That will change when the veteran bench boss coaches his first game behind the Detroit Red Wings' bench on Friday night against the Toronto Maple Leafs — and he shared one awesome reason why he ...

(CBS DETROIT) - The Detroit Red Wings announced it has relieved head coach Derek Lalonde and associate coach Bob Bougher of their duties after the team lost three straight games in the last week.

On Thursday, the Detroit Red Wings announced a coaching change, parting ways with head coach Derek Lalonde and replacing him with 57-year-old veteran Todd McLellan. Lalonde failed to reach the ...

New Red Wings head coach Todd McLellan, 57, was an assistant coach under Mike Babcock from 2005-08. Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman, incidentally, was the captain in his final playing ...

Todd McLellan, who won the Stanley Cup as a Detroit Red Wings assistant, is returning to the team to try to get it back to the playoffs. McLellan, 57, was hired as the franchise's 29th head coach ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Detroit Red Wings head coach Derek Lalonde, standing, watches during the first period of an NHL hockey game ...

The Detroit Red Wings fired coach Derek Lalonde on Thursday ... McLellan signed a multiyear contract to start his fourth NHL head coaching job after stints with San Jose, Edmonton and Los Angeles.

LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - The Detroit Red Wings announced a big change Thursday afternoon as they relieved Head Coach Derek Lalonde and Associate Coach Bob Boughner of their duties effective ...

Derek Lalonde was fired as coach of the Detroit Red Wings after two-plus seasons. He has been replaced by former Wings assistant coach Todd McLellan. The team announced the news Thursday ...

Detroit — In the end, the amount and way the Red Wings were losing lately was simply ... named McLellan the team's 29th head coach in franchise history and signed McLellan to a multi-year ...

Steve Yzerman took a flier with his first head coach hire as Detroit Red Wings general manager, bringing in Derek Lalonde, who had never served in that capacity in the NHL. It didn’t work ...

The Detroit Red Wings announced that head coach Derek Lalonde and assistant Bob Boughner had been relieved of their duties. The team also announced that former Los Angeles Kings head coach Todd ...