Joe Louis Arena

If the rosters of past Stanley Cup champions hand-painted on concrete walls inside Joe Louis Arena didn't reiterate to the Blackhawks that they face a Red Wings tradition, not just a team, defenseman Brent Seabrook unwittingly offered a reminder....

A stirred, if not shaken, Chicago Blackhawks team re-emerged Tuesday without much more explanation for what happened the night before: They played more or less how they wanted and still dropped Game 3 to the Red Wings. If the confidence hasn't dropped,...

As Blackhawks teammates tracked back and forth in various states of post-loss gloom late Monday, Patrick Sharp sat silent in a shoebox-sized anteroom to the main visitor's dressing area at Joe Louis Arena, hands folded and staring straight ahead....

DETROIT -- The venue changes. Maybe the pressure does, too. But the Detroit Red Wings believe everything goes back to the beginning against the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday, when the puck drops for Game 3 and the teams are dead even in a Western...

DETROIT — The goal happened in open ice and plain sight, but afterward Brent Seabrook stood in front of his locker stall, looking down at his hands pantomiming a stick-handle movement as he sought words to describe accurately what had happened to...

DETROIT — Sometimes, it takes more than urgency and effort. Sometimes, a hockey team can pack all the sandpaper and abrasiveness coaches seek for a road trip into a hostile arena, and it still won't be enough. Sometimes, playing with a sense...

The Blackhawks won the first shift of Game 2 of their Western Conference semifinal series, and that was pretty much it. The Red Wings won almost everything else --- the tempo, the style, the puck, and most importantly, the game. This is what adversity...

When you have it, you cherish it. When you lose it, you act like it's no big deal. It's home-ice advantage and after working all season to obtain it, it's what the Blackhawks yielded to the Red Wings on Saturday when they dropped Game 2 of the Western...

Viktor Stalberg's absence from the Chicago Blackhawks lineup "likely" ends after two games. The Hawks need better pace in Game 3 against the Red Wings on Monday, so they appear to be reinserting Stalberg, a player with superior speed and lingering...

There were times during their first-round series against the Wild when the Blackhawks weren't at their best. Despite those moments, the Hawks cruised past their under-manned foe in five games. Memo to the Hawks: The Red Wings aren't the Wild....

Through the long and storied history of the Blackhawks and Red Wings —two of the National Hockey League's Original Six franchises — the teams have faced off 799 times. When they hit the ice for No. 800 in Game 1 of the Western Conference...

The Chicago Blackhawks finally know their opponent for the second round of the playoffs. When the Detroit Red Wings knocked off the Anaheim Ducks 3-2 in Game 7 on Sunday night in Anaheim, it set up an Original Six showdown between the Wings and Hawks in...