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.