After a poor season for Federko in 1988 – 89, he was traded to the Detroit Red Wings with Tony McKegney for future Blues star Adam Oates, and Paul MacLean.

The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan.

, the Red Wings have won the most Stanley Cup championships ( 11 ) of any NHL franchise based in the United States, and are third overall in total NHL championships, behind the Montreal Canadiens ( 24 ) and Toronto Maple Leafs ( 13 ).

The Red Wings are one of the most popular franchises in the NHL, and fans and commentators refer to Detroit and its surrounding areas as " Hockeytown ".

Between the 1933 – 34 and 1965 – 66 seasons, the Red Wings missed the playoffs only four times.

More recently, the Red Wings have made the playoffs in 26 of the last 28 seasons, including the last 21 in a row ( 1991 – 2012 ).

Original Logo of the Detroit Red Wings.

Norris ' first act was to choose a new name for the team – the Red Wings.

" Norris transformed the club's logo into the first version of the Red Wings logo as it is known today.

The Red Wings won their first Stanley Cup in 1936, defeating Toronto in four games.

In 1946, one of the greatest players in hockey history came into the NHL with the Red Wings.

Following another playoff upset in 1953 at the hands of the Bruins, the Red Wings won back to back Stanley Cups in 1954 ( over Montreal, when Habs defenseman Doug Harvey redirected a Tony Leswick shot into his own net ) and 1955 ( also over Montreal in the full seven games ).

In 1959 the Red Wings missed the playoffs for the first time in 21 years.

Only a year after making the Finals, the Red Wings finished a distant fifth, 24 points out of the playoffs.

One factor in the Red Wings ' decline was the end of the old " development " system, which allowed Adams to get young prospects to commit to playing for Detroit as early as their 16th birthday.

A successful college hockey coach, Harkness tried to force his two-way style of play on a veteran Red Wings team resistant to change.

In the " expansion season " of 1967 – 68, the Red Wings also acquired longtime star left-winger Frank Mahovlich from the defending Cup champs in Toronto.

Howe returned to pro hockey shortly after to play with his two sons Mark and Marty Howe ( Mark would later join the Red Wings at the end of his career ) in the upstart World Hockey Association in 1972.

Interior of the Joe Louis Arena, where the Red Wings have played at home since 1979, when they left the Detroit Olympia.

In 1982, after 50 years of family ownership, Bruce Norris sold the Red Wings to Mike Ilitch, founder of Little Caesars Pizza.

Also joining the Red Wings around this time were draft picks like Slava Kozlov, Darren McCarty, Vladimir Konstantinov, and Nicklas Lidstrom.

The Red Wings dedicated the 1997 – 98 season, which also ended in a Stanley Cup victory, to Konstantinov, who came out onto the ice in his wheelchair on victory night to touch the Cup.

With Colorado beating Detroit in the third round in 1996, in the second round of both 1999 and 2000, and the Red Wings beating the Avs in the third round in 1997, the battles between these two teams had become one of the fiercest in the league.

The Red Wings went on to capture another Stanley Cup in five games over the Carolina Hurricanes, with Nicklas Lidstrom winning the Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoffs ' MVP.

Alexander McDonnell, governor of Red River, and James Bird, a chief factor of the Hudson's Bay Company, ordered such `` sundry articles '' to a value of Ab4,500.

In September 1967, the squadron returned to MCAS El Toro and painted the Red Devil insignia on their new McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantoms.

Thomas Douglas, fifth Earl of Selkirk, a noble humanitarian Scot concerned with the plight of the crofters of his native Highlands, conceived a plan to settle them in the valley of the Red River of the North.

He also appeared as himself on The Ed Sullivan Show, Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, The Red Skelton Show, The Merv Griffin Show, The Mike Douglas Show, and guested on Ralph Edwards ' This Is Your Life on February 12, 1961 with honoree Peter Palmer.

The BBC also aired science fiction comedy series such as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( 1981 ) by Douglas Adams and Red Dwarf ( 1988 – 99, 2009 ).

* Les Douglas, former NHL player and winner of the Stanley Cup with the Detroit Red Wings.

Over the next several years, Merman was featured in two films, the successful It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ) and the flop The Art of Love ( 1965 ), and made dozens of television appearances, guesting on variety series hosted by Perry Como, Red Skelton, Judy Garland, Dean Martin, Ed Sullivan, and Carol Burnett, on talk shows with Mike Douglas, Dick Cavett, and Merv Griffin, and in episodes of That Girl, The Lucy Show, Batman, and Tarzan, among others.

