
Two Way Nyquist The One To Watch
Call it premature if you like, because it probably is, but seeing that Gustav Nyquist is manning the…Read More
Is It October Yet?
They say defense wins championships. They say your last line of defense is your goaltender. So I guess…Read More
10 Things a Red Wings Fan Will Never Say
1. When will these people stop throwing octopus on the ice? 2. Joe Thornton has great leadership skills…Read More
Red Wings return to Detroit
So here we are. It’s the morning after and lucky for all of us in Hockeytown it just happens to be…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
Post Game Player Reactions From Wings 3-2 Victory Over Coyotes
Octopus Thrower brings you the post-game reactions of Nicklas Lidstrom, Henrik Zetterberg and Coach Babcock following Detroit’s 3-2 overtime win Monday night.
Wings Top Pesky Coyotes In Overtime
For the second time in three games this season the Red Wings needed extra time to down the Coyotes. The scoring was started off early as red hot forward Dan Cleary netted a goal for the Wings who jumped…Read More
2010 Playoffs: 5 things that sucked
I’m a little behind in reading all of the links I’ve added to my Instapaper account so I spent the last few days getting caught up. Two of my saved entries was blog posts by PuckDaddy about…Read More
Roster round up: Lidstrom’s fate
The first guy I want to talk about is Nicklas Lidstrom. The Red Wings blogs, Twitter feeds, forums, news outlets, and every other related communications channel has one big question… Is Nick retiring? Well,…Read More
Roster round up: Who should stay? Who should go?
There are a few other blogs (NOHS, WIIM, WOAW) that are analyzing player performance and whether or now they met expectations. These are all good reads and I encourage you to read them. I particularly…Read More
Why the Wings make the world a better place
The Detroit Red Wings have not only been successful as an organization making it to the Stanley Cup Finals 5 times (winning 4) in the past 13 years, but the hockey minds that have helped the Red Wing organization…Read More










