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Leafs transform into giant slayers Toronto Maple Leafs forward Wayne Primeau, centre, celebrates his goal against the Detroit Red Wings during first period NHL action on Saturday, Nov.

Detroit -- Who knew that his 100th career goal would be so elusive? Danny Cleary is off to his slowest start since joining the Red Wings in 2005-06. He has one goal in 13 games and is a minus-6. He got his 99th career goal in the second game of the season in Sweden and has been scoreless with three assists since.

Read up on the latest tidbits and trends as Hockey Night in Canada's play-by-play voice Jim Hughson takes you behind the scenes and into the game.

As MLive.com's own Ansar Khan first reported , Red Wings defenseman Andreas Lilja has finally received some relief in his battle with persistent post-concussive headaches per a chiropractor he visited while the Red Wings visited Vancouver, and the Detroit News's Chris McCosky reports that Brad May was the one who referred Lilja to Burnaby, BC-based ...

The Detroit Red Wings have dry-erase boards in the dressing room, nestled between the showers and training room, that show how they stack up.

CALGARY, Alberta -- Kris Draper smiled and paused, looking over at fellow forward Pavel Datsyuk as he stretched on the floor of the visitor's locker room in the Saddledome.

Detroit Red Wings' Henrik Zetterberg, top, checks Boston's Michael Ryder to the ice.

As the Red Wings prepare for a surprisingly busy post-West Coast swing schedule, the injury-depleted Wings have welcomed a familiar scorer back into the lineup in Pavel Datsyuk, who has returned to posting multiple points per game.

Jamie Samuelsen, the sports director for the "Deminski & Doyle" morning show on WCSX-FM , blogs for freep.com. His opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Detroit Free Press nor its writers.

Detroit's Chris Osgood makes a save against Calgary on Saturday night. DETROIT -- The season-long frustration that has surrounded the Detroit Red Wings was replaced with a familiar feeling of confidence during the second intermission of Saturday's game in Calgary.

The Vancouver Canucks' defense did a fine job of steering any Red Wings forward who attempted to crowd Roberto Luongo into said goaltender, so it's not surprising that the Canucks have announced that Luongo will miss the Canucks' next game, with a, um..."Injury." The only question seems to involve which Red Wing can be needled for whatever ails the ...

The Detroit Red Wings managed to salvage a point out of yet another dreadful defensive performance in a 6-5 shootout loss to the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday, rallying from 4-1 and 5-2 deficits via a 45-shot effort.

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.

Henrik Zetterberg, Dan Cleary, and Todd Bertuzzi battled groin injuries of varying severity during the Red Wings' exhibition season, and while Zetterberg has slowly regained his form, the Detroit News's Chris McCosky noted that Cleary has yet to exhibit the kind of jump in his stride that he usually relies upon: October 26, Detroit News : Cleary ...

Whatever the welcome, it won't be anything Todd Bertuzzi hasn't heard before. He's familiar with being cast as the hero and the villian.

The Detroit Red Wings lost another forward for an extended period, with center Valtteri Filppula sidelined six to eight weeks because of a broken right wrist suffered in Thursday's 6-5 shootout loss at Edmonton .

The Oakland Press's Pat Caputo joins the cavalcade of media members weighing in on the Detroit Red Wings' 3-4-1-and-1 start, and while his final conclusion is bottom-line related--the Wings obviously need to start winning, and winning on a very regular basis, if they plan on regaining any semblance of their league-dominating form, especially given ...

Patrick O'Sullivan beat Jimmy Howard with a wrist shot in the third round of a shootout, and Nikolai Khabibulin stopped Henrik Zetterberg on Detroit's final attempt to give the Edmonton Oilers a 6-5 victory Thursday night.

A surprising development from Monday's Red Wings practice: the Free Press's Helene St.

Former Red Wings forward Mikael Samuelsson has posted 11 points in his first 12 games as a Vancouver Canuck after leaving Detroit for a bigger paycheck and promises of a near-guaranteed spot alongside Daniel and Henrik Sedin, but the Vancouver Province's Ed Willes insists that the Red Wings have been forced to jettison an Edmonton Oilers ...