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Post-morning skate Tweets: Lyon starts, ‘no timeline’ for Petry; Sens skip morning skate in lieu of team meeting

Ahead of tonight’s match-up between the Detroit Red Wings and Ottawa Senators (7 PM start on FanDuel SportsNet Detroit/TSN5/RDS/97.1 FM), the Red Wings held their morning skate. MLive’s Ansar Khan reported that Alex Lyon will start tonight, and that Jeff Petry remains out on the Wings’ defense.

After the morning skate, the Wings’ media corps spoke with Detroit’s players and coach:

There’s also this:

Also: Here’s the Senators website’s Wings-Sens preview…

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A pair of promotional Tweets

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Monday/Tuesday news round-up: Red Wings ‘In Work Phase’

Catching up after I became a bit ill on Monday afternoon:

  1. MLive’s Ansar Khan posted an article discussing the Red Wings’ situation as having improved under coach Todd McLellan:

“For sure, things change quickly,” goaltender Alex Lyon said. “It’s like you’re so far down one week and then the next week it feels like you’re on top of the world. But we got to be careful of getting too high. We learned that lesson last year. It’s not about the standings; it’s not about the playoffs. It’s about playing the right way and focusing on the process and having good practices. But certainly, it’s a bit more fun to be playing when you’re feeling like this.”

The Red Wings play their next four at home before their schedule gets much more difficult. According to tankathon.com, the Red Wings currently have the second-toughest remaining schedule (their opponents have a .571 points percentage). And they play 23 of their final 39 on the road.

That’s all outside noise to players. They’re focused on the day-to-day task of winning and playing games that matter in the standings is important.

“I’ve played on teams where you’re kind of out of the playoffs with 20 games left or it doesn’t look very bright and it’s not fun to play those games,” Patrick Kane said. “We kind of worked ourselves back into a position where we’re playing these meaningful games. But that just shows how tight it is. I mean, things can change overnight. That’s why every game’s so important from here.”

2. The Free Press’s Helene St. James also discussed the Wings’ belief that their “honeymoon phase” under coach Todd McLellan is over…

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Red Wings alumnus Dwight Foster passes away

Per the Red Wings:

Detroit Hockey Now’s Bob Duff has more:

He wound up playing four seasons with the Red Wings. Foster would scored 14 goals in 1982-83 and 13 goals in 1984-85. Known as a determined checker, he was receiving votes for the Selke Trophy in both 1983-84 and 1984-85.

The Red Wings were reporting news of Foster’s death via the club’s social media sites. He would settle in the Detroit suburbs following his playing days and was a regular participant with the Red Wings Alumni. Foster’s son Alex also played in the NHL. Alex Foster suited up for three games with the Toronto Maple Leafs in 2007-08. Today he is a partner in a mortgage company based in Oakland County, Mich.

Red Wings-Senators morning skate Tweets and game preview: Lyon starts, Petry still out

The 17-18-and-4 Detroit Red Wings host the 19-17-and-2 Ottawa Senators this evening (7 PM EST start on FanDuel SportsNet Detroit/TSN5/RDS/97.1 FM), and the game is crucial for both teams.

The Red Wings have won 4 straight games, but need to make up ground in the Eastern Conference and Atlantic Division standings; Ottawa has lost 4 of their last 5 games without goaltender Linus Ullmark, who is having back spasms, and the Ottawa Sun’s Bruce Garrioch summarizes the Senators’ situation thusly:

The Senators woke up on the outside of the National Hockey League’s playoff picture for the first time in three weeks on Monday morning.

The club has lost four of its last five games without top goaltender Linus Ullmark and the Senators need to right the ship to stay in the race.

Detroit has won four straight under new head coach Todd McLellan and the Wings are one of the teams the Senators are battling to make the playoffs for the first time in eight years.

The Senators scored a 2-1 win over the Wings on Dec. 5 at home.

“You see the standings. I watch a lot of hockey,” said centre Tim Stutzle after the club’s skate on Monday. “We’ve just got to focus on ourselves, and we want to win as many games as we can. It’s about us in here and it doesn’t really matter what other teams do. We’re just trying to win our games.”

Field Level Media also took note of the Sens’ issues of late…

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Poolies might want to pick up Patrick Kane

ESPN’s Victoria Matiash suggests that fantasy hockey poolies might want to pick up a certain Red Wings veteran who’s looking like his old self again:

Patrick Kane, F, Detroit Red Wings (1.3 FPPG, 48.1% available): The veteran scorer has three goals and four assists during the Red Wings’ current four-game win streak. That correlation is no coincidence. While it’s taken him too long to warm up, on a forward unit with Andrew Copp and Alex DeBrincat, Kane might finally be back to putting up numbers to which we’ve become accustomed.

