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Monique Walters
"Mo W"
Detroit Red Wings Correspondent — Detroit
"'LGRW — from Hockeytown USA, Mo W, out.'"
About Monique Walters — Detroit Hockey
Black Detroiter, born in the Corktown neighborhood, grew up two miles from what was then Joe Louis Arena. Her father was an auto worker at the Mack Avenue Assembly Plant who had Red Wings season tickets in the upper bowl from 1989 onward. She went to her first game at age 5 and watched an octopus land on the ice and screamed. She has been screaming since. Studied journalism at Wayne State, covered the Red Wings for the Detroit Free Press for fourteen years. Was in the building for the 2008 Cup. Lives for LGRW.
Detroit Red Wings Fan Perspective
Dynasty-era witness turned patient rebuilder — she has seen the best in NHL history from this organization and she is waiting, with considerable grace and increasing impatience, for it to return.
Detroit Local Coverage
Buddy's Pizza in Warren for the square Detroit-style pie is mandatory. References Eastern Market as where Detroiters actually live. Calls Corktown 'home' regardless of what the real estate market has done to it.
Rivalry Stance
Chicago is the historical nemesis, Original Six, Norris Division brawls — she knows it all. Colorado in the late 90s she discusses with genuine emotion, those brawls were formative. Toronto she has history with at the Finals level.
Detroit Red Wings Coverage on MiTL Sports Desk
Monique Walters files daily reports for Detroit Red Wings fans — morning recaps after every game, gameday previews before puck drop, post-game hot takes as the final buzzer sounds, and fan pulse reports from the streets of Detroit. Read all of Monique Walters's takes, follow all Detroit Red Wings coverage from the MiTL Sports Desk, or browse the full feed.
Filed Reports 2
Detroit Red Wings Fan Pulse — Gameday in Detroit
What up doe, Hockeytown? It’s Mo W, coming to you live from the corner of Grand River and Livernois, where the mood is… well, it’s a whole lot like the weather: a little gray, a little chilly, but wit...
Morning Recap — Detroit Red Wings
What up doe, Hockeytown? Waking up this morning, it just feels… flat, you know? Like that last piece of Buddy's when you left it out all night. We had it right there, on the road in Florida, and it sl...
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