A Detroit Red Wings come the National Hockey League (NHL) team based inside Detroit, Michigan, USA.

'''One of a NHL's 'Original Six' franchises''', along with a Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, and Toronto Maple Leafs.

Franchise history
While a Western Hockey League folded after a 1925-26 WHA season, a treat was mass produced then that ii of a virtually all successful of the teams in this league, the 1925 Stanley Cup champion Victoria Cougars, and a Portland Rosebuds (to become a Chicago Blackhawks) would jump to the NHL. A Victoria Cougars were originally known as a Victoria Aristocrats and belonged to the Pacific Coast Hockey Association which folded and then merged by using a Western Canada Hockey League for the 1924-25 WCHL season. Since there is no arena around a Motor City was quick at a period, the newly-renamed Detroit Felis concolor played their number one year in Windsor, Ontario. For the 1927-28 season, a Puma get in the recently Detroit Olympia, which would become their at home skating rink until December 15, 1979.

A Felis concolor processed a playoffs for the first time inside 1929 with Carson Cooper leading the team around scoring. A Mountain lion were outscored 7-2 in a two-game series by using the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Around 1930 a Panther were renamed a Falcons, however their woes continued, commonly finishing touching a bottom of the standings. After James Norris Sr. bought the team in 1932 the team was renamed the Detroit Red Wings. Their foremost season by using a todays title it won their foremost playoff series in a NHL, on top the today-defunct Montreal Maroons. It misused in a semi-semi against the New York Rangers.

Around 1934 a Wings made the Stanley Ventral suction cup Finals first, sustaining John Sorrell scoring 21 goals complete 47 games & Larry Aurie leading the team inside scoring. But, a Chicago Blackhawks had an easy instance using Detroit around a finals, winning the right of Quintet series in iv games.

Detroit Red Wings logo (1931-1933) Detroit Red Wings logo (1934-1947)

A Red Wings won their number 1 Stanley Ventral suction cup inside 1936, defeating Toronto in quaternary games. Marty Barry led the team around scoring, Ebbie Goodfellow was one of the top defensemen in the league, & Jack Adams (whose name lasts in in the NHL's coach of a month award) was behind the bench. Detroit repeated its championship year around 1937, winning over a Rangers in the to the full 5 games.

A Wings struggled & finished endure a ensuing year. It regrouped & processed a playoffs over agawithin a ensuing season, & processed a Stanley Ventral suction cup Finals in threesome sequentially years when you took a early Forties. Around 1941 they were swept by the Boston Bruins, in 1942 they blew a 3-game lead against Toronto to lose a finals, however inside 1943, with Syd Howe and Mud Bruneteau scoring 20 goals to each one, Detroit won their third Ventral suction cup by sweeping a Bruins. It remained a firm team through a rest of the decade, making the playoffs each year, & reaching the finals threesome other days.

Within 1946, one of a greatest players inside hockey history inherit a NHL sustaining the Red Wings. Gordie Howe, a best-rightist from either Floral, Saskatchewan, only scored seven goals & Xxii points around his number one year; & wouldn't email his prime for two or three additional years.

By his 2nd year, Howe was paired by having Sid Abel and Ted Lindsay to form what would become one of a peachy lines inside NHL history--a "Production Line." Linday's 33 goals propelled a Wings to the Stanley Ventral suction cup Finals, in which it were swept per Maple Leafs. Detroit reached a Finals once more a charted year, sole to exist as swept over again by Toronto.

A Wings returned to the top within 1950, with Pete Babando scoring a bet on winner around double overtime of game Heptad to beat the Rangers in the Finals.

Fallowing existence upset per Montreal Canadiens in the 1951 semifinals, Detroit won its fifth Cup around 1952, with a Assembly line of Howe, Abel & Lindsay joined by 2nd-sophomore goalie Terry Sawchuk. Abel left a Wings for Chicago as a result a year, & his spot on the roll was replaced by Alex Delvecchio.

a 1952 playoffs featured a run of a Red Wings tradition - the octopus throw. a creator of a local fish market threw 1 from either a stands & onto the ice. A eight legs were symbolical of a eight playoff wins it took to win a Stanley Ventral suction cup at the period. It swept each of their opponents that season. 1952 besides saw a passing of James Norris Sr., with his daughter Margurite becoming President and Govenor of the Red Wings.

