Duck Huntin’ – Playoff Edition: Detroit Red Wings: 3 – Anaheim Ducks: 2
What a game. Monday night at Joe Louis Arena saw one of the best played games of the playoffs thus far, and Detroit was able to take home the win. It took them four periods and an all-rookie line to end…Read More
Stanley Cup Playoffs 2013: Expect Changes To Wings’ Game 2 Lineup
After last night’s subpar performance in Anaheim Mike Babcock summed up my sentiments exactly when he stated that Detroit “looked exactly like we did tonight in the first 20 or 25 games of the season.” …Read More
The Detroit Red Wings Need Todd Bertuzzi on the Second Line
Many Red Wing fans have been clamouring for Gustav Nyquist or Tomas Tatar to be brought up to the second line, to replace Todd Bertuzzi. Now, I am not here to say Todd Bertuzzi is a top 6 winger; because…Read More
Game Recap: Detroit Red Wings 5 – Minnesota Wild 3
For the first three games of the 2013 season, a Detroit Red Wings power play goal was something like Bigfoot: often mentioned but never actually seen. With the Minnesota Wild visiting on Friday night,…Read More
Detroit Red Wings Injury Report
Before the Detroit Red Wings game at St. Louis Blues began yesterday it was reported that Todd Bertuzzi has mono. He should be out for several weeks while recovering and was placed on short term…Read More
The Leino Scale
As we all know, Jusy 1st is when Unrestricted Free Agents (UFAs) can sign with any team. This basically…Read More
Goal Analysis: Gustav Nyquist’s First NHL Goal
All four of my readers and twitter followers know that I am the biggest Gustav Nyquist supporter in Red…Read More
Wings Fans: What’s Going On, And Should We Be Worried?
The Red Wings recent struggles are quite obvious. In their last four games, the Wings have lost 3 out…Read More
Wings Reborn
This match against Boston was the best game I’ve seen all season. The tilt was dripping with…Read More
Howard, Filppula Dazzle Against Canucks
Certainly the story of the first 20 minutes of tonight’s game against the defending Western Conference…Read More
Does Fitness Matter?
Last June I wrote a piece I made a post over at The Sin Bin Chronicles calling on the readers to be the…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
Halfway Point Review
This is my first post as the lead writer for OctopusThrower. I previously was the lead writer for Dont…Read More
Wings Down Avalanche 3-1
First off, sorry for the lateness on this update. Decided to sleep in this Sunday as I, for the first…Read More
Todd Bertuzzi back…Red Wing lifer?
Good news Red Wing fans…Big Bert is back for at least 2 years. Bertuzzi inked a 2 year deal worth…Read More
Roster round up: Big Bert
I have never been a huge Todd Bertuzzi fan. He was plagued with back spasms when he played for the Florida…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…Read More
History repeats itself, Wings can’t make comeback
There is a theory that history repeats itself, and last night that proved true for all Red Wings and…Read More















