Press release: Hockey Hall of Fame to celebrate Red Wings, Blackhawks and Rangers’ centennials with special exhibit

From the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Kelly Masse:

HOCKEY HALL OF FAME CELEBERATES BLACKHAWKS, RED WINGS AND RANGERS WITH A TRIPLE CENTENNIAL EXHIBIT

Limited-time exhibit features exclusive artifacts showcasing 100 seasons

of three Original Six teams

TORONTO (October 10, 2025) – To honour three of the Original Six teams celebrating historic seasons, the Hockey Hall of Fame has opened a Triple Centennial Exhibit that will run through January 2027.

Specially curated artifacts have been chosen to represent the Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings and New York Rangers franchises from their inaugural NHL seasons in 1925-26 to present day. The display showcases stories that define milestone moments and championship seasons. Numerous Honoured Members are also highlighted in this time-limited display.

The Hockey Hall of Fame celebrated the other three Original Six NHL franchises 100th anniversaries with dedicated displays of the Montreal Canadiens in 2009, Toronto Maple Leafs in 2017 and the Boston Bruins in 2023.

“The Hockey Hall of Fame is thrilled to honour the remaining three Original Six teams of the National Hockey League who will be celebrating their 100th anniversaries.  We are excited to showcase the rich history of the Blackhawks, Red Wings and Rangers,” said Phil Pritchard, Vice-President, Resource Centre and Curator, Hockey Hall of Fame.  “Some of these unique artifacts are on display for the first time, giving hockey fans and guests a first look at hockey history.  We look forward to sharing these special memories with hockey fans of all ages.”

Featured Artifacts:

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Tweets from Friday’s Red Wings practice: some lineup changes are made as the Wings skate the ‘bad’ out of their systems

The Detroit Red Wings laid an egg in the form of a 5-1 loss to the Montreal Canadiens last night, and coach Todd McLellan and captain Dylan Larkin didn’t hold back in terms of criticizing their team’s effort and structure (or the lack thereof).

The Red Wings kick off a home-and-home series against the Toronto Maple Leafs tomorrow night (7 PM EDT start on FanDuel Sports Network Detroit/CBC/Sportsnet Ontario/Sportsnet West/Sportsnet Pacific/97.1 FM), too, so the Red Wings need to resolve their neutral zone coverage and tendency to surrender odd-man rushes in a hurry.

NHL.com previews tomorrow night’s match-up thusly:

Americans to duel in Detroit

Auston Matthews and Patrick Kane, potential teammates with the United States at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026, will take the stage when Matthews’ Toronto Maple Leafs (1-0-0) visit Kane’s Detroit Red Wings (0-1-0) at Little Caesars Arena (7 p.m. ET; FDSNDET, SNP, SNW, SNO, CBC) for the first game of a home-and-home series that concludes Monday at Toronto. The two forwards have a knack for putting on a show when they face each other; Matthews had 21 points (10 goals, 11 assists) and Kane had 17 points (seven goals, 10 assists) in their 16 previous meetings. After scoring in Toronto’s 5-2 season-opening win against the Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday, Matthews (402 goals) is 19 away from passing Mats Sundin (420) for most goals in Maple Leafs history. Kane (492) needs eight goals to become the fifth U.S.-born player to reach 500. He didn’t score in Detroit’s 5-1 season-opening loss to Montreal on Thursday.

Saturday night’s game is a Hockey Night in Canada match-up, too:

The Red Wings hit the ice at Little Caesars Arena’s BELFOR Training Center at 12 PM today, and they “got skated” from the get-go:

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Pressure’s on Cossa, Griffins as the AHL season begins

FloHockey’s Patrick Williams posted a set of team previews ahead of the start of the AHL season tonight, and here’s what he had to say about the Grand Rapids Griffins:

Grand Rapids Griffins (Detroit Red Wings): Pressure definitely abounds in Detroit as the organization’s rebuilding process continues, and that feeling certainly extends to Grand Rapids, where the Red Wings will continue to count heavily on proper development of a long list of prospects. Detroit has gone with some youth coming out of training camp, but the Griffins need to continue preparing prospects or this rebuilding plan will not pan out. Sebastian Cossa is going into his fourth pro season; he has been good, but now he needs to be dominant. Detroit signed forward John Leonard, whose 36 goals last season with Charlotte tied him for second in the AHL. 

