Month: December 2025

Red Wings-Canucks Tweetcap: Gibson’s shutout powers Wings to 4-0 win over Vancouver

The Detroit Red Wings emerged from an 0-3-and-1 slide via Saturday’s 4-3 victory over the Seattle Kraken, and Detroit headed into Western Canada to begin a stretch of 3 games in 4 nights against Vancouver (Monday), Calgary (Wednesday) and Edmonton (Thursday).

On Monday night, the Red Wings won what I can only describe as a weird one. Vancouver out-shot Detroit 36-20, and had a fair amount of Grade-A scoring chances, but John Gibson’s sight lines were clear, so he pitched his first shutout as a Red Wing…

And James van Riemsdyk (at 14:14 of the 1st) and Andrew Copp (at 15:15 of the 1st) pushed the Wings out to a 2-0 lead, which is pretty much all they needed en route to a 4-0 victory over Vancouver.

Nate Danielson would score his second goal on a gorgeous little give and go between Kasper and Sandin Pellikka (who also set up Copp’s goal), and Dylan Larkin would get his 16th via an empty-netter…

But the Wings really owed Gibson, because as great as the Wings played above the red line, they were shaky at times in front of their own goaltender against a struggling Canucks team, and thankfully, Gibson has begun to deliver.

All in all, the Red Wings are now 2-0-and-1 going into games 4, 5 and 6 of their 6-game road trip, about to embark on a set of 3 games to be played over the course of 4 nights, so they needed these points, and the “how” is a little less important than the “how many.”

2. Necessary. Thank you, John.

PREGAME: John Gibson and Kevin Lankinen led their respective teams out onto the ice at Rogers Place (and Cam Talbot was last in the warmup line)…

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Quick health update

Hi, everybody. Here’s an update on the state of my health:

I’m still doing the “Tweetcaps” so that you have some sort of content and that I don’t feel completely useless, but my fatigue from whatever I’m suffering from has not gone away, and I tend to need a day to recover before I’m able to work on the next game.

I did see my doctor this past Monday–I had a physical this week–and I’ll be having a significant number of labs taken via a blood draw this upcoming Monday. I hope that we’ll find an answer as to what’s going on from the blood tests.

I’m incredibly, incredibly frustrated with my continued illness. I want to come back every morning, and I keep hoping when I go to bed that I’ll feel good enough to sit up and work the next day, but that has yet to happen, and it’s driving me nuts. I’m doing my best to get back, but my body isn’t responding, and it’s tremendously disappointing. I can take care of Aunt Annie, but that’s about it. My own self-care has really suffered over the past couple of months, and it sucks.

I still want to come back and work the blog as I have previously been able to work, but my body is not cooperating.

I love this job and I do not plan on giving it up, but my hiatus continues for the present moment. I just want to get back to work, and I’m doing everything I can to get healthy again.

Raymond + ASP + Danielson + a 1st round pick for Quinn Hughes? No, thank you.

As the hype and buzz regarding the Red Wings pursuing Vancouver Canucks captain Quinn Hughes percolates around the NHL, the Vancouver Province’s Ben Kuzma provides a reality check in terms of what the Canucks’ asking price might include:

He doesn’t have a no-trade clause, so the successful bidder needs assurance he’s not just a one-year lease before hitting free agency. That’s where ties will play a prominent role.

There are his formative years in Michigan with the U.S. National Team Development Program and the NCAA Wolverines. It’s also where he has a home. And at age 18, Hughes was the youngest player in the 2018 world hockey championship and looked like a veteran as the U.S. claimed bronze.

Long-serving Detroit Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin was his world championship teammate and roommate. They’ve also trained together and formed a lasting and respectful bond. And Hughes has long admired Detroit winger Patrick Kane.

The Canucks could push for first-line right-winger Lucas Raymond, 23, second-pairing rookie defenceman Axel Sandin-Pellikka, 20, first year third-line centre Nate Danielson, 21, plus a 2026 first-round draft pick. Raymond, Sandin-Pellikka and Danielson are first-round picks.

Raymond had 80 points (27-53) last season, and would be a vital addition if Kiefer Sherwood, and possibly Conor Garland, are traded. Sandin-Pellikka projects as a power play quarterback, and Danielson needs to develop a complete game at the NHL level.

Continued; I’m fairly certain that Canucks GM Jim Rutherford WOULD ask for either one of Lucas Raymond or Moritz Seider, a top prospect like ASP or Danielson, and a 1st round pick as compensation for Hughes…

And that’s why this is not going to happen.

Red Wings-Bruins Tweetcap, rematch version: The squeaky win gives the Wings some ‘grease’

The Detroit Red Wings attempted to snap an 0-3-and-1 streak against the same Boston Bruins team that delivered a 3-2 shootout loss to the Wings on Saturday evening, all ahead of a 6-game road trip that will test the team’s resolve.

On Tuesday nigh at Little Caesars Arena, the Red Wings prevailed in a 5-4 decision over the Boston Bruins, nearly blowing 3-0 and 5-2 leads in the process…

But John Gibson, 2 bad 5-hole goals included, stopped 31 of 35 shots, Detroit was able to yank Jeremy Swayman, who gave up 5 on 23, and James van Riemsdyk, Moritz Seider, Alex DeBrincat, Ben Chiarot and Lucas Raymond all scored…

Seider had a goal and two assists, Kane had 2 assists, DeBrincat and Raymond both had a goal and an assist, Danielson of all people led the Wings with 5 shots, Bernard-Docker had 6 hits, and there was this, too:

PREGAME: John Gibson and Jeremy Swayman led their respective teams out onto the ice…

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