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The Red Wings handily swept the Columbus Blue Jackets, then beat the 8th-seeded Anaheim Ducks in a hard fought seven-game series.
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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.
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When a rebellion in East Germany was harshly suppressed by the Red Army in June 1953, Adenauer took full advantage of the situation and was handily re-elected to a second term as Chancellor.
In retrospect, most people consider the 1986 postseason to be one of the best ( if not the best ) postseasons of all time, as it not only was exciting but also made up for a lackluster regular season, in which the Red Sox, Angels, Mets, and Houston Astros all won their divisions handily.
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Starting in great force late in December, from a line stretching from East Prussia to Budapest, the Red armies had swept two hundred miles across Poland to the Oder, thirty miles from Berlin, and the Upper Danube region was being rapidly overrun, while the Western Allies had not yet occupied all of the left bank of the Rhine.
In the 2007 World Series, the Rockies faced the Boston Red Sox, and were swept in four games ; the first game was 13 – 1, the second game was 2 – 1, the third game was 10 – 5, and the fourth and final game was 4 – 3.
The Reds swept the Pirates in three games to win the 1975 National League Championship Series, and defeated the Boston Red Sox in a memorable seven game World Series.
The A's won the Division again in 1975, but the loss of pitcher Catfish Hunter, baseball's first modern free agent, left them vulnerable, and they were swept in the ALCS by the Boston Red Sox.
The Maple Leafs swept the Red Wings and the Finals match-up was determined.
Despite having home ice advantage, the Flyers were swept in four straight games by the Detroit Red Wings.
In the Western Conference Semifinals the Avalanche were swept by the eventual Stanley Cup champion Detroit Red Wings.
However, they were swept by the Red Wings again, this time in the first round.
They swept the National League Championship Series and then edged the Boston Red Sox in a drama-filled, seven-game World Series.
Prospero and one thousand other nobles have taken refuge in this walled abbey to escape the Red Death, a terrible plague with gruesome symptoms that has swept over the land.
* Collected 12 putouts in the second game of a doubleheader, tying the major league mark, as the Twins swept the Red Sox, 13 – 5 and 9-4.
In 1995, Yzerman led Detroit to its first Stanley Cup finals series since 1966, but the Red Wings were swept by the New Jersey Devils.
In 1946, Sheboygan was swept in the finals by the league's newest member, the powerhouse Rochester Royals, who boasted Hall of Famers Al Cervi, Bob Davies and Red Holzman.
The Red Sox made it to the playoffs, but were swept by the Chicago White Sox in three games.
Facing the ( eventual Stanley Cup Champions ) Detroit Red Wings in the second round, they were swept in four games.
The Phillies captured the NL east crown three years in a row, however, they were swept by Cincinnati's " Big Red Machine " in 1976, and lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers in and.
In the finals, the Capitals were swept by the defending Cup champions, the Detroit Red Wings, with the first three games being decided by one goal.
The Caps were swept in four games by the defending champion Detroit Red Wings.
The strong play of Brodeur and the Devils ' infamous " trap " method made the series lopsided in favour of New Jersey, who swept the Red Wings 4 games to 0 while holding them to only seven goals in four games.
In the opening best-of-5 round of the playoffs, the Angels were swept by the Boston Red Sox, and Guerrero had an odd batting line: just a. 167 average, but six RBIs in three games.
Although Andersen pitched well down the stretch in 1990 ( allowing three runs in 22 innings of relief ), and helped the Red Sox win the AL East division title on the last day of the season, Boston was swept in the American League Championship Series by Oakland, then lost Andersen to free agency.
He recorded saves in all four games as the A's swept the Red Sox in the 1988 AL Championship Series, but he found himself on the wrong end of Kirk Gibson's 1988 World Series home run as the A's lost to the Dodgers in 5 games.
They were, however, unable to reach the World Series as they were swept by Cincinnati's " Big Red Machine " in the 1976 National League Championship Series, and fell to the Los Angeles Dodgers the following two seasons.
In the 1951 – 1952 playoffs, the Red Wings swept both the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Montreal Canadiens, with Sawchuk surrendering five goals in eight games ( for a 0. 67 GAA ), with four shutouts.
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