* Douglas Fowler ( 1906 – 1980 ), Red River Parish Clerk of Court ( 1940 – 1952 ), mayor of Coushatta ( 1952 – 1954 ), and Commissioner of Elections ( 1959 – 1980 ).

The king appears to have also taken over the conduct of foreign affairs, preserving the peace with Richard II and managing to increase the power of the Red Douglas Earl of Angus in the southeast of the country as a counterbalance to Fife's Black Douglas ally.

Modern swing dance bands active in the U. S. during the 1990s and 2000s include many contemporary jazz big bands, swing revival bands with a national presence such as Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers ( based in San Francisco ), and local / regional jazz bands that specialize in 1930s-1940s swing / Lindy dance music, such as The Swingout Big Band, White Heat Swing Orchestra, and Beantown Swing Orchestra ( Boston ), The Boilermaker Jazz Band ( Pittsburgh ), the Southside Aces ( Minneapolis ), Gordon Webster Septet ( New York ), Jonathan Stout and His Campus Five ( Los Angeles ) and The Jonathan Stout Orchestra featuring Hilary Alexander ( Los Angeles ), The Flat Cats ( Chicago ), The Gina Knight Orchestra ( Chicago and Joliet, IL ), the Solomon Douglas Swingtet and the Tom Cunningham Orchestra ( Washington, D. C .), Sonoran Swing ( Arizona ), and The Bill Elliott Swing Orchestra ( Los Angeles ).

After high school, Douglas played basketball for the Coffeyville Community College Red Ravens in Coffeyville, Kansas from 1977 to 1978 where the seventeen year old was a 6 feet 0 inch Power forward.

The Red River Colony ( or Selkirk Settlement ) was a colonization project set up by Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk in 1811 on of land granted to him by the Hudson's Bay Company under what is referred to as the Selkirk Concession.

They were met by Semple and a group of HBC men and settlers south of Fort Douglas along the Red River at a location known to the English as Seven Oaks, or la Grenouillière ( Frog Plain ) by the Métis.

In 1893, he and his family moved to Red House, Victoria Road, Douglas, which he had designed.

* Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk ( 1771 – 1820 ), founder of the Red River Colony

Capp has appeared as himself on The Ed Sullivan Show, Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, The Today Show, The Red Skelton Show, The Merv Griffin Show, The Mike Douglas Show, and on This Is Your Life on February 12, 1961 with host Ralph Edwards and honoree Peter Palmer.

After this, he was assigned to the Red River Valley area, where he was caught up in the conflict between the North West Company and Thomas Douglas, Lord Selkirk, a controlling shareholder of the Hudson's Bay Company who had established the Red River Colony.

The Alberni Valley's forests consist primarily of Douglas Fir, Hemlock, Yellow Cedar and Western Red Cedar.

Rufus D. Hayes of Baton Rouge became the first insurance commissioner, and Drayton Boucher of Webster Parish was named over voting machines until he was replaced by Douglas Fowler of Red River Parish, when Boucher decided not to run for the office in the 1959-1960 election cycle.

Architecturally, the province takes pride in the work of Douglas Cardinal, whose curved designs lend Red Deer College and other Alberta facilities a distinct flavour.

This genus includes three species, the American Red Squirrel T. hudsonicus, the Douglas Squirrel T. douglasii and Mearns's Squirrel T. mearnsi.

Margaret Whiting was a regular guest on variety shows and talk shows throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, including Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town, when the musical series focused on Whiting's hometown of Detroit ; The Big Record, The Bob Hope Show, The Colgate Comedy Hour, The Tony Martin Show, The David Frost Show, The Ed Sullivan Show, The George Jessel Show, The Guy Mitchell Show, The Jonathan Winters Show, The Merv Griffin Show, The Mike Douglas Show, The Nat King Cole Show, Over Easy, The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, The Patti Page Show, The Red Skelton Hour, The Steve Allen Show, The Ford Show Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford, The Texaco Star Theater, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Virginia Graham Show, and The Voice of Firestone.

The complete list: Doc Ayers ( played through 1921 ); Ray Caldwell ( 1921 ); Stan Coveleski ( 1928 ); Bill Doak ( 1929 ); Phil Douglas ( 1922 ); Red Faber ( 1933 ); Dana Fillingim ( 1925 ); Ray Fisher ( 1920 ); Marv Goodwin ( 1925 ); Dutch Leonard ( 1925 ); Clarence Mitchell ( 1932 ); Jack Quinn ( 1933 ); Allen Russell ( 1925 ); Dick Rudolph ( 1927 ); Urban Shocker ( 1928 ); and Allen Sothoron ( 1926 ).

* Red Hill Douglas County, Oregon