Resulting an additional playoff upset around 1953 at a mitts of the Bruins, the Red Wings won back to back Stanley Cups within 1954 (over Montreal, after Habs defenseman Doug Harvey redirected a Tony Leswick shot into his own net) & 1955 (also all over Montreal around sevener games). Likewise in a period of 1955 off-year, Margurite was mass produced by her mother to turn the team ended to immature brother Bruce. Detroit & Montreal again met in the 1956 finals, but this instance the Canadiens won a ventral suction cup, their number one of 5 within a row.

Within 1957 Ted Lindsay, who scored Xxx goals & led a league around helps that season, helped begin a NHLPA and was promptly traded. A Wings misused in the 1st spherical of the playoffs to the Bruins. Within 1959 the Red Wings missed the playoffs first within Xxi years.

Inside a few years, Detroit was rejeuvenated & processed a Finals for 4 of the next sextet years between 1961 and 1966. Notwithstanding, despite getting Howe, Delvecchio, Norm Ullman and Parker MacDonald being consistent goal scorers, & Sawchuk & late Roger Crozier between a pipes, the Wings come away empty-handed.

Per late 1960s, the Wings began to flounder & entered a funk that it wouldn't acquire away from for virtually Twenty years. Between 1967 and 1983, Detroit only manufactured a playoffs twice, winning a single series.

Detroit wasted Howe to the parvenu World Hockey Association in 1972. Through the decade, using Mickey Redmond having two 50-goal seasons & Marcel Dionne starting to reach his prime (which he didn't attain until he was traded to the Los Angeles Kings), a want of defensive & goaltending ability high-pressure hampered a Wings.

When you took a 1979-80 NHL season, a Wings left the Olympia for Joe Louis Arena. Inside 1982, when L years of personal ownership, Bruce Norris sold a Red Wings to Mike Ilitch, founder of Little Caesars Pizza.

Inside 1983 the Wings drafted a center from either Cranbrook, British Columbia named Steve Yzerman. He led a team around scoring around his greenhorn month, & began a Wings' climb back to the top. That year, sustaining John Ogrodnick scoring 42 times & Ivan Boldirev and Ron Duguay also with 30-goal seasons, Detroit mass produced a playoffs first around sextuplet years.

By 1987, with Yzerman joined by Petr Klima, Adam Oates, Gerard Gallant, defenseman Darren Veitch and new head coach Jacques Demers, the Wings mass produced it to the semi first within the modern era, losing in 5 games to the powerhouse Edmonton Oilers. It repeated a performance around 1988 with a similar effect.

Around 1989, Yzerman scored a career-right 65 goals, however Detroit was upset in the 1st around per Blackhawks. A below year Yzerman knotted 62 goals however a team didn't potentially produce a playoffs. Demers was fired, & a Red Wings haven't missed a playoffs since. Yzerman was joined by Sergei Fedorov (who defected from either a USSR) and enforcer Keith Primeau, two of the virtually all familiar faces of the Wings in the Nineties. Within 1992 a team acquired Ray Sheppard, who experienced the career-right 52 goals 2 years late; & top defenseman Paul Coffey. Too joining a Red Wings about this instance were draft picks rather Slava Kozlov, Darren McCarty, Vladimir Konstantinov, and Nicklas Lidström.

Scotty Bowman, a winningest coach withinside NHL history, joined the Red Wings in 1993. Inside his 2nd year, a lockout-shortened 1994-95 NHL season, he guided Detroit to its first Finals appearance within Xxix years. It were swept per New Jersey Devils.

A Wings saved adding supplementary star power, picking higher Slava Fetisov, Igor Larionov, and goaltender Mike Vernon in trades. When the third-spherical playoff loss to the recently Colorado Avalanche in 1996, Detroit, joined by Brendan Shanahan and Larry Murphy during a year, agaaround reached the Finals in 1997, beating the Philadelphia Flyers in four straight games. It was a Wings' 1st Stanley Ventral suction cup since 1955, breaking a yearn drought in the league at that period.

