Red Wings Beat

25/10/2023

The Seattle Kraken scored a goal just moments after an obvious referee error that should’ve resulted in a penalty shot for the Red Wings, and fans were left absolutely furious. Some are even claiming it's 'one of the most blatant missed calls of all time' 😳

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25/10/2023

Going into the 2003-04 season, Brett Hull signed an endorsement deal with Mission. A bit into the season he decided he wanted to use the Easton Z-Bubble instead of his Mission M-2. What did he do? Well, he spray painted the Easton black, and wrote ”Mission” on it with a Sharpie 😆

24/10/2023

”My worst game ever? It was back in 1998, when Scotty Bowman played me for only one shift. But my wife said it was a really good shift” 😆
– Tomas Holmstrom

22/10/2023

”You know, I don’t want to take anything away from Gretzky by any means, because he was the greatest player in the world, but when it came to being protected, he was pretty pampered out on the ice.
I mean take a guy like Dino Ciccarelli, who scored over 600 goals over his career. Not that many of his goals were breakaways, and what I mean by that is he earned them by doing the dirty work out front. That guy took more abuse than any human I have ever seen, but he would always come back for more. He made his living by the side of the net, and he was constantly being whacked across the arms, chopped behind his legs, cross-checked in the back, punched in the head, and drilled in the stomach.”
– Neal Broten
Source: The Code – The Unwritten Rules of Fighting and Retaliation in the NHL.

19/10/2023

”I’m convinced if Sergei played defense, he could have won a Norris trophy. When he decided that it was time to end a game, he just went end-to-end. Our power play breakout and entry, regardless of what we drew up before the game, was give the puck to Sergei and then get out of his way. He was so talented, so strong”

– Brendan Shanahan

15/10/2023

The smiles on the bench... 😁

14/10/2023

Stevie & Gordie 🙌

13/10/2023

What did Scotty Bowman say to Marc Crawford during Game 4 of the famous 1997 Western Conference finals? "I knew your father before you did. And I don't think he would be too proud of what you're doing right now" 😆

12/10/2023

"So one night we're playing at Joe Louis Arena, and you have to remember: A big part of what I did for the Red Wings involved taking a lot of faceoffs. I took a lot of defensive zone and penalty kill faceoffs, took a lot of faceoffs at the end of the game. And in this game, (linesman Ray Scapinello) kept tossing me out. And I'm looking at him and saying, "Scampy, you can't do this to me."
And he said, "You gotta stop cheating. You gotta stop cheating." And I kind of told him, "I'm not cheating. I'm anticipating the drop, but you gotta drop the puck faster. We gotta work together here." And he kind of smiled a little bit.
So there was a stoppage in play, a commercial break, and (Red wings head coach) Scotty Bowman asked Scampy, "What do you have against Draper? Why do you keep throwing him out? That's what he's gotta do for us." And I was a little worried about the answer that was coming. And Scampy says to Scotty, "I'm going to tell you right now: He's the biggest cheater on faceoffs I've ever had."
Scotty kind of looked at him, and looked at me, and said, "Draper, you're a cheater! He said it! You're a cheater!" And the three of us are going around and around in this conversation, and Scotty's like, "The biggest ever?" And he's asking about all the games Scampy has worked, and Scampy says, "The biggest ever!" And I'm just thinking, "This is not good."
– Kris Draper.
Source: The Score.

11/10/2023

08/10/2023

On this day in 1986, Steve Yzerman was named captain of the Detroit Red Wings 👊

07/10/2023

"Somebody asked me what did I aim for when I was throwing a punch, and I told them 'back in the head'. And they asked me, 'why would you wanna hit the back of the head'? And I said, 'I wanna go through the front, to get to the back'" 👊

– Joey Kocur.

06/10/2023

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03/10/2023

He even broke Gordie Howe's records 👊

02/10/2023

"He (Mike Babcock) tried to healthy scratched me in the outdoor game in Wrigley Field against Chicago because he knew it was my hometown. Just things that were so unnecessary. Kenny Holland and Jim Nill for three days argued with him.
So what Babs ended up doing was he suited up 7 D for the first time ever, first and last time. He suited up 7 D, put Anders Lilja in the lineup. And played me opening shift and then didn’t play me another shift the rest of the game. That was his way of, you know, showing Kenny and now Jim Nill, he’s not going to be told what to do.
Again, and you know it’s funny. I’m sitting there. Second period and my two sons were about 40 feet, you know, sittin on the boards and they’re looking at me going, what’s going on? And I look at them. I tip my glass like you know my cup, to get me a beer. So my two boys were handing me beers the whole game. And then McCrimmon tried to get me to go out there with a minute left to kill a penalty, I said not a chance."
Source: Chris Chelios on the Spittin Chiclets Podcast.

01/10/2023

Finally! 🔥🔥🔥

01/10/2023

Here we go! 👊

30/09/2023

Just a reminder that the Detroit Red Wings drafted Bob Probert, Joey Kocur and Stu Grimson in the same draft 😳

29/09/2023

"When the boys took the Stanley Cup to Big Daddy’s for late-night celebrations, they made sure that I didn’t feel left out of the celebratory drinking from the Cup. When they were finished drinking their fill of beer out of the Cup, one of the players fetched a towel and cleaned out Lord Stanley’s mug obsessively before it was re-filled with Coca-Cola for me."

Source: My Last Fight - The True Story of a Hockey Rock Star
Darren McCarty with Kevin Allen.

27/09/2023

Borje Salming 👊

26/09/2023

Former Detroit Red Wings coach Jacques Demers had asked Bob Probert to quit smoking so many times. But Probert didn’t listen. Demers once again approached him in the locker room, begged him to quit. Probert wasn’t buying it.
Instead, he pulled out a cigarette even as Demers spoke, and lit it with the blowtorch players use to curve their stick blades.

Source: The Chicago Tribune

24/09/2023

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23/09/2023

”One of the craziest events I witnessed during my National Hockey League career was Jeremy Roenick trying to fight Bob Probert as if he fully intended to kick Probie’s ass.
Probert was the scariest fighter in the game, and no skill player would dare challenge the big guy. If you somehow managed to become tangled up with Probert, the only sensible objective was self-preservation. The goal was simply to hang on, to survive until help arrived.
But when I was playing with Roenick on the Chicago Blackhawks, I remember looking up and seeing Roenick throwing punches at Probert like he was Mike Tyson.
The good news for Jeremy was that Probie seemed to find the situation comical. And because Probie didn’t respond with his usual fury, J.R. was spared a beating”
– Chris Chelios.

22/09/2023

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21/09/2023

#19 Days until Opening Night

21/09/2023

”It was an NHL old-timers game in Saskatoon, against a team from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. One of our guys got hit really bad by a young RCMP guy.
Gordie Howe was sitting on our bench and he said to whoever was coaching us, ’Let me go on.’ He jumped on before he heard an answer, and the new turned to the bench and said, ’Watch what’s going to happen.’
Gordie lines up across from the guy for the face-off and drops him with an elbow to the jaw. Knocks him out, cold. And then he skates back to our bench and says, ’Well, he won’t be touching one of our guys again.’”
– Guy Lafleur

20/09/2023

This rivalry was epic 👊

19/09/2023

The 1995-96 Detroit Red Wings finished the regular season with 131 points, twenty-seven ahead of the league’s next best team 🙌