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Sean Allen discusses the impact of injuries to the forward ranks down the stretch.

Today Craig Custance and Pierre LeBrun tackle the big Alexander Radulov news, plus more. Go! CUSTANCE: Happy Radulov Day, Pierre! It must feel like Christmas morning to hockey fans in Nashville, with Alexander Radulov informing us this morning on ...

Scott Burnside and Pierre LeBrun discuss the ramifications of the Rangers' win Monday night and what the Red Wings can do to snap out of their funk. Burnside: Well, my friend, it takes only one night in the NHL to put a completely different compl...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- You couldn't help but wonder as the final seconds ticked away Thursday night whether you were witnessing the final game for Nicklas Lidstrom. The 41-year-old Wings captain can certainly play for a few more years. He was dynamit...

Detroit Red Wings1. Will Franzen play? "The Mule" has had a huge playoff impact throughout the years, but an ankle injury has severely limited him in this series, and he didn't dress for Game 6. Johan Franzen took part in the morning skate Thursday ...

San Jose star winger Ryane Clowe has been ruled out and Detroit veteran forward Mike Modano finally will get back into the lineup for Game 6 Tuesday night.

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Johan Franzen didn't play a shift in the third period Sunday night. "He kind of tweaked his ankle," said Red Wings coach Mike Babcock after Detroit's 4-3 comeback win against San Jose on Sunday night. "I didn't want to play him...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The Twitter world lost one of the better NHL players on Saturday when Sharks winger Devin Setoguchi decided to pull the plug on his account. "I was just kind of fed up with it," Setoguchi said Saturday after practice. "Obviousl...

DETROIT -- Red Wings coach Mike Babcock announced after Friday's morning skate that there would be no lineup changes for Game 4. He thought long and hard about inserting veteran Mike Modano, but decided for the status quo from Game 3. It's not an ...

DETROIT -- The road ahead for the Red Wings doesn't get any harder than this. "We just have to get ready for that next game," Wings captain Nicklas Lidstrom said after his team fell to 3-0 in the series with the Sharks on Wednesday night. "We know...

DETROIT -- Brian Rafalski skipped Wednesday morning's optional skate, his third straight day off the ice, but said he would play in Game 3. "Oh yeah, 100 percent sure, no question," the veteran Red Wings blueliner said this morning. "Just a little...

DETROIT -- Betting money is on Kris Draper getting back into the Red Wings' lineup after missing the opening two games of the series, but coach Mike Babcock would not confirm that after practice Tuesday. "I haven't decided on any lineup changes," ...

Detroit coach Mike Babcock and San Jose bench boss Todd McLellan are calling each other's bluff heading into Wednesday's Game 3.

With the Red Wings in a 2-0 hole against the Sharks, coach Mike Babcock is left agonizing over game film and reconsidering forward line combinations to find a way to get Detroit to play better.

I'm off to Detroit in the morning to catch up with the Wings-Sharks series, and judging from what I watched on TV on Sunday, Detroit is going to need to tweak its game plan to avoid another short series against San Jose. Some observations: •...

This will be a hard-fought battle between two Cup contenders, but Pierre LeBrun believes Detroit will edge San Jose in the end.