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A Sweet Moment - Detroit Red Wings 1992-1993

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Canes: Playoff heroics 2 decades apart. A big day in Canes history

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Dino’s Goal in Game 1  -  Wings vs Devils  -  June 17, 1995

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Tough Night & Tumbles  -  Wings vs Sharks  -  Jan. 15, 1993

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Somewhere in Ohio  -  Wings @ Whalers  -  Feb. 24, 1994

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Detroit Red Wings 50 Goal Club

Though the Detroit Red Wings have been around since the 1926-27 season, they’ve only had a few 50-goal scorers don the winged wheel – only six, in fact. While the NHL underwent a scoring revolution in the 1970s and 80s, the Red Wings were deep in the midst of their “Dead Wings” era and did...

Via: http://thehockeywriters.com/detroit-red-wings-50-goal-scorers/

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[Source: In the Bin: Reckless & Rude Stories From the Penalty Boxes of the NHL]

Why Ray Sheppard was an MVP.

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Probert, pucks, and the sin bin

In the Ducks' inaugural game, against Detroit, [Lloyd Freeberg]'s first "guest" in the visitors' sin bin was NHL bad boy Bob Probert. Later in the game, Probert was back in the box for fighting. Teammate Ray Sheppard joined him for a minor infraction.

Freeberg was monitoring the penalty clock, which determines how much time a player has left in the box, when he overheard Probert and Sheppard arguing.

"You take them, it was your idea," Sheppard said.

"I don't have any place to put them. You take them," Probert replied. Freeberg looked to see what they were bickering over. Probert was holding six of the opening-night commemorative game pucks he had taken from the ice bucket. Pucks are kept on ice so that they glide better, and part of the penalty box operator's job is to provide linesmen with new pucks.

Probert hadn't figured out how to confiscate them when Freeberg blurted: "Hey, Probie, why don't you just shove them down your pants?"

Probert glared at Freeberg, who thought he was a goner. Freeberg didn't realize why Probert was mad until the next day, when he remembered a newspaper article that detailed how Probert got caught smuggling cocaine from Canada into the United States, an offense that led to jail time. Probert had put the cocaine down his pants.

Sheppard saved the day by laughing. Probert's glare left his face, and he left the box with a smile and his commemorative pucks.

--from Lloyd Freeberg's book, "In the Bin"