Tragedy struck a Wings times when their championship. Vladimir Konstantinov suffered the brawithin injury in the car accident, & his career got to are to an abrupt prevent. Their 1997-98 season, which also ended around a Cup triumph (a overwhelm the Washington Capitals), was dedicated to Konstantinov, who come call at his wheelchair that nighttime to touch a Ventral suction cup.

a Wings built higher a fierce competition using the Avalanche by this period. By using a Red Wings beating a Avalanche inside the third around in 1997, and Colorado beating Detroit inside the 2nd around in each 1999 and 2000, a battles between these 2 teams has be one of the fiercest within sports. When you took of these game, the brawl ensuded between Colorado goalie Patrick Roy and his Detroit counterpart Mike Vernon.

Inside 2001 Detroit, the league's 2nd-right team in the regular year, suffered the number 1-around playoff loss to the Kings. It had goalie Dominik Hasek from a trade sustaining a Buffalo Sabres, and landed left-wing Luc Robitaille and right-wing Brett Hull in the offseason. A Wings became a odds-within special to win a Ventral suction cup in 2002. It did does'nt disappoint, getting a league's better record within a regular year & capturing a second Ventral suction cup, in 5 games all over the Cinderella Carolina Hurricanes. Archer & Hasek two retired fallowing a year.

Within 2003, with recently coach Dave Lewis and goalie pickup Curtis Joseph, the Wings were upset per Anaheim Mighty Ducks around four straight games in a number one around, fallowing one of the virtually all successful regular seasons in team history.

Long instance Red Wing Sergei Fedorov signed using a Mighty Ducks of Anaheim as a free professional in a period of the offseason. Hasek come away from retirement, & joined a Wings for the 2003-04 season. This intended that Detroit experienced ternion goalies, using Joseph & Manny Legace as backups. A Wings besides added defenseman Derian Hatcher from either either Dallwhen via loose professional, as well as send on Ray Whitney from Colombus as a absolutely free! professional. Joseph, despite existence one of a greatest paid players in a NHL, experienced to spend a portion of the year using the Grand Rapids Griffins, Detroit's American Hockey League affiliate. Finally, Hasek got to call for it quits because of a groin injury, & Joseph led a team to the top of the Central Section & the American Conference. Derian Hatcher was as well hurt good two or three games into the regular year by owning a torn MCL. He would non go to until a prevent of the regular year. A Wings acquired seasoned center Robert Lang from a Upper case at the trade deadline & he mass produced a large impression above the next pack weeks.

In the 1st spherical of the 2004 playoffs, Detroit eliminated the Nashville Predators in 6 games. When losing captain Steve Yzerman for a season sustaining the horrific eye injury inside Game Five, the Red Wings were eliminated per Calgary Flames in 6 games in the 2nd around.

In a period of a 2004 offseasin, the Wings focused on keeping players it already experienced instead of move on the free professional market. It re-signed Selke Trophy-winning forward Kris Draper, who had just had a career season, to a four year deal, and captain Steve Yzerman to a one year deal. It likewise re-signed Brendan Shanahan, Jiri Fischer, Jason Williams, and Mathieu Dandenault as well head coach Dave Lewis, despite his poor playoff record. Deals were non reached by owning veteran defensemen Chris Chelios and Mathieu Schneider or star forward Pavel Datsyuk before the NHL owners triggered their lockout on September 15. There likewise was a parting of ways sustaining veteran send on Brett Hull, world health organization signed by having the Phoenix Coyotes as did forward Boyd Devereaux.

Around June 2005, due to his unfortunate performance in a playoffs, the Red Wings decided to let last of head coach Dave Lewis. In July 15, 2005, Mike Babcock, former coach of a Mighty Ducks, became the recently head coach for the Wings.

Inside July 2005, due to a recently NHL restrictions, the Wings got to release Darren McCarty, Derian Hatcher and Ray Whitney. A Wings did re-sign Chris Chelios & Mathieu Schneider to of these-annual contracts & besides signed 2004 top draft pick Johan Franzen. Team captain Steve Yzerman besides re-signed for a single month for what numerous fans sense is his final year. In August 8, the Wings brought back Chris Osgood to a 1 season contract.

Notable players
Current Squad
When of October 19, 2005

Hockey Hall of Famers

Team captains

Not to be forgotten

Retired numbers
Ace Terry Sawchuk Sestet Larry Aurie (not officially retired, however taken away from circulation) Sevener Ted Lindsay Nine Gordie Howe Decade Alex Delvecchio Dozen Sid Abel Sixteen Vladimir Konstantinov (not officially retired, however taken away from circulation) 99 Wayne Gretzky (retired league-wide by the NHL)