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Keeping an eye on ASP

Daily Faceoff’s Steven Ellis offers one rookie from every NHL team to watch, and he picks one of the Red Wings’ rookie trio as his spotlighted debutante:

Detroit Red Wings: Axel Sandin-Pellikka, RHD, 20

The Red Wings will start the 2025-26 season with three rookies in the NHL (Emmitt Finnie and Michael Brandsegg-Nygard being the others). While there’s a solid chance all three will end up in Grand Rapids, all three deserve to be with the big club to start the year. ASP is perhaps the most interesting – he might be a bit undersized, but he has immense skill. For starters, he plays with so much confidence – and it led to a U-20-leading 29 points in the SHL in 2024-25. His defensive game is solid, too. Sandin-Pellikka is physically engaged quite often, something that wasn’t the case in his draft year.

Continued; Sandin Pellikka probably has the highest ceiling of the three, and he looked pretty good on a very “off” night for the Wings yesterday evening.

Morning Griffins goodies: Setting up the Griffins-Stars series; on Shai Buium, Ondrej Becher and the illustrious Mark Newman

Of Grand Rapids Griffins-related note this morning:

  1. Andrew Streitel wrote a very, very good slate of game notes ahead of tonight’s game against the Texas Stars (8 PM at H-E-B Park Arena, and tomorrow at the same time, airing on FloHockey.tv), including the following:

Shine On, Captain


Yesterday, Dominik Shine was named the 19th captain in franchise history. He returns to Grand Rapids for his 10th season, becoming just the third player in team history to reach the milestone (Brian Lashoff 14, Travis Richards 10). During the 2024-25 AHL season, Shine posted career-high numbers in assists (32), points (46), power-play goals (5), game-winners (4), shots (149), and multi-point outings (11) to go along with 14 goals and 76 penalty minutes in 61 regular-season games. He also signed his first NHL contract on Jan. 27, 2025, and later that evening made his NHL debut against the Los Angeles Kings. Shine became the oldest skater to make his NHL debut since Evgeny Medvedev did so at 33 on Oct. 8, 2015, and the oldest Red Wings player to make his debut since Vaclav Nedomansky did it at 33 on Nov. 18, 1977. On the all-time regular-season franchise leaderboard, Shine ranks third in games played (483), tied for seventh in goals (75), tied for ninth in assists (109), ninth in points (184), sixth in penalty minutes (553), tied for eighth in short-handed goals (5), tied for seventh in game-winners (12), tied for first in unassisted goals (10), and tied for sixth in shots (797). 

2. The Grand Rapids Griffins also post a monthly magazine called “Griffiti.” Amongst this month’s stories are the following:

A) Shai Buium discusses his unconventional hockey roots with Kyle Kujawa:

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Roughly translated: Nicklas Lidstrom watches Eddie Genborg; Brandsegg-Nygard’s debut goes ‘okay’

Of foreign language-related Red Wings note this morning:

  1. Red Wings prospect Eddie Genborg, who plays for Timra IK of the SHL, has found himself in the company of Red Wings legends of late. Hockeynews.se’s Linnea Andersson reports that both Nicklas Lidstrom and Niklas Kronwall have watched Genbrg play recently:

Eddie Genborg had eyes on him when Timra played Orebro. On the spot was NHL legend Nicklas Lidström, in his role as representative of the Detroit Red Wings, to probably get a closer look at the Timra talent.

Nicklas Lidström was in Orebro when Timra fell 5-3 [on Thursday]. He is today “Vice President of Hockey Operations” in the Detroit Red Wings – the team that chose to draft Eddie Genborg last summer.

Genborg had time to exchange a few words with him after the loss, but he isn’t sure if the visit really was for him. The only thing he knew was that Lidstrom was there – something he found out just before the game began.

“I talked to him a little bit after the game. I don’t really know, but I think it was just me who was drafted by Detroit there. It’s great that he was there,” Genborg told ST.nu.

Genborg was pleased with his efforts, and told us that he and Lidstrom talked a little about the start of the season–and about how he enjoys life in Sundsvall.

Genborg was told that Lidstrom was in place just before puck drop. In the past, Niklas Kronwall has also visited Timra to follow him. This time, Genborg tried not to put too much emphasis on one of the hockey world’s biggest names sitting in the stands.

“I try not to think about it that much. It’s just fun that he’s there and watching, but you can’t think about it too much, it probably just puts traps in your head then.”

2. Nitten.no also posted a column which discusses Michael Brandsegg-Nygard’s NHL debut:

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Morning news: on fixable errors, rookie debuts, boo birds, ‘5 thoughts’ and an optimistic Monarrez (sort of)

The Detroit Red Wings dropped a frustrating 5-1 decision to the Montreal Canadiens last night in the Wings’ home opener, and this morning, a quintet of writers have weighed with more discussion about the Red Wings’ loss.

