Avalanche 2021-22 Season Preview
After a breakneck pace to an offseason that included Seattle’s Expansion Draft, the 2021 Entry Draft, and the opening of free agency in the span of a week, the 2021-22…
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THW’s Ultimate Mock Expansion Draft: Meet Our Seattle Kraken
Later this month, the Seattle Kraken will select their inaugural roster as part of the 2021 NHL Expansion Draft. Those selections will join recent signing Luke Henman to form the…
Red Wings 2020-21 Player Evaluations
The job of every general manager, head coach, scout and many others within an NHL organization is to evaluate players. These evaluations can be the difference between a player starting…
Familiar Issues Doom Coyotes, Lead to Tocchet’s Dismissal
The Arizona Coyotes ended the 2020-21 regular season on a high note, with two victories over the San Jose Sharks on Friday and Saturday at the SAP Center, but, unfortunately…
Calgary Flames: 10 Takeaways After 10 Games
The Calgary Flames have begun their season in the Scotiabank North Division, finishing 4-5-1 in their first 10 games. They have games in hand on the Edmonton Oilers and Vancouver…
Red Wings & Blackhawks Reignite Their Rivalry in 2020-21
The rivalry between Chicago and Detroit is one that appears in every major sport. The Lions don’t like the Bears. The Bulls and the Pistons have had some infamous playoff…
Red Wings’ 2010-15 Drafts Were a Mixed Bag of Results
Drafting is an imperfect science. There are rules you can identify and behaviors you can pinpoint in order to get a good idea of what a player might become, but…
Red Wings’ Biggest Draft Misses of the 2000s
The Detroit Red Wings have built up a reputation around the league as an organization that excels at finding talent up and down the draft. The likes of Nicklas Lidstrom,…
Senators Could Benefit From a Vacant Captaincy in 2020-21
For the first time in franchise history, the Ottawa Senators did not name a captain for the 2018-19 season. More than 800 days and 135 games later, they still haven’t…
The Grind Line: Red Wings 2020-21 Wish-List
What’s The Grind Line? Apart from the once-famous line of Kris Draper, Kirk Maltby, and either Joe Kocur or Darren McCarty, The Grind Line is also The Hockey Writers’ weekly…
Red Wings’ Best of All-Time: Where Did They Come From?
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been putting together my projections for 2022 Winter Olympic rosters – if the NHL allows its players to participate in the tournament. Sometime during…
Red Wings 7-Round Mock Draft
Now that it’s June, the Detroit Red Wings will finally get to find out where they’ll pick in the 2020 NHL Draft. The draft itself won’t take place until the…