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.

Red Wings McDonnell Douglas DC-9-51 in 2002

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.

The Indians finished with a 96 – 66 record tied with the Red Sox for best in baseball, their seventh Central Division title in 13 years and their first post-season trip since 2001.

The finished film would feature the voices of Judy Garland, Robert Goulet and Red Buttons as cats in Paris, France.

A healthier Red Wings team finished the 2010 – 11 NHL season with a 47-25-10 record and 104 points to win the Central Division title.

The Giants experienced some hard luck in the early 1910s, losing three straight World Series starting in 1911 to the A's, the Red Sox, and the A's again ( the Giants and the A's both won pennants in 1913 ; two seasons later, both teams finished in eighth place ).

But as the franchise player, Gwynn prevailed as Clark finished his career with the Red Sox.

The ubiquitous Red and Black Sandinista flag was used during the election process along with the pink as it was one of the colours of a campaign that finished its popular appearances with John Lennon's Give Peace a Chance and the Sandinista Hymn " fighting against Yanqui agressors, enemies of humanity.

Williams led the league with 135 runs scored and 37 home runs, and he finished third with 335 total bases, the most home runs, runs scored, and total bases by a Red Sox player since Jimmie Foxx's in 1938 .< ref ><< http :// www. baseball-reference. com / teams / BOS / leaders_bat_50. shtml >></ ref > Williams placed second in MVP voting, with Joe DiMaggio winning with 291 votes to 254 votes on the strength of his record-breaking 56-game hitting streak and large number of RBIs.

For the rest of Williams ' career, the Yankees won eight pennants and five World Series titles, while the Red Sox never finished better than third place.

After being 14 games behind the first-place Red Sox on July 18, the Yankees finished the season in a tie for first place.

They finished with a winning record every year from 1992 – 93 to 2009 – 10, tied with the Detroit Red Wings as the longest such streak of any team in America's four major sports.

He finished junior high school but spent much of his time at the Palace Theater in Red Bank, where doing occasional chores gained him free admission to performances.

The Ducks finished off the Red Wings in game six to advance to their second Stanley Cup Finals.

With the Red Sox battling as part of a four-team pennant race, Yastrzemski hit. 513 ( 23 hits in 44 at bats ) with five home runs and 16 runs batted in over the last two weeks of the season, and finished a mere one game ahead of the Detroit Tigers and Minnesota Twins.

Although he hit but 61 home runs over the next four years ( 1971 through 1974 ) as the Red Sox finished second twice and third twice, he finished in the top 10 in batting, and top three in on base percentage and walks in 1973 and 1974, and led the league in runs scored in 1974.

By 1972 the United Red Army in Japan was finished and the Shigenobu group dependent on the PFLP for financing, training and weaponry.

Red Bay finished runnerup in Football in 1974, & 1976.

In his first season with the Red Sox, he finished in the top ten in the American League in intentional walks ( 11 ), home runs ( 25 ) and RBIs ( 105 ), and won the Lou Gehrig Memorial Award.

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The Boston Red Sox finished second to Connie Mack ’ s Philadelphia A ’ s, who were led by their formidable pitching trio of Jack Coombs, Chief Bender and Eddie Plank, the following two years.

* In 1948, the Red Sox finished the regular season tied for first place, only to lose the pennant to the Cleveland Indians in the major leagues ' first-ever one-game playoff.

In 20 starts as a two-year-old Abercrombie won seven times and finished second and third three times each, earning $ 49, 379 ; his fastest time that season was 1: 56 at The Red Mile.

The Red Jackets finished in the " red " financially, but not far from breaking even, primarily because they played three games with the Chicago Bears that season.