After struggling during the first five games of the Western Conference semifinals against San Jose, Red Wings forward Valtteri Filppula stepped up when his team needed it the most. With the Wings ...

DETROIT (AP) — This is what happens when Valtteri Filppula shoots the puck. Filppula had two goals and an assist, surpassing 20 goals for the first time in his career, Jimmy Howard made 19 saves for ...

When Flyers general manager Ron Hextall acquired veteran center Valtteri Filppula from the Tampa Bay Lightning in a trade-deadline deal last March, the move made sense at first glance. After all, ...

When Valtteri Filppula signed with the Islanders over the summer, the expectation was that he'd help revive the team's penalty kill and bring a reliable veteran presence down the middle. Filppula wasn ...

Detroit Red Wings forward Valtteri Filppula has David Krejci disease. He's an offensively gifted player, a No. 2 center on any team in the National Hockey League not named Pittsburgh and yet ...

So, when is it exactly that a player,"arrives." Clearly, when people talk about an athlete arriving, they're not referencing his appearance at a particular spatial and temporal location. Sure, new ...

SUNRISE, Fla. — The clear explanation of an injury probably made Lou Lamoriello shudder, but the news itself probably made the Islanders president smile. Lamoriello is adamant about disclosing as ...

Detroit Red Wings forward Valtteri Filppula will be out six-to-eight weeks with a sprained right medial collateral ligament, but he might not miss an NHL game, the way collective bargaining talks are ...

Valtteri Filppula was lost two shifts into the first period after getting shoved by Andrew Shaw GM Ken Hollald said after the game that Filppula had suffered a high-ankle sprain He%27s an unrestricted ...