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helm won't skate until thursday at the earliest http://www.mlive.com/redwings/team/1358184597-876-239/red-wings-mikael-samuelsson-groin.html

really and how do you know this?

http://www.freep.com/article/20130113/SPORTS05/130113022/ and the logjam at the forward position gets even bigger

the thing that worries me is that he has a good camp and then takes a roster spot away from one of younger guys. holland needs to realize that this team is in rebuilding mode now. you don't bring in 40 year old veterans on a rebuilding team when you already have several of them on your roster. Even if knuble isn't on the starting roster, chances are he gets the first call up in case of an injury and robs nyquist or tatar of a call up

huh? i'm not whining about it. I'm just pointing out that the wings have a glut of forwards and only so many roster spots. it's a good thing to have actually

actually the wings did confirm that they had interest in boumeester during the summer http://www.mlive.com/redwings/index.ssf/2012/08/red_wings_talking_to_calgary_f.html

you can try these free sites on the days that the wings have games. no guarantees that they will be on there though http://www.thefirstrow.eu/ http://www.vipbox.tv/ http://atdhe.eu/ if drumnj, the guy that runs redwingslive.net, can find somebody that has directv, you will be to watch all the games over there as well. and of course, you can always sign up for a subscription for gamecenter live at nhl.com. it might even be free for this season.

red wings don't control that. that is up to the league

if they decertified, nobody would be playing any nhl hockey for the foreseable future the only notable dman i see the wings getting in a trade would be boumeester and even then i think it's a stretch. i don't think there's any chance the wings get yandle since they will want several young forwards in any trade for him,something that the wings can't really afford to give up imo. an interesting player to look at for this season would be visnovsky. he would probably be had for dirt cheap from the islanders if the wings could get him to come back over to north america.

this is probably a good thing for gomez as well. gives him a chance to start over on a new team to try to work his way back up without the $7.3 mil cap hit tagging along

i think that's part of the reason why he doesn't want it

Helm tweaked his back http://www.freep.com/article/20130113/SPORTS05/130113016/red-wings-training-camp

i don't think he is. I think it would have been a no brainier for datsyuk to be named captain if he wanted it

Zetterberg will be officially named captain on Tuesday http://www.freep.com/article/20130113/SPORTS05/130113017/1053/sports05?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FreepDetroitRedWings+%28freep.com+|+Detroit+Red+Wings%29

no official nhl preseason games since camp is only going to be 6 days long

another minute of commercials. yay!

http://www.mlive.com/redwings/index.ssf/2013/01/red_wings_training_camp_highli.html So it looks like the only thing the wings are doing to give back to the fans is waving processing fees for the first 35 hours. yippee would have been nice if they did something along the lines of what the sens are doing

CBC just released their HNIC schedule. looks like detroit will be on it 3 times http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockeynightincanada/broadcast/

take that up with ansar kahn. he's the one who wrote it, not me

nvm. bob mackenzie with the buzzkill as always lol

there are 11 games slated to be on nbc and chances are most if not all of those will be nbc exclusive

Josh Rimer ‏@JoshRimerHockey In two hours we'll see trades and signings and I'm hearing we're in for a flurry of activity!!

holland's love affair with old washed up veterans gets frustrating sometimes

sorry drum, don't have directv anymore or i would give you a hand.