Detroit Red Wings

In Hockey Town, there's only one team to root for -- the Detroit Red Wings. The team currently resides just a luxury sedan or limo ride away at Joe Louis Arena, located in downtown Detroit. Here are some team historical highlights: 1920s - The Red Wings go all the way back to the old Western Hockey League, when the Victoria (British Columbia) Cougars were sold to a group from Detroit on September 25, 1926. The team played its home games in Windsor, Ontario. The Victoria Cougars had won the Stanley

The tone of the famous song by Queen- “We are the Champions” still rings in my ears. As defending champions, the Detroit Red Wings had plenty of motivation to win a second straight title. The Washington Capitals will battle the Detroit Red Wings for the Stanley Cup. My emotions were running high back on June 16th, 1998 during game four of the Championship Finals. Watching this game with my father will easily go down as my greatest game. Just before the game started at Verizon Center in Washington

The Detroit Red Wings eventually took home their first Stanley Cup in franchise history in 1936. However, to get there they would have to endure the longest game in NHL history. The Wings skated against the Montreal Maroons in the 1936 semi-finals. The Maroons hosted the opening game at the legendary Montreal Forum. This would be one for the ages. The two goalkeepers who started the game couldn’t have imagined they would tend to the nets for 176 minutes and 30 seconds. Each team tried to impose

Large cities like Detroit, Philadelphia, or Atlanta attract inhabitants and tourists for a variety of different reasons. Millennials who are moving to cities are looking for stable job markets, quality housing options, strong and safe city communities, but central to their search is a sense of pride in the city. Cities are able to boast their pride through many opportunities, but the largest and most recurring opportunity happens to be professional sports. Without making a sweeping generalization

Panthers in the Atlantic division bracket. The best part? Their rivals, the New York Rangers, will have a lot to say in which bracket the Islanders find themselves in. If the Rangers pick up two points of any kind in their game against the Detroit Red WIngs (12:30pm), the Islanders would need to win three of their final four points to finish ahead of the Rangers and meet the Penguins. If the Rangers lose in overtime or a shootout, the Isles would need two of four points to play the Penguins.

but he brought other things to the game that made it clear he was a high caliber player as is shown with the following quote. (The Captain). Yzermans NHL career started off hot with him being chosen 4th overall by the Detroit Red Wings in the 1983 draft. He came to the red wings as a last hope to get there franchise turned around and get

The Chicago Blackhawks are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). They have won four Stanley Cup Championships and fourteen division titles since their founding in 1926. Since 1994, the Blackhawks have played their home games at the United Center afterhaving spent 65 years playing at Chicago Stadium.Currently, they are the defending Stanley Cup champions,having

Rookie of the Year and helping the Devils reach the Eastern Conference Finals in the playoffs. The following season, he anchored the team's run to the Stanley Cup championship, allowing just seven goals in the Devils' four-game sweep of the Detroit Red Wings. Brodeur soon cemented his place among the elite players in the NHL. In 1996, he earned his first of 10 All-Star selections and won his first of five Jennings

Another one of the most influential hockey players of all time is Bobby Orr. Orr was born in 1948 in Parry Sound, Canada (Orr). Bucko McDonald, a former NHL defenseman in the 30's and 40's, coached the young Bobby. He believed he could be a great defenseman with lots of speed and high stick skills as well. This turned out to be one of the beet moves for Bobby's career, as Orr played ten seasons in the NHL. He played nine years with the Bruins, and his final year in Chicago. He wished to play longer

In Praise of Bill Peters Now firmly into his third season as a head coach in the NHL, Bill Peters, coach of the Carolina Hurricanes, has a lot of work in front of him to get this team into post-season contention. Through his first two years with the organization, Peters is still yet to participate in the playoffs. In fact, it has been seven years since Carolina last saw the playoffs. Peters ' current lack of post-season success shouldn 't be an immediate point for concern, as he came into the team