Episodes

  • Jamie Macoun: Seven Games to Twenty-Two Playoff Games — This Day in Red Wings History

    Jamie Macoun: Seven Games to Twenty-Two Playoff Games — This Day in Red Wings History
    Aug 17 2026
    Jamie Macoun Detroit record for nineteen ninety-seven to ninety-eight starts with seven regular-season games and expands to twenty-two playoff games, two goals, and two assists. Detroit went sixteen and six in that playoff run and won the final series against Washington four games to zero.
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    3 mins
  • Travis Hamonic: Nine Hundred Twenty-Six Games, Twenty-Six in Detroit — This Day in Red Wings History

    Travis Hamonic: Nine Hundred Twenty-Six Games, Twenty-Six in Detroit — This Day in Red Wings History
    Aug 16 2026
    Travis Hamonic career line lists nine hundred twenty-six National Hockey League games through twenty twenty-five to twenty twenty-six, with twenty-six games in Detroit. This archive note keeps to the documented Detroit totals: two assists, two points, and twenty-nine penalty minutes.
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    3 mins
  • Ivan Boldirev's Eighty-Three-Point Surge — This Day in Red Wings History

    Ivan Boldirev's Eighty-Three-Point Surge — This Day in Red Wings History
    Aug 15 2026
    Ivan Boldirev's Detroit record moves from thirty points in thirty-three games to an eighty-three-point All-Star season, then to forty-nine points the year after. This concise archive story stays with what those season lines establish and leaves unsupported explanations aside.
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    2 mins
  • Bill McDougall's 52-Point Ghost, August 10 — This Day in Red Wings History

    Bill McDougall's 52-Point Ghost, August 10 — This Day in Red Wings History
    Aug 11 2026
    Born August tenth, nineteen sixty-six, Bill McDougall was an undrafted scorer Detroit developed at Adirondack, but received only two NHL games with the Red Wings before delivering fifty-two points in sixteen playoff games for Cape Breton's Calder Cup run — marks that still stand.
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    4 mins
  • Brett Hull's Detroit wager: a Cup and goal seven hundred, Aug. 9 — This Day in Red Wings History

    Brett Hull's Detroit wager: a Cup and goal seven hundred, Aug. 9 — This Day in Red Wings History
    Aug 9 2026
    Born August ninth, nineteen sixty-four, Brett Hull was passed over twice before Calgary drafted him; decades later he chose Detroit over richer offers at thirty-seven, wore seventeen out of respect for Vladimir Konstantinov, and scored career goal seven hundred en route to a second Stanley Cup.
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    4 mins
  • Bill Gadsby's Game Seven Cup chance, August eighth — This Day in Red Wings History

    Bill Gadsby's Game Seven Cup chance, August eighth — This Day in Red Wings History
    Aug 8 2026
    Born August eighth, nineteen twenty-seven, in Calgary, Alberta, Hall of Fame defender Bill Gadsby joined Detroit late in a twenty-season career and reached the nineteen sixty-four Stanley Cup Final, where Toronto won the seventh game.
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    4 mins
  • Marcel Dionne, the one that got away, Aug. 3, 1951 -- This Day in Red Wings History

    Marcel Dionne, the one that got away, Aug. 3, 1951 -- This Day in Red Wings History
    Aug 4 2026
    Born on this day in 1951, Marcel Dionne became the best young center Detroit ever drafted -- and the best they ever let go. His scoring records still stand; his Stanley Cup shot never came.
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    3 mins
  • Howie Young's penalty record, the SI cover, and the comeback, Aug. 2, 1937 -- This Day in Red Wings History

    Howie Young's penalty record, the SI cover, and the comeback, Aug. 2, 1937 -- This Day in Red Wings History
    Aug 4 2026
    Born to be the wildest man ever to skate for Detroit, Howie Young set the penalty-minute record, landed on the cover of Sports Illustrated, and fought his way back from the brink -- all part of one wild Red Wings story.
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    3 mins