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.

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 Boston Red Stockings won four championships in the five seasons of the new National Association, the first professional league.

After sweeping the Twins once again in the ALCS, the Orioles won the 1970 World Series by defeating the Cincinnati Reds ' Big Red Machine in five games.

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.

Another pennant winner did not come until their championship season of 2005, when the White Sox won their first World Series championship in 88 years, breaking their epochal drought only a year after the Boston Red Sox had broken their slightly shorter but more celebrated " curse.

The next season, he would be dealt to the Boston Red Sox where he won 20 games in 1978 and another 17 in 1979.

The Red Wings won the Presidents ' Trophy with a 58 – 16 – 8 record, earning them 124 points, and secured home ice advantage for the entire playoffs.

After losing the first three games of the series against the Sharks, the Red Wings won three consecutive games to force a Game 7, becoming just the eighth team in NHL history to accomplish the feat ( the Chicago Blackhawks became the seventh team to do so earlier in the 2011 Stanley Cup Playoffs, against the Vancouver Canucks ).

Bench, a 14-time All-Star selection and a two-time National League Most Valuable Player, was a key member of The Big Red Machine, which won six division titles, four National League pennants, and two World Series championships.

The Red Sox won two out of the three games, seizing their first pennant since 1946 with a 92 – 70 record.

* Dallas Drake, Drafted by the Detroit Red Wings and won a Stanley Cup with the Red Wings in 2008.

Led by Russell, Bob Cousy and coach Red Auerbach, Boston won eight straight championships in the NBA from the 1959 – 66.

Most notable was Dennis " Thresh " Fong who won John Carmack's Ferrari 328 at the Microsoft-sponsored Red Annihilation tournament in 1997.

After the successful Russian Revolution ( 1917 ), the quality of spy fiction declined, because the Bolshevik enemy had won the Russian Civil War ( 1917 – 23 ); thus, the inter-war spy story usually concerns combating the Red Menace, which was then perceived as another " clash of civilizations ".

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 ).

In addition to Bobby Thomson and Willie Mays, other memorable members of the Giants teams during the 1950s include: Hall of Fame manager Leo Durocher, coach Herman Franks, Hall of Fame outfielder Monte Irvin, outfielder and runnerup for the 1954 NL batting championship ( won by Willie Mays ) Don Mueller, Hall of Fame knuckleball relief pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm, starting pitchers Larry Jansen, Sal Maglie, Jim Hearn, Marv Grissom, Dave Koslo, Don Liddle, Max Lanier, Rubén Gómez, and Johnny Antonelli, catcher Wes Westrum, catchers Ray Katt and Sal Yvars, shortstop Alvin Dark, third baseman Hank Thompson, first baseman Whitey Lockman, second basemen Davey Williams and Eddie Stanky, outfielder, pitcher Clint Hartung, Hall of Fame second baseman Red Schoendienst and utility players: Bill Rigney, Daryl Spencer, Bobby Hofman, and Dusty Rhodes among others.

In 1996, under new owner John Moores ( a software tycoon who purchased controlling ownership in the team in 1994 from Tom Werner, who subsequently formed a syndicate that purchased the Boston Red Sox ) and team president Larry Lucchino, and with a team managed by former Padres catcher Bruce Bochy ( a member of the 1984 NL championship squad ), the team won the NL West in an exciting race, sweeping the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium in the final series of the regular season.

Ahmad Shah Massoud, known as the " Lion of Panjshir ", had been named " the Afghan who won the Cold War " by the Wall Street Journal and had defeated the Soviet Red Army nine times in north-eastern Afghanistan.

In 2005, the Mud Hens won the International League Governor's Cup Championship against the Indianapolis Indians and again in 2006 against the Rochester Red Wings for their 2nd and 3rd championships.

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.

Williams returned to the Red Sox lineup on May 7, and he hit. 345 with 386 at bats in 117 games, although Bobby Avila, who had hit. 341, won the batting championship.

The Boston Red Sox won the World Series of Major League Baseball in 2004, their first since 1918.