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The Avalanche–Red Wings brawl was a large-scale on-ice melee that occurred March 26, 1997, at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, between two National Hockey League (NHL) rivals: the Colorado Avalanche and Detroit Red Wings. The brawl, which has been nicknamed Bloody Wednesday, Fight Night at the Joe and Brawl in Hockeytown, [1] stemmed from a ...
Kirk Maltby says Darren McCarty wouldn't have finished the March 26, 1997, Detroit Red Wings-Colorado Avalanche game under today's NHL rules.
The Avalanche–Red Wings rivalry is a historic rivalry in the National Hockey League (NHL) between the Colorado Avalanche and Detroit Red Wings.The rivalry gained notoriety during the mid-1990s and early 2000s, with the peak of the rivalry occurring from 1996 to 2002 during which stretch the two teams met in the postseason five times and combined to win five Stanley Cups, with the Red Wings ...
Book excerpt from “Stanleytown 25 Years Later" on Fight Night at the Joe, when Darren McCarty and Detroit Red Wings bloodied Colorado Avalanche
One of McCarty's most infamous moments was in the famous "Fight Night at the Joe" on March 26, 1997, where a massive brawl broke out between the Colorado Avalanche and Red Wings. McCarty stunned Avalanche right winger Claude Lemieux with a blistering punch and continued punching Lemieux while Lemieux "turtled" his body to avoid damage. The ...
Celebrating the Detroit Red Wings' 25-year anniversary of their 1997 march through the Stanley Cup playoffs to end their championship drought
On February 8, 1997, coach Scotty Bowman achieved his 1000th victory as an NHL head coach against his previous team, the Pittsburgh Penguins. On March 26, 1997, the Red Wings–Avalanche brawl continued to fuel the rivalry between the teams. Detroit won that game 6–5 in overtime.
A year after Claude Lemieux's hit on Kris Draper, bitter enemies Avalanche & Red Wings embarked on another series to settle who'd play for Stanley Cup Road to Stanleytown: 1997 Detroit Red Wings ...