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No. 1 Star: Todd Bertuzzi, Detroit Red Wings
Todd Bertuzzi scored twice in this game — once on a breakaway in the first period and again in the overtime frame as the Red Wings’ edged the Chicago Blackhawks, 3-2. Bertuzzi’s breakaway goal came on an absolutely nutso backhand pass from Pavel [...]

Getting both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day off comes off rather particular considering both the NFL and NBA are going full bore with their schedule while the NHL takes two days off for the holidays. Fans might not like having the break away from games, but the players are more than [...]

Preview: Detroit Red Wings at Pittsburgh Penguins, 7 p.m. ET. No Sidney Crosby and Jordan Staal and Evgeni Malkin are game-time decisions for the Penguins. Potentially down their top three centers, Pittsburgh will try to score against Jimmy Howard who’s won nine of his last 10 starts. Tonight’s game in Pittsburgh starts a stretch [...]

The Detroit Red Wings will be a member of the Eastern Conference when the NHL realigns for the 2012-13 season, according to somebody who would be in a position to divulge such information: the owner of the team.
Via an interview with Red Wings owner Mike Ilitch in The Detroit News:
“The commissioner (Gary Bettman) [...]

As we saw last week, St. Louis Blues goaltender Jaroslav Halak changed the backplate of his mask this season to honor former Slovakian teammate Pavol Demitra, who was one of the 44 victims of the plane crash that killed the entire roster and coaching staff of the KHL’s Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team.

Jimmy Howard of the Detroit Red Wings [...]

Another division title for the Detroit Red Wings with a 47-25-10 (104 points) record, their 10th in the last 12 seasons. Another Western Conference Playoff victory in Round 1, the fifth year they’ve advanced.

But, it was also another semifinals loss to the San Jose Sharks, the second straight year they’ve been eliminated by the black and teal. [...]

Now this makes more sense. Instead of having 38-year-old Chris Osgood and his wonky groin backing up Jimmy Howard next season, the Detroit Red Wings will instead bid the veteran farewell on Tuesday as he retires from the NHL.
From Ansar Khan of MLive:
Osgood, 38, has accepted a position with the team and will be working [...]

The Detroit Red Wings have announced a press conference for 11:00am Wednesday at Joe Louis Arena where it is expected that defenseman Brian Rafalski will announce his retirement from the National Hockey League after eleven seasons.* This was Rafalski’s fourth season in Detroit after previously playing for the New Jersey Devils, and in Sweden and Finland. [...]

For as long as I can remember, games between the Detroit Red Wings and San Jose Sharks have always been exciting to watch.
I am sure my fellow Red Wings fans and the fans of the Sharks can all agree with me on this.
It all started in 1994 when the No. 1 Detroit Red Wings [...]

According to the venerable Elias Sports Bureau, the San Jose Sharks’ Western Conference semifinal victory over the Detroit Red Wings marked the first time in NHL history that six games in a playoff series were decided by one goal. They were one empty-netter in Game 6 away from it having been all seven. So you can, in fact, quantify that the Sharks…