Red Wings: How to respond in their next game after opening night dud
Detroit Red Wings Andrew Copp, James van Riemsdyk & Todd McLellan, Oct. 10, 2025 in Detroit.
Monday is Canadian Thanksgiving, but will Detroit sports fans have something to be thankful for?
The NHL has moved up the Detroit Red Wings‘ game on the holiday – Monday, Oct. 13 – in Toronto because no matter what, the Blue Jays will be hosting a game in the 2025 MLB playoffs.
The Wings were originally scheduled to play the Maple Leafs at 4 p.m. Monday at Scotiabank Arena in downtown Toronto. But the Blue Jays will be hosting Game 2 of the ALCS at Rogers Centre at either 4:38 or 5:03 p.m. that day.
Rogers Centre and Scotiabank Arena are slightly further apart than the baseball and hockey stadiums in Detroit, with a distance in Toronto of approximately 1.1 miles. But both games should draw big crowds, and so the Wings-Leafs game was changed to 2 p.m.
The game falls on Canadian Thanksgiving, a holiday across America’s neighbor.
Of course, the crowd could get even bigger, depending on the results of Friday’s ALDS game in Seattle between the Detroit Tigers and the Seattle Mariners; the winner of that game advances to play the Blue Jays in the ALCS.
A Tigers win on Friday could create an unexpected Detroit/Toronto doubleheader, with another bonus: The Maple Leafs plan to show the entirety of the Jays’ playoff game on the video board at Scotiabank Arena.
Monday’s Wings/Leafs game is the back half of a home-and-home between the teams, with Toronto visiting Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena (7 p.m., FanDuel Sports Network Detroit).
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