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My name is George Malik, and I'm the Malik Report's editor/blogger/poster. I have been blogging about the Red Wings since 2006, and have worked with MLive and Kukla's Korner. Thank you for reading!

Aaron Ward: Green out vs. Hurricanes

Not good news from NHL insider Aaron Ward:

Update: MLive’s Ansar Khan confirms:

 

Red Wings-Hurricanes No Morning Skate Tweets and articles

The Detroit Red Wings host the Carolina Hurricanes this evening (7:00 PM EST on FSD/FS Carolinas/97.1 FM) at Little Caesars Arena, and tonight is “Hockey Is For Everyone” night at LCA:

The Red Wings hope to put a dent in the Hurricanes’ playoff hopes this evening, while Carolina hopes to snap an 0-3-and-1 streak minus Jordan Staal.

Detroit didn’t hold a morning skate on Saturday, choosing to rest up due to their 2-games-in-2-nights schedule (and the Wings are wrapping up a set of 10 games played over the course of 18 nights.

EDIT/UPDATE: never mind, it looks like the Wings “took an optional”…

Carolina didn’t hold a morning skate either, as they lost 6-1 to Pittsburgh on Friday and flew to Detroit late on Friday night:

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Prospect round-up: Walleye win 9th straight; Fulcher wins 28th game; Rasmussen 1+1

In the ECHL, the Toledo Walleye received goals from Tyler Barnes, Dylan Sadowy and Patrick McCarron and 23 stops on 24 shots from Pat Nagle as the Walleye defeated the Atlanta Gladiators 3-1.

The win was the Walleye’s 9th straight victory, as the Walleye’s website’s recap notes:

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Red Wings-Hurricanes set-up: Cranky Canes heading to Detroit with playoffs on their mind

The Detroit Red Wings hope to snap a 3-game losing streak as they host the Carolina Hurricanes this evening (7:00 PM EST on FSD/FS Carolinas/97.1 FM).

It is assumed that the Wings will have Mike Green back in the lineup as the Wings open a set of back-to-back games, with the Wings heading to New York to play the Rangers on Sunday.

Our friends from Carolina are going to be in a bit of a foul mood, and fresh off a Friday night loss: the 27-24-and-1 Hurricanes find themselves in an 0-3-and-1 stretch, with their latest loss coming in the form of a 6-1 defeat at the hands of the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Carolina is still very much in the hunt for a Wild Card spot (though they are highly unlikely to make a trade deadline addition) so they’re going to be highly motivated.

On Friday night, absent Jordan Staal (due to family issues), the Hurricanes lost big time to the Penguins, as noted by the Raleigh News & Observer’s Chip Alexander:

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Coreau ready for another go with the Wings

Jared Coreau spoke with the Detroit News’s Ted Kulfan regarding his call-up and the disappointment he overcame after being demoted to Grand Rapids at the start of the season:

“At the start of the year, I’ll admit it, I was a little down not making the team,” said Coreau, who was promoted to the NHL earlier in the week when Petr Mrazek was traded to Philadelphia. “It’s natural. I’m a competitor and felt like I had lost, you could say.

“But you have to suck it up and come ready to play. You work for it all summer, you work countless hours, days, weeks and months, and sometimes it just doesn’t work out. But you have to keep working and at the end of the day, no one is going to be mad at you for not succeeding but they might be bad at you for not succeeding and then giving up. I would be mad at myself.”

Coreau spent part of last season with the Red Wings (5-4-3, 3.46 GAA, .887 SVS) when Jimmy Howard injured his knee, but starred in the spring when he helped lead Grand Rapids to the Calder Cup championship.

Coreau felt he’d done enough to land an NHL job, but with Howard and Mrazek both on the Red Wings’ roster, there wasn’t any room for a third goalie. Coreau cleared waivers, and found himself back with the Griffins, where he and the team didn’t get off to rousing starts.
“I was one game below .500, 7-8-2, at one point so I said to myself, ‘You have to get it going’,” said Coreau, 25, who has been part of the Red Wings’ organization since 2013. “If the opportunity does come, I want the Red Wings to believe in me that I do have the ability to play at this level, so I have to prove it in the AHL. That brought more intensity in the game and it paid off.”
Coreau was 20-10-4, with a 2.47 goals-against average and .916 save percentage in Grand Rapids this season.