First, MLive’s Ansar Khan points out that, while the Wings gave up a gaggle of odd-man rushes due to neutral zone turnovers, the team believes that their errors are fixable–but only at a cost:

“You don’t give up two-on-ones; if a D’s down, a forward covers,” [coach Todd McLellan] said. “You manage the puck; you don’t turn it over. I thought we got off to a good start, but our game management, you’re going to hear that all year from me because clearly, it’s still a huge issue. We just played the game; we didn’t play to win the game.

“The players will say we can fix this. We can. Some of them have been doing it for years. It’s time. We just spent 3-3½ weeks at training camp dealing with these situations. If it happened once or twice in a game, OK. But there’s maybe six or seven outnumbered rushes at the end of the first period from the 10-minute mark on and it’s unacceptable. We’ll have to drill it back into them.”

The Canadiens scored five unanswered goals after Dylan Larkin opened the scoring on the power play at 3:50 of the first. John Gibson, in his Red Wings debut, allowed all five goals on 13 shots and was pulled for Cam Talbot with 3:48 remaining in the second.

“I thought it was a great start, really good intensity, and then the game kind of slipped away from us,” Moritz Seider said. “We weren’t detailed. They just kind of outworked us, out-skated us, got a lot of great opportunities around our net and nothing Gibby could have done to prevent goals.”

McLellan and players said they “hung (Gibson) out to dry.”

“We didn’t execute and everything they got, I feel like we let them get behind us,” Larkin said. “We seemed like we really couldn’t do the simple things, chipping pucks in and getting to our game on the forecheck. We shot ourselves in the foot so many times that we didn’t have time to get to our game and create offense. It was chaotic and a lot of the chaos was self-inflicted, and it was a strange, strange game and we just really did not help ourselves at all. And I do believe it’s all fixable.”

Second, Detroit Hockey Now’s Kevin Allen noted the following about the Red Wings’ rookie trio:

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Spotlighting Marco Kasper and Emmitt Finnie

Of Red Wings player-related note this morning:

  1. ESPN’s Greg Wyshynski lists 30 players which he believes will “break out” this upcoming season, as well as the reasons why said players are to flourish, and he suggests that Marco Kasper will prove that “the wait is over“:

Marco Kasper
C, Detroit Red Wings

Kasper was set up for success in his rookie season, spending a good portion of his season (273 minutes) with Dylan Larkin and Lucas Raymond on the team’s top line. For an encore, Kasper will be asked to drive his own line this season, potentially in the middle of Alex DeBrincat and Patrick Kane.

That line actually produced strong defensive results (1.2 goals against per 60 minutes) last season to go along with its offensive pop.

2. And The Athletic’s Sean McIndoe suggests that one of the Red Wings’ rookie trio is a player of “intrigue” to watch this season:

Emmitt Finnie, Detroit Red Wings

The rebuilding Red Wings are counting on their youth to carry them back to the playoffs, and some of that may come from an unlikely source. Two years after being the No. 201 pick in the draft, Finnie has been penciled in on the first line alongside Dylan Larkin and Lucas Raymond. That’s on the strength of a strong camp and exhibition season, one that’s won over a big chunk of the fan base. It’s a fun underdog story. Can it last? They rarely do, but rarely isn’t never.

Casting a vote for Simon

Alex DeBrincat earns an A+ for understanding the assignment here. NHL.com asked players on the media tour in Las Vegas which player they feel will be the NHL’s next break-out star, and most of them mentioned Macklin Celebrini or Wyatt Johnston. DeBrincat wasn’t having it:

A similar thing was said regarding Detroit Red Wings defenseman Simon Edvinsson, who is 6-foot-6 and 209 pounds.

“I think he has all the tools and obviously a big body that skates well,” said teammate Alex DeBrincat, who skated with Edvinsson in the offseason. “He can be a player that helps our team this year.”

Red Wings-Canadiens wrap-up: recovering from a Winged Wheel Wreck

The Detroit Red Wings dropped a 5-1 decision to the Montreal Canadiens in the Wings’ home opener, with Detroit taking a 1-0 lead, but surrendering 3 1st-period goals and 2 2nd-period goals en route to a difficult opening-night setback.

Things don’t get any easier as the Wings kick off a home-and-home series with the Toronto Maple Leafs on Hockey Night in Canada on Saturday night.

As you might expect, the Canadiens’ status as a 1-and-1 team had its press corps, both in English and French, exultant, suggesting that nothing can stop the great Canadiens machine. Sportsnet’s Eric Engels marveled at the ways in which the Canadiens’ newer players have “seamlessly” been integrated into the team…

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