by Mitch Albom | Mar 5, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
At the end of the season, if you’re the best player in the NHL, the trophy they give you is named after Ted Lindsay. That’s all you really need to know. He won four Stanley Cups and once led the league in scoring, was a Red Wings general manager and briefly their...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 16, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
That was no accident Friday. Hank Zetterberg said goodbye to an amazing hockey career exactly where he wanted to do it: Where it began. “Having a little media scrum in the corner, in a practice rink, in Traverse City, during training camp,” he admitted Saturday via...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 5, 2017 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
This is the first week of the rest of the Detroit Red Wings’ life. Their new life. As ground dwellers. They let go of the mountain last week, trading all easily movable players to stockpile draft picks. It is the kind of move teams make when they realize the...
by mitchalbom_webmaster | Feb 20, 2017 | News
Finalists were announced today in the Michigan Associated Press Media Editors 2016 newspaper contest. Two of Mitch Albom’s columns in the Detroit Free Press in 2016 were selected as finalists. Read them here: For Best Sports Story Pavel Datsyuk says he will...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 13, 2016 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Hank Zetterberg is seeing ghosts. He sits in an empty Joe Louis Arena locker room and actually nods in their direction as he praises them — Steve Yzerman, who used to sit on his left, Nick Lidstrom, who sat a few stalls down on his right. “You do know they’re gone,” I...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 12, 2016 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Reflecting on the tales centered around Gordie Howe–Mr. Hockey–shows he touched most of metro Detroit, hockey world in special way Here’s a Gordie Howe story. He was playing at the old Olympia, and an opposing player hit him and somehow cut his hand....
by Mitch Albom | Jun 10, 2016 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Superman just bid us farewell. It’s hard to believe, Gordie Howe dying, because for so many years, he seemed immune to all of life’s blows. From a terrible early head injury that might have ended other players’ careers, to a stroke a few years ago that brought him to...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 17, 2016 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Where do you belong? For more than two decades, Steve Yzerman belonged here, in Detroit, as a beloved player and eventual captain of the Red Wings. He started his pro career in Detroit. He ended his pro career in Detroit. He won his Stanley Cups in Detroit. He got...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 7, 2016 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Just before the national anthem Wednesday night, it was announced that Pavel Datsyuk had recently reached the 600-assist milestone with the Red Wings. He was called out on the ice for a presentation. Then, as the 37-year-old skated back to the bench, anxious fans...
by mitchalbom_webmaster | Feb 25, 2016 | News, Films
Mitch Albom will write the feature film about John Scott, the career “enforcer” who was voted into the NHL All-Star Game through an Internet write-in campaign, only to be traded down to the minor league when he refused to bow out. Scott would go on to captain his...
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