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.

Jim Palmer won the Cy Young Award, but the Orioles lost the division title to the Boston Red Sox and their mega-rookies Fred Lynn and Jim Rice.

After defeating the wild-card Boston Red Sox 3-1 in the Division Series, Cleveland lost the 1998 ALCS in six games to the New York Yankees, who had come into the playoffs with a then-AL record 114 wins in the regular season.

However, they lost to the American League champion Boston Red Sox four games to none.

The Red Wings lost that game 1 – 0, and were eliminated two nights later in Calgary by the same score in overtime.

All four games that the Red Wings lost that series were decided by one goal.

The Red Wings lost Game 7 to the Sharks by a score of 3-2, and were eliminated.

The Red Guards lost the western parts of the town between 4 and 5 April.

The Red Guards lost 1, 000 – 1, 500 soldiers, with a further 11, 000 – 12, 000 captured.

After annexation of Red Ruthenia, Lesser Poland lost its status of the borderland, and both regions created an economic bridge between Poland and the ports of the Black Sea.

At this time, several Polish territorial acquisitions of his father were lost: Upper Lusatia ( also known as Milsko ), part of Lower Lusatia, Red Ruthenia, western and central part of Upper Hungary ( now Slovakia ) and probably Moravia.

Since, they have played in three additional World Series, including a dramatic run in that ended in a Game Seven loss to the Oakland Athletics, a second championship in against the Boston Red Sox that was cited in the Curse of the Bambino, and a Subway Series against their cross-town rivals the New York Yankees in the 2000 World Series which they lost in five games.

They shocked the heavily-favored Cincinnati Reds " Big Red Machine " in the NLCS and pushed the defending World Series Champion Oakland Athletics to a seventh game, but lost.

The Red Army lost millions of men as prisoners and lost much of its pre-war matériel.

Stalin increased mobilization, and by 1 August 1941, despite 46 divisions lost in combat, the Red Army's strength was 401 divisions.

While he has two championship rings with the 1999 – 2000 Yankees, Clemens has also been on the losing end of four World Series ( 1986 Red Sox, 2001 and 2003 Yankees, and 2005 Astros ), which is tied with Tom Glavine and John Smoltz ( who were both on the Braves when they lost the ' 91, ' 92, ' 96 and ' 99 World Series ) for the most among active players.

The strategic value of Red October was not lost upon Ramius.

These events succeed in convincing Soviet observers that the Red October has been lost.

The Red Sox lost in seven games, with Williams going 0-for-4 in the last game.

However, despite being ahead of the Yankees by one game right before the series, the Red Sox lost both games they had to play against the Yankees.

During this campaign Poland re-annexed the Red Strongholds, later called Red Ruthenia, lost by Bolesław I's father in 981.

The Red Army lost over 160, 000 men, either killed or taken POW at the Battle of the Kerch Peninsula.

By now he had composed several works including Estelle et Némorin and Le passage de la mer Rouge ( The Crossing of the Red Sea ) – both now lost – the latter of which convinced Lesueur to take Berlioz on as one of his private pupils.