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The 2008 Stanley Cup champion Red Wings present two jerseys to U.S. President George W. Bush.. The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit.They are members of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL) [1] and are one of the Original Six teams of the league. [2]
They then went on to the Stanley Cup Finals after defeating the Dallas Stars in six games in the conference finals. [170] The Red Wings won the Stanley Cup against the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 6 on June 4, 2008, by the score of 3–2. This was the Red Wings' fourth Stanley Cup in 11 years and their 11th overall in franchise history. [171]
Aaron Downey played in 60 Red Wing games and accrued 123 penalty minutes. Kris Draper joined the Red Wings in 1993. Daniel Cleary was a part of the 2007–08 Stanley Cup Championship team. Henrik Zetterberg has played for the team since 2002. Pavel Datsyuk has won two Stanley Cup championships with Detroit.
The 1949–50 Minneapolis Lakers, who won the NBA Finals, are not counted in the Eastern versus Western champions record above as they played in the Central Division. The first parentheses in the Western champions and Eastern champions columns indicate the teams' playoff seed. The second parentheses indicate the number of times that teams have ...
However, Detroit holds the distinction of being the first city to have NFL champions and NHL champions in the same city in the same year, 1952. Detroit sports fans also previously experienced a similar event in 1935 when the Tigers and Lions both won championships, and the Red Wings won the Stanley Cup in the 1935–36 season, a span of only 6 ...
The history of the Detroit Red Wings begins in 1926, when the franchise began play in the National Hockey League (NHL). The professional ice hockey club was founded as the Detroit Cougars on September 25, 1926, one of three teams to join the NHL in 1926 .
The Red Wings won the 1997 Stanley Cup Finals, their first Stanley Cup since the 1954–55 NHL season. Six days after winning the Stanley Cup, tragedy struck when defenseman Vladimir Konstantinov , defenseman Viacheslav Fetisov , and massage therapist Sergei Mnatsakanov were involved in a limousine accident.
The 1952 Stanley Cup Finals was contested by the Detroit Red Wings and the Montreal Canadiens in the first of the four Detroit-Montreal Finals series of the 1950s. The Canadiens were appearing in their second straight Finals series, while Detroit was returning after winning in 1950. The Red Wings swept the Canadiens, shutting them out twice and ...