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GRAND RAPIDS -- Former Red Wings defenseman Chris Chelios travels to hockey arenas on buses these days instead of a private jet.

With former Red Wings defenseman Chris Chelios slated to play against the Grand Rapids Griffins on Friday night, as a member of the AHL's Chicago Wolves, USA Today's Kevin Allen dropped a bit of a bombshell regarding the possibility of Chelios finding gainful NHL employment... November 5, USA Today : Just 26 months before his 50th birthday, Chelios ...

Amidst the Wings-related odds and ends this morning, including Red Wings VP Steve Yzerman's status as watching the Toronto Maple Leafs play the Tampa Bay Lightning last night and a quip about Jakub Kindl as the Wings' supposed future power play quarterback, this tidbit from the Detroit Free Press's George Sipple merits its own entry.

The Grand Rapids Press's Michael Zuidema posted a quartet of stories previewing the Grand Rapids Griffins' 2009-2010 campaign, and he duly notes that the combination of players graduating to the Red Wings and the usual amount of AHL roster turnover have created a team which has to build a new core if they are to build upon their relative playoff ...

The Detroit Red Wings sent one final group of players down to the Grand Rapids Griffins before departing for Sweden last night, and the only eyebrow-raiser involves the fact that Cory Emmerton remains on the Wings' roster because he's injured, as the Free Press's George Sipple notes: September 28, Detroit Free Press : The Wings assigned goaltender ...

Defenseman Jakub Kindl hopes to be heading in a positive direction this season. Two seasons ago, Kindl played his first full season with the Grand Rapids Griffins and had a minus-34 rating in 75 games with 17 points and 82 penalty minutes.

Here is the Red Wings' lineup for tonight's preseason game at Toronto : Ville Leino-Valtteri Filppula-Patrick Eaves Mattias Ritola-Justin Abdelkader-Jason Williams Johan Ryno-Evan McGrath-Kirk Maltby Brad May-Kris Newbury-Jan Mursak Defense: Niklas Kronwall-Brad Stuart Brett Lebda-Jakub Kindl Derek Meech-Andy Delmore Goalies Chris Osgood Jimmy ...

A few weeks ago, Sports.ru 's Vladim Kuznetsov asked me to answer a few Red Wings-related questions, and he kindly published my answers today.

Here is the Red Wings' lineup for tonight's preseason game in Philadelphia : Forwards Leino-Filppula-Bertuzzi Draper-Abdelkader-Eaves Ritola-Emmerton-Jason Williams Ryno-Newbury-Tardiff Defense Lidstrom-Rafalski Lebda-Ericsson Kolosov-Meech Chris Osgood will play the whole game in net, with Thomas McCollum serving as the back-up. Bertuzzi and Jason ...

Detroit -- The good news about Henrik Zetterberg's aching groin is that if it were a playoff game, the Red Wings were playing Saturday instead of the third exhibition, he would be in the lineup.

Here's the Red Wings' lineup for tonight's preseason game against the Buffalo Sabres : Goaltender Jimmy Howard will play the entire game, with Thomas McCollum serving as the back-up. Forwards: Johan Franzen-Pavel Datsyuk-Tomas Holmstrom Kris Draper-Justin Abdelkader-Patrick Eaves Tomas Tatar-Kris Newbury-Francis Pare John Vigilante-Francis ...

Justin Abdelkader continues to make a strong case for starting the regular season with the Detroit Red Wings.

The Red Wings have one of the best emergency responses in the NHL in being able to throw superstars Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg together when needed.

TRAVERSE CITY -- Come Thursday, the Red Wings plan to decide what to do with veteran goaltender Dan Cloutier.

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Great, The Detroit Red Wings, along with every other NHL club, opened their training camp this past weekend.

The Red Wings will hit the ice Sunday morning with 58 healthy players and one important player still unable to scrimmage.

The Hockey News's track record regarding rating, ranking, and making predictions concerning the Detroit Red Wings has been typically spotty this summer.

Red Wings prospects apparently are making the grade. The Hockey News Yearbook recently gave Detroit's up-and-comers a B- and wrote 'not only do the Red Wings scout well, they have a fabulous development system that gives every prospect a chance to reach his upside.' The magazine singled out Detroit's top 10 prospects in its future watch: 1. Jakub ...

Hockey's Future's Brendan Peleshok posted his rankings of the Red Wings' top 20 prospects as of, "Fall, 2009," and his first overall-ranked prospect merits a reminder--as in, "The Red Wings signed him to a 3-year contract extension whose last years are one-way" : August 22, Hockey's Future : 1. Jakub Kindl, D : Kindl maintains his top spot on the ...

When the Red Wings found their contractual hands tied by Jiri Hudler's decision to join Dynamo Moscow, and the NHL's subsequent protest of the KHL's restricted free agent-poaching, they got to work filling out the Grand Rapids Griffins' roster .