Chris Osgood News

In Jonas Gustavsson, the Toronto Maple Leafs finally have a goaltender whom they trust will stop the puck.

Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg scored in the shootout to lift the Detroit Red Wings to a 2-1 win over San Jose, snapping the Sharks' six-game winning streak.

The Windsor Star's Dave Waddell spoke to Red Wings goaltender Chris Osgood and coach Mike Babcock about Detroit's bumpy start to the regular season and their slow turnaround during their West Coast swing, and Osgood made a very telling set of comments about the Wings' play: November 5, Windsor Star : "We've gotten back to the way we're capable of ...

The irony was hard to overlook: As Phil Kessel [ stats ] played his first game for Toronto and fired 10 shots on goal, the Bruins [ team stats ] offense looked more anemic than ever.

Red Wings GM Ken Holland spoke to SI's Michael Farber while "on the road" last weekend , and he addressed an all-too-familiar topic--the competency of Detroit's goaltenders, and, very specificially, Jimmy Howard's ability to play at the NHL level: November 4, Sports Illustrated : Since Dominik Hasek helped Detroit win the 2002 Stanley Cup, Holland ...

Henrik Zetterberg and Tomas Holmstrom scored in the first period, then Chris Osgood finished with his first shutout of the season to give the Detroit Red Wings a 2-0 win over the Boston Bruins.

Poor play cost Red Wings netminder Chris Osgood time on the ice last regular season.

Brad Stuart and Tomas Holmstrom scored 59 seconds apart in the second period, and Alberta native Chris Osgood made 20 saves to help the Detroit Red Wings beat the Calgary Flames 3-1 on Saturday night.

We're a few months away from February, but the Detroit Red Wings may be thinking it's Groundhog Day in October.

Detroit Red Wings' Chris Osgood, left, lets in a goal by Vancouver Canucks' Christian Ehrhoff, not pictured, as Mason Raymond watches during first period NHL hockey action in Vancouver on Tuesday Oct.

Adrian Aucoin #33 of the Phoenix Coyotes celebrates his game-winning goal against the Detroit Red Wings with team mate Peter Mueller #88 on October 22, 2009 at Jobing.com Arena in Glendale, Arizona.

The Red Wings learned the hard way that the NHL's standards of enforcement regarding crease crashing have lapsed significantly this season, losing against the Phoenix Coyotes in no small part thanks to Radim Vrbata essentially shoving Chris Osgood into the net on the game-tying goal .

Red Wings coach Mike Babcock admitted to the Detroit News's Chris McCosky that his team doesn't exactly scare their opposition into making mistakes thanks to their 3-3-1-and-1 record, but Babcock doesn't exactly subscribe to the theory that the Wings scare anyone, period: October 24, Detroit News : "I don't think it's big at all right now," he said ...

The Colorado Avalanche and the Detroit Red Wings are two of the NHL's biggest surprises, but for different reasons.

BROOMFIELD, Colo. - The Red Wings went through a short, upbeat practice today and afterward emphasized getting back to playing their style of hockey, and doing so for a full game.

Adrian Aucoin scored at 1:57 of overtime to give the Phoenix Coyotes a 3-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday night.

Despite his less-than-inspiring statistical performance , Red Wings goaltender Chris Osgood has played a starring role in each of Detroit's three victories, and kept them within at least striking distance of the Colorado Avalanche, but the out-of-town media's doing its same-old same-old act in suggesting that Osgood's performance isn't up to snuff.

So this much we know. One evening, in the not-too-distant future, fans will look to the rafters at Joe Louis Arenaa 'or wherever the Red Wings will be playing by thena 'and see a large red "jersey" with a white No.

This milestone-in-the-making, as noted by the Globe and Mail's Eric Duhatschek, might surprise you: October 18, Globe and Mail : 8 : Regular-season wins needed by Chris Osgood, the Detroit Red Wings' much-maligned goaltender, to become just the 10th netminder in NHL history to reach the 400-victory plateau.

The Detroit Red Wings played superbly for two periods against the Colorado Avalanche, holding the Avs to 13 shots while building a 2-0 lead...And then the Wings went on a four-minute power play three minutes into the third period, and the bottom fell out in terms of decent work habits and attention to detail.