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Cam Talbot and the Detroit Red Wings are hanging on for dear life in the playoff race. Detroit entered March as the top Wild Card team in the East. However, another collapse in March has left the team staring down the barrel of another missed postseason.
Cam Talbot made 32 saves to lead the Detroit Red Wings to a 2-1 win over the visiting Florida Panthers on Sunday. The Red Wings (36-33-7, 79 points) won for the third time in four games and stayed in the hunt for the second and final wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference.
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In the near future, Marc-Andre Fleury will say goodbye. The Quebec-born ‘Flower’ is the last remaining goaltending link to the pre-lockout NHL. Fleury debuted before the salary cap.
The day started off with a milestone moment for Detroit Red Wings center Andrew Copp. It finished with pain and uncertainty. Late in the second period of Saturday’s 4-3 overtime loss to the Minnesota Wild, Copp was suffering an apparent left shoulder injury in a melee behind the Wild net.
Earlier in the season, Saturday’s 3-1 road victory over the Calgary Flames was probably a game that the Detroit Red Wings would’ve lost. Detroit was outshot 34-24.
The Los Angeles Kings are in town and have practically owned the Florida Panthers over the last several seasons. Just last Wednesday, the Kings scored twice in the third to squeeze out a 2-1 win in Los Angeles.
A couple of notable feats were accomplished by one of Hockeytown’s netminders. Cam Talbot led the Detroit Red Wings to a 2-0 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday night, thanks to a 28-save performance against their Atlantic Division rivals.
Cam Talbot made 28 saves and the host Detroit Red Wings handed the Tampa Bay Lightning their first shutout loss of the season, 2-0, on Saturday. Marco Kasper and Michael Rasmussen scored the goals as the Wings avenged a 5-1 loss to Tampa Bay a week earlier.
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Red Wings netminder Cam Talbot is ready to return from his lower-body injury and is expected to start on Thursday in Philadelphia.
The Detroit Red Wings’ decision to return Sebastian Cossa to the Grand Rapids Griffins Wednesday means Cam Talbot is likely healthy enough to play against the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday.
On Sunday afternoon, Detroit Red Wings goaltender Cam Talbot left his team’s game against the Vancouver Canucks with a lower-body injury. It has not been specified what Talbot hurt in the contest.
The Nashville Predators lost their first game of the season against the Dallas Stars. However, they had a chance to get in the win column on Saturday. Nashville faced the Detroit Red Wings, who came off a brutal 6-3 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins in their season opener.
Cam Talbot stopped 40 shots in his first start for Detroit as the host Red Wings notched a 3-0 win over the Nashville Predators on Saturday night. Talbot, who signed a two-year contract as a free agent, collected his 32nd career shutout.
Cam Talbot will be in the Detroit Red Wings net Saturday when they look to shake off Thursday’s bumpy season opener by posting a win against the Nashville Predators..
Simple arithmetic tells us that three into two won’t go, yet Detroit Red Wings goaltender Cam Talbot is willing to give the new math a try this season.
If you find yourself in the vicinity of Little Caesars Arena in early September and happen across a confident fellow striding purposefully toward the facility, say about 6-foot-4, 200 pounds, you might just be crossing paths with new Detroit Red Wings goalie Cam Talbot.
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He didn’t arrive with much fanfare but the resilient Cam Talbot feels determined to bring the LA Kings back to the playoffs and beyond. Entering the 2023-24 season, goaltending was arguably the biggest question mark for the LA Kings.
On this day in 2019, the Edmonton Oilers traded goaltender Cam Talbot to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for Anthony Stolarz. The one-for-one goalie swap marked one of the first moves to be made in the post-Chiarelli era of the organization, with the ex-Oilers GM having been fired three weeks prior.
We are officially less than a month away from the 2024 NHL All-Star Game that will be in Toronto, Canada from Feb. 1-3. On Thursday, Jan. 4, the NHL revealed the initial 32 players that were named to the All-Star rosters for both the Eastern and Western Conferences.
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