Entries with the tag: henrik+zetterberg

Datsyuk & Zetterberg A Unique Pair

by Paul on 05/07/08 at 12:23 PM
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from Kevin Allen of USA TODAY,

With attention usually directed to the Detroit Red Wings’ reputation as the NHL’s top puck possession team, it’s overlooked that the true uniqueness of this team is that its best scorers are also its best checkers.

The team’s two most dangerous offensive players, Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg, are among the three finalists for the Selke Trophy, the award given annually to the NHL’s top defensive forward.

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NHL Conference Call with Henrik Zetterberg

by Alanah on 05/06/08 at 02:57 PM
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Today, the NHL hosted a NHL conference call making Detroit Red Wings center Henrik Zetterberg available for questions.  In ten post-season games Henrik has recorded seven goals and six assists for 13 points, scored two game-winners and leads the league with a plus 10 plus/minus rating.

Transcript from the Q&A is below.

Q. Could you talk a little bit about the chemistry between you and Datsyuk specifically, but also with Homer as well. A lot of good players have difficulty playing with each other, but you have had a chemistry almost from the beginning. Talk about what each of you does that sort of makes this line work very well.

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Wings Advance To Western Conference Finals

by Paul on 05/02/08 at 12:59 AM
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from John Kreiser of NHL.com,

Three teams had the chance to sweep their second-round Playoff series. The Detroit Red Wings were the only ones to succeed — and they made it look easy.

The Wings completed a sweep of the Colorado Avalanche on Thursday night with an 8-2 victory. Johan Franzen had his second three-goal game of the series and Henrik Zetterberg added two goals and two assists as Detroit blew the game open with three goals in less than four minutes beginning late in the first period.

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Watch the highlight goal by Zetterberg below and added game highlights too…

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Two Different Styles

by Paul on 04/30/08 at 11:31 AM
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from Michael Farber of Sports Illustrated,

The personalities in this odd coupling could not be more different. Zetterberg, 27, has his own website, complete with his own merchandising line—henrikzetterberg.com is promoted on the Joe Louis Arena scoreboard during the second intermission—while Foote is old school enough to assume MySpace is the area between the face-off dot and the front of his own net. Zetterberg has a Google-able girlfriend, Emma Andersson, who is a pop singer/model/TV host/winner of the Swedish version of Survivor, while Foote has a wife, Jennifer, and two sons. Zetterberg has a GQ face, now adorned by a russet-tinted playoff beard, while Foote’s mogul course of a nose and lived-in features look like something out of a 19th-century daguerreotype.

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Sweden Knows Zetterberg, Detroit Doesn’t

by Paul on 04/12/08 at 08:50 AM
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from Shawn Windsor of the Detroit Free Press,

Zetterberg sat down for this story inside a lounge at Joe Louis Arena. It was lunchtime, and the team had just finished practice. Over the course of the interview, several players walked by his table. No one could resist mocking him, making faces, taking verbal shots at him. They weren’t used to seeing him talk for more than a few minutes at his locker.

“Not with the North American media anyway,” he said.

In Sweden, he is often the subject of profiles. His famous girlfriend only adds to the spotlight.

“Sometimes you just want to hide,” he said.

But here he walks around the Somerset Collection freely. He eats at local restaurants in peace. The most intrusive cameras in his life are the ones sent from his home country to watch his kitchen get turned into a high-end IKEA showcase.

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The Cup Changes Everything

by Paul on 03/03/08 at 08:38 AM
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via Crain’s Detroit Business,

The National Hockey League will be in Detroit on Tuesday to film Zetterberg in a commercial called “Walkout” — a spot “designed to highlight the distinct intensity and drama of playoff hockey seen through the eyes of the players,” according to an e-mail from Michael DiLorenzo, NHL director of corporate communications.

The ad will show Zetterberg walking onto the ice for a road playoff game with 20,000 fans rooting against him. The league didn’t say where the spot would be filmed.

Back Issue Bothering Zetterberg

by Paul on 01/23/08 at 12:12 AM
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from Ansar Khan at Mlive,

“Of course you’re concerned, but I think we’re doing the right thing,’’ Zetterberg said. “Before this happened in San Jose (Saturday, from a hit in the third period), I felt really good. ... I’m still positive. It’s not that I’m worried it’s going to go as it did last year, but you never know.’’

Zetterberg said this latest flare-up isn’t as serious as the inflamed disc that forced him to miss the final 19 games of the regular season last year. He also doesn’t believe it’s as bad as it was last month, when he hurt himself by simply picking up a laundry bag and missed five games.

“I think this is more muscular; last year it was a specific disc problem,’’ Zetterberg said.

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Zetterberg Back Problems Again

by Paul on 01/21/08 at 03:42 PM
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from the Detroit News,

Henrik Zetterberg’s back problems are flaring up again.

Zetterberg missed practice Monday and his status for the next two games against Los Angeles and Anaheim—as well as this weekend’s All-Star Game—is not known.

Zetterberg said a hit in the third period of Saturday’s game at San Jose triggered this latest setback.

“It’s stiff and sore today, it’s a challenge,” Zetterberg said. “I felt the same way yesterday and decided to stay off today. After the game (Saturday) it got a little worse.

“I’d say it’s pretty questionable for tomorrow.”

