The Detroit Red Wings will be without two of their top four defensemen — Simon Edvinsson and Ben Chiarot — tonight when they play a home game against the St.
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There’s a hue and cry of outrage today among a certain percentage of the Detroit Red Wings fanbase. If the New York Rangers are getting rid of defenseman Jacob Trouba – which, evidently, they are – then the Red Wings had better be the team to get him.
The Edmonton Oilers are combing the market to add a defenceman in trade this season, and David Staples of the Edmonton Journal recently named three potential options: Rasmus Ristolainen, Ben Chiarot, and Nick Jensen.
When it comes to contracts given by the team to unrestricted free agents, the Detroit Red Wings fanbase isn’t shy about giving their opinion. And for the most part, they don’t tend to like many of the signings.
I’m sure if you asked most NHL players whether they’d want to make the playoffs or miss but get better in the long run by doing so, most players would take the playoffs.
The losing skid in Hockeytown is clearly getting to the players. During practice on Wednesday, Detroit Red Wings teammates Lucas Raymond and Ben Chiarot decided to take their frustrations out on one another.
The Detroit Red Wings have lost six games in a row. They’ve sqaundered their hold on an NHL playoff position. Nerves are frayed. Frustration is growing.
Ben Chiarot scored at 1:07 of overtime as the Detroit Red Wings defeated the host Seattle Kraken 4-3 in a Monday matinee. Lucas Raymond had a goal and an assist and Moritz Seider and Daniel Sprong also scored for Detroit, which won the final two games on its four-game trip after dropping the first two.