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 ...

(AP Photo/Paul Sancya) DETROIT — The Kings ... won their third straight by defeating the Kings, 5-2, giving Coach Todd McLellan a victory over the team that fired him not quite a year ago.

During the game, McLellan even went so far as to give Larkin a battlefield demotion by relegating him, Lucas Raymond and Marcus Kasper to the third line. Good for Todd McLellan. Because Dylan ...

DETROIT – Coaching against your former team for the first time can be a strange feeling, one Todd McLellan knows all too well. He’ll experience it for the third time tonight when the Detroit ...

It looks like general manager Steve Yzerman nailed it – or finally got lucky – and hired exactly the coach this team needs in Todd McLellan. Of course, McLellan guiding the Wings to their ...

He had to bring in someone who could immediately command respect in the room. Todd McLellan fits that description. He was hired Thursday, signed to a multiyear contract, to replace Lalonde.

There are a number of candidates for the last open NHL coaching job — the Columbus Blue Jackets — but my wish is that Todd McLellan gets it. He’s a candidate, according to my colleague Aaron ...