Tomas Holmstrom News

The Detroit Red Wings held an autograph session at the Hockey Hall of Fame as part of the HHOF's "Induction Showcase" weekend on Friday, and NHL.com's John McGourty reports that the Wings made positive impressions upon their fans, including 14-year-old Sebastien Persson and his 12-year-old brother, Jonathan, two Swedish Wings fans: November 7, ...

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.

Tomas Holmstrom helped Sweden win gold in hockey at the 2006 Olympics. The Detroit Red Wings forward says that does not guarantee he'll get a shot to help his country repeat.

Red Wings GM Ken Holland spoke to USA Today's Kevin Allen about Tomas Holmstrom's resurgent play on Wednesday afternoon, suggesting that the eight-goal-scorer has made only one "tweak" to a game hampered by knee injuries and sports hernias over the past two seasons: November 4, USA Today : "He's healthy and that's the big thing," Detroit general ...

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.

Chris Osgood stopped all 29 shots he faced to post his first shutout of the season and lead Detroit over Boston, 2-0, at Joe Louis Arena.

Brad May #20 of the Detroit Red Wings skates towards a loose puck during a NHL pre-season game against the Toronto Maple Leafs at Joe Louis Arena on September 25, 2009 in Detroit, Michigan.

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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.

Detroit's Tomas Holmstrom, left, celebrates his goal against Calgary with teammate Todd Bertuzzi.

I don't remember an awful lot from my first year statistics class, but the professor managed to burn one truism into my head: sample size matters.

As far as I can tell, " Boules " is the Swedish/French version of Bocce, a.k.a. lawn bowling, a.k.a. curling without ice, and it's a relatively popular game in southern Sweden, which Red Wings defenseman Andreas Lilja and former Wing and current Vancouver Canucks forward Mikael Samuelsson .

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 ...

Jason Williams scored a power-play goal with 5:03 left in a wild third period, leading the Detroit Red Wings to a 5-4 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday night.

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 VP Ken Holland appeared on Toronto's The Fan 590 on Monday night, speaking to Bob McCown and Stephen Brunt about Team Canada's 2010 Olympic team for the vast majority of his 15:11 interview, but he starts the interview by discussing the Red Wings' struggles in a pre-Olympic light, pondering how much ice time he wants to give his players ...

The Globe and Mail's Eric Duthatschek tends to have the market cornered regarding leaps in logic that end up making quite a bit of sense, and his suggestion regarding the pressure Red Wings coach Mike Babcock faces as Team Canada's 2010 Olympic hockey coach will do battle against the Olympic host-city's Canucks is nothing short of supremely astute: ...

AP Detroit Red Wings center Kris Draper, second from left, celebrates his goal with teammates, from left, 1 hr 4 mins ago DENVER Craig Anderson made a season-high 48 saves, Chris Stewart and T.J. Galiardi each had a goal and an assist, and the Colorado Avalanche continued their surprising start with a 3-1 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on ...

Another night, another blown lead for the Red Wings. Tomas Holmstrom and Brett Lebda scored to give Detroit a 2-1 lead, and then the wheels slowly fell off late.

DetroitRedWings.com's Christy Hammond posted four off-day notes in a Friday digest, discussing Pavel Datsyuk's upper-body injury and three other Red Wings-related storylines.