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Watching Zetterberg

by Paul on 01/20/08 at 09:10 AM
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from the Detroit Free Press,

Last year, the hosts of a popular home-makeover television show arrived at Henrik Zetterberg’s house in Bloomfield Hills to begin remodeling his kitchen. As cameras showed viewers the inside, hosts talked with Zetterberg and his girlfriend, singer/model Emma Andersson, about the project.

It was MTV “Cribs” meets IKEA. And almost no one saw it, at least not in the United States. The show, called “Room Service,” aired in Sweden, where Zetterberg grew up, and where he has become one of the most celebrated athletes.

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added 9:24am, Another “What’s Wrong With Hockeytown” story by Ryan Pyette of the London Free Press via Slam Sports.

Z Or Dats

by Paul on 01/20/08 at 08:24 AM
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from Jim Matheson of the Edmonton Journal,

Who’s better? Pavel Datsyuk or Henrik Zetterberg? That’s like comparing a Porsche to a Mercedes, but one NHL coach, who shall go nameless because his team has to play against the Detroit Red Wings players, says Zetterberg gets the edge. “He’s grittier, more competitive. Zetterberg is a lot like Forsberg was in his heyday,” said the coach. “Datsyuk has really taken on a leadership role there, too. That’s good to see.”

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Quit “Dipping”, Get Healthier

by Paul on 11/26/07 at 09:57 AM
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Snapshots points out Zetterberg has stopped his chewing tobacco habit…

Sweden’s Aftonbladet newspaper posted a “teaser” article for their sports magazine, which features Detroit Red Wings forward Henrik Zetterberg as the cover boy. Zetterberg apparently states that he’s given up chewing tobacco as part of his doctor’s prescription for avoiding future back problems by modifying his diet and work on strengthening his core.

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Petty Disputes & Goalie Aggravations

by Alanah on 11/24/07 at 03:55 PM
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A mild disagreement.  As a Wings fan, Kukla is convinced this cover for the latest edition of The Hockey News looks great:

But I’ve proposed what I think is a reasonable, much more interesting alternative for a future editions.  Perhaps THN will be able to bank it for later…

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Is Zetterberg the Best?

by Alanah on 10/29/07 at 12:56 PM
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From Eric Duhatschek at the Globe & Mail,

But there could be an argument made that right now, as October draws to a close that the league’s best player could be one that wasn’t chosen until the 210th overall pick of the 1999 entry draft; who stands a modest 5-foot-11; who just turned 27 earlier this month and has quietly averaged more than a point-a-game in the two-plus seasons of the post-lockout NHL.

That would be the Detroit Red Wings’ Henrik Zetterberg who, after most of Canada went to sleep Sunday night, set up a goal by Tomas Holmstrom in what would eventually be a 3-2 win over the Vancouver Canucks. It was the Red Wings 12th game of the season and the 12th in which Zetterberg has picked up at least a point.

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“Canucks Destroy Red Wings”

by Alanah on 10/24/07 at 12:55 PM
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That’ll be the headline tomorrow… or so the voices in my head tell me.

But—taking a break from my dementia—there are a couple serious obstacles to such a happy ending:  (1) the Canucks can’t score their way out of a paper bag; and (2) Henrik Zetterberg can’t stop scoring.

From TSN:

Henrik Zetterberg will attempt to extend his season-opening point streak tonight when his Detroit Red Wings host the Vancouver Canucks at Joe Louis Arena.  Zetterberg has at least a point in each of Detroit’s first nine games, posting seven goals and 10 assists in that span.

Poll Question:  Can Luongo stop Zetterberg?

Zetterberg Works On His Core

by Paul on 10/24/07 at 07:21 AM
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from the Vancouver Province,

So he spent a good portion of his summer working with Swedish elite League club Timra’s fitness trainer Thord Johansson and Andreas Ohgren, a personal trainer in Stockholm, to try to cure the back ailment.

The goal was to strengthen the muscles in his abdomen, but not the ones people usually work on.

“It started out really no more than breathing exercises and it progressed from there,” he was explaining Tuesday from Detroit.

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Stars Of The Week

by Paul on 10/15/07 at 11:26 AM
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NEW YORK (October 15, 2007) – Carolina Hurricanes goaltender Cam Ward, Buffalo Sabres defenseman Brian Campbell and Detroit Red Wings forward Henrik Zetterberg have been named the NHL’s ‘Three Stars’ for the week ending October 14.

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“Z” Gear

by Paul on 10/10/07 at 07:09 AM
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Be like Zetterberg!  Get your gear.

Zetterberg Worth Less Than Datsyuk?

by Paul on 09/09/07 at 12:58 AM
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from the Boston Globe,

Since July 2006, Detroit general manager Ken Holland has made the fewest deals in the league: only two, both coming at the 2007 trade deadline. That’s because the Red Wings have been among the shrewdest drafters in the NHL, using low-round picks to nab their three star forwards: Pavel Datsyuk (sixth round, 1998), Henrik Zetterberg (seventh round, 1999), and Tomas Holmstrom (10th round, 1994). One of Holland’s priorities will be to lock up Zetterberg, who has two more years on his current deal, to a long-term extension, most likely at a tick under Datsyuk’s annual pay of $6.7 million.

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