Continued; it’s just plain old good to see Kane look relaxed and happy again.

Training camp try-out Alex Chiasson retires

One-time Red Wing, Grand Rapids Griffin, and 2024 training camp/exhibition season try-out Alex Chiasson has retired…

And the Hockey News’s Sam Stockton took note of Chiasson’s time in Detroit:

Chiasson’s time in Detroit wasn’t long, playing just his last 20 games with the Red Wings in the 2022-23 season.  He attempted a comeback on a PTO with Detroit during training camp, but it didn’t result in a contract.  Now, unsigned midway through the season, Chiasson has accepted that his NHL career has run its course.

Even back in training camp, Chiasson recognized that his time in the NHL was coming to an end.  “If we go back maybe a year from today, I wasn’t sure where my career was at,” he said in October. “Thought maybe that was it for me. Hockey was hard physically, but just life in general wasn’t much fun. So went through the process and ended up getting surgery in January, and here we are today. [I’m] grateful for the opportunity to be here, obviously worked really hard to come back. It’s not easy at 33 to put in the work and all that, but you can only do this for so long, and hopefully I can show what I can do.”

Red Wings spent Saturday night, Sunday morning in Friendly Manitoba

The Free Press’s Helene St. James reports that the Red Wings spent a little more time in the prairie province of Manitoba than they’d hoped to after Saturday night’s 4-2 win over the Jets:

It happened to the Detroit Red Wings over the weekend, as a mechanical issue with their airplane prevented their scheduled Saturday night departure from Winnipeg, Manitoba, where they had just downed the Jets, 4-2. Instead of getting home around 1 a.m. Sunday morning, the Wings landed, per coach Todd McLellan, around 3:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon.

“Things like that happen,” McLellan said Monday. “You control the things you can control and react to the other. The group was good. It was a bit of a test today because they spent their scheduled day off in Winnipeg; it wasn’t ideal, so how are they going to react in practice? They reacted well.”

The only players not at practice were defensemen Jeff Petry, who is being evaluated for an undisclosed injury suffered Jan. 2 in the game at the Columbus Blue Jackets, and Justin Holl, who was excused for personal reasons. McLellan said Petry will miss Tuesday’s game against the Ottawa Senators at Little Caesars Arena, but expects Holl to be available.

The rest of the players went through a nearly hour-long practice that culminated with a spirited four-team shootout contest.

“They came and worked hard,” McLellan said. “We tried to work on a few concepts and they put them into play, gave us their time, gave us their best. Hopefully that translates into the game tomorrow. Because we had to stay in Winnipeg a few extra hours long doesn’t affect anything we did today or tomorrow or moving forward.”

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Tweet of note: ECHL names Carter Gylander their goaltender of the week

Per the ECHL:

Here’s the ECHL’s press release:

Carter Gylander of the Toledo Walleye is the Warrior Hockey ECHL Goaltender of the Week for Dec. 30-Jan. 5.
 
Gylander went 3-0-0 with one shutout, a 1.67 goals-against average and a save percentage of .952 in three appearances last week.
 
The 23-year-old stopped 30 shots in a 3-2 win at Cincinnati on Tuesday, made 44 saves in a 4-3 victory at Fort Wayne on Friday and turned aside all 26 shots in a 3-0 win over the Komets on Saturday.
 
Under a National Hockey League contract with Detroit, Gylander has appeared in 13 games with the Walleye this season going 9-2-2 with two shutouts, a 2.22 goals-against average – which ranks seventh in the ECHL – and a save percentage of .921, which is eighth in the league.
 
Prior to turning pro, Gylander saw action in 106 career games at Colgate University where he went 46-46-13 with five shutouts, a 2.69 goals-against average and a save percentage of .907.

Videos: Kane, Lyon and coach McLellan speak after Monday’s practice

The Detroit Red Wings practiced at Little Caesars Arena’s BELFOR Training Center this morning, preparing for Tuesday night’s game against Ottawa.

Jeff Petry and Justin Holl did not participate in Monday’s practice, and the Wings’ media corps reported that Petry remains sidelined with an injury, per coach Todd McLellan.

The Red Wings posted a 15:36 clip of Patrick Kane and coach Todd McLellan speaking with the media today…

And the Free Press’s Helene St. James also posted a clip of comments from Kane, Alex Lyon and coach McLellan: