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Red Wings morning news: proclamations, questions, Nyquist, Alfredsson and Mike Modano’s beer

by George Malik on 09/12/13 at 07:24 AM ET
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The Red Wings officially kick off training camp with three practices and a scrimmage today in Traverse City, and the Left Wing Lock's Sarah Lindenau's posted a link to the scrimmage's box score (it looks like all of the Wings' scrimmages and the Red vs. White game will be available on Pointstreak).

This morning, the Free Press's Helene St. James ponders several pertinent questions regarding the state of the Wings as training camp opens...

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Clearygate continues

by George Malik on 09/12/13 at 07:04 AM ET
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Ugh.

So...silly...

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Former Wing Damien Brunner turns down Swiss serenade

by George Malik on 09/12/13 at 06:29 AM ET
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Via RedWingsFeed, the Neue Luzerner Zeitung's Nicola Berger posited the following Tweet earlier this morning...

And he penned an article stating that Brunner turned down an invitation from EV Zug to play for the Swiss NLA team until late September as he's, well, negotiating with an NHL team.

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Red Wings early overnight report: looking back at the prospect tourney, preparing for the main camp

by George Malik on 09/11/13 at 10:16 PM ET
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I did my best to sumarize a day-and-a-half's worth of Red Wings-related stories in one post, and what follows are mostly "tailings," but they're intriguing nonetheless.

Before we begin the little round-up, however, two sets of comments from the previous post stood out, and bear repeating. While speaking with MLive's Ansar Khan, Wings coach Mike Babcock summarized his mindset going into training camp with this take on what the Wings prospects' championship run showed him about the job security his present players can boast of having, as well as what training camp and the exhibition season are all about:

“In the nine years I’ve been here that was the best rookie (class) we’ve had by far,'' Babcock said. “We have 16 forwards in camp that plan on playing in the NHL, that’s too many. So the competition from within is as high a level as we’ve ever had it, which is a positive thing.''

More than 60 players will start practices and intrasquad scrimmages Thursday morning at Centre I.C.E. The preseason opener is Monday at Pittsburgh. They will break camp the next day.

As always, Babcock wants to use camp to establish work ethic, rebuild structure and concentrate on the details of the game.

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Red Wings catchy-uppy post: all the gnus that’s fit to post, including Alfredsson, Babs, KH, etc.

by George Malik on 09/11/13 at 07:06 PM ET
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I've been pretty close to comatose for the past two days, so Paul's been doing his best to keep up with the lunacy that surrounds Daniel Cleary's fate and to offer the most pertinent Red Wings-related stories. Here's my attempt to catch up with the past 30-some hours' worth of stuff, on a source-by-source basis:

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So Daniel Cleary’s still a Flyer? Erm…

by George Malik on 09/11/13 at 06:44 PM ET
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Take this for what you will:

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Here are the Red Wings’ training camp teams

by George Malik on 09/11/13 at 04:02 PM ET
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Updated with the team's official release: Per the Left Wing Lock's Sarah Lindenau, here are the Red Wings' training camp "teams":

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Report- Cleary Talked With Babcock And Holland Today

by Paul on 09/11/13 at 03:15 PM ET
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I've been updating the recent Cleary news in the KKHockey section, but...

 

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Assistant Coach Renney Wants A Better Power Play

by Paul on 09/11/13 at 02:05 PM ET
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from Bill Roose of the Wings' website,

The Red Wings had holes to fill in their power play last season. Coming off a year when the special teams unit finished in the bottom third in the league, some of the responsibility to turn things around fell upon assistant coach Tom Renney.

Detroit ended up in the middle of the pack last season. The power play was 18.4 percent, scored 34 goals on 185 chances. Part of the problem, Renney acknowledges, was a lack of shots on goal with the man-advantage.

“There are guys that have good touches and get good looks that I'd like to see shoot more, no question about that,” Renney said. “There was an improvement from the previous year, I think we were 22 to 15 or something like that and you want to see marked improvement again this year. What it comes down to is a successful power play to me is all about retrievals and there's no retrievals if you're not shooting. So the bottom line is we need shots, we need net-presence, we got to get the puck back.”

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TSN Previews The Wings

by Paul on 09/11/13 at 11:40 AM ET
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from TSN,

After years of lobbying, realignment has allowed the Red Wings to finally return eastward for the first time since 1981.

Gone are Detroit’s frequent trips to the West Coast and the club should benefit from limited trips outside their time zone. The Red Wings lose long-standing division rivalries with Chicago and St. Louis but will settle easily for Original Six rivals Toronto and Montreal.

Detroit was frequently a challenger for the Western Conference crown alongside strong teams like the Blackhawks and Canucks and should find themselves in a comparable spot in the East alongside elite clubs like the Bruins and Penguins.

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