According to reports from the players and The Word on Woodward, the Red Wings’ players have been training and skating at the BELFOR Training Center adjacent to Little Caesars Arena on an informal basis for over a month now. Today, the Free Press’s Helene St. James reported that the Wings took things onto the big ice next door:
There’s on-ice activity at Little Caesars Arena for the first time in nearly nine months.
The facility has largely stood empty since the NHL and NBA shut down in mid-March because of COVID-19, but with an NHL season on the horizon — maybe — ice was put in at the practice rink over the weekend.
Detroit Red Wings players who are in the area — a group that includes Dylan Larkin and Anthony Mantha — took to the ice there Monday for the first time since March 11. The next day, the NHL paused the 2019-20 season, and in May announced the remaining roughly three weeks would not be played.