Articles from practice: Wings’ priority still winning games; Mantha to wear a “bubble”; Green skates, Abby and Tats do not; Kronwall gets a cane

Updated 3x at 4:51 PM: The Detroit Red Wings welcomed Mike Green back to practice on Friday, but the team skated without Tomas Tatar and Justin Abdelkader (maintenance) ahead of back-to-back games against Carolina and the New York Rangers.

After practice, both coach Jeff Blashill and goaltender Jared Coreau spoke to the media regarding the team’s main priority–winning games, as Blashill told DetroitRedWings.com, and Coreau told MLive’s Ansar Khan:

Continue reading Articles from practice: Wings’ priority still winning games; Mantha to wear a “bubble”; Green skates, Abby and Tats do not; Kronwall gets a cane

Tweets from practice, catch-up version: Tatar, Abdelkader take ‘maintenance days’; Green game-time decision Sat; Kronwall gets a ‘cane’

Updated at 2:10 PM: Okay, I was at the doctor’s office, so I missed the majority of today’s Red Wings practice. Let’s see what happened:

Per MLive’s Ansar Khan…

The Free Press’s Helene St. James…

And DetroitRedWings.com’s Dana Wakiji:

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Doctor day Tweets from practice: Green skating with the team

I have a doctor’s appointment at 12:45 PM, so I won’t be able to cover all of practice. MLive’s Ansar Khan reports good news regarding Mike Green:

The Free Press’s Helene St. James confirmed…

As did DetroitRedWings.com’s Dana Wakiji:

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Red Wings to hold “Fan Day at LCA” on March 19th

From the Detroit Red Wings:

Red Wings Fan Day at Little Caesars Arena set for March 19

Free, fun-filled event presented in partnership with Coca-Cola and Kroger

DETROIT – The Detroit Red Wings have teamed up with Coca-Cola and Kroger to present Fan Day at Little Caesars Arena, scheduled to take place on Monday, March 19 from 5:00 – 9:00 p.m. ET.

Several members of the Red Wings Alumni Association will be on hand to sign autographs for fans in attendance for the event. Hockey fans can also bring their ice skates to skate on the ice at Little Caesars Arena, as well as enjoy multiple interactive hockey zones, a wide variety of prizes and promotions for fans of all ages, and numerous photo opportunities.

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Khan on the Wings’ frustration with ‘good goal’ call on Kane goal, plus FSD post-game videos

Updated at 10:46 AM: MLive’s Ansar Khan penned a 7 AM-posted article regarding the Red Wings’ 3-2 OT loss to Buffalo last night. Khan addresses the Wings’ anger with the “good goal” call on Evander Kane’s marker despite Jason Pominville’s presence in Jimmy Howard’s crease:

“I thought hockey ops had done an unreal job the first part of the year of making a gray rule as black and white as they could,” Blashill said. “Basically, if you went in the blue on your own and you made contact with the goaltender and kept him from being able to play his position, it was going to be called back.

“Then there was a meeting at the All-Star Game and there was a feeling too many goals were getting called back, so they want to go back to this term ‘egregious.’ What’s egregious mean? It means something different to (everyone), so now we’re back to ultra-gray.

“All I know is Pominville had no reason to go into the crease. He stood literally right in front … right on the goalie. … So, I don’t know what goalie interference is now.”


 

Neither does Howard, who said Pominville’s stick prevented him from getting his own stick out to cover the post.

“That’s a pretty big part of the equipment there, especially on the wraparound,” Howard said. “You lead with your stick and hoping to cut that off and that was taken away.”

Khan continues, duly noting that the Wings have a horrible 12-13-and-8 record at home…

And Fox Sports Detroit posted its post-game videos in slightly belated fashion, posting comments from Henrik Zetterberg…

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