Wings to retire #91!!!

[oblong]

14 hours ago, buddha said:

but i am happy he is getting his number retired and i will probably tear up a little watching all those old highlights.

the red wings getting the russians together and taking players out of the eastern bloc has been told a number of times now, but its still an amazing story how they did it, and it set the franchise up for a 25 year run that has never been duplicated in the modern post original six era.

unlike the penguins or blackhawks or any other team that has won multiple cups, the wings won with different teams and werent gifted generational players thanks to the lottery gods.  they did it through scouting and development.  as a wings fan, that's a source of pride.  and sergei was a big part of that.

Keith Gave said the story has been sold to Hollywood and supposedly something is in production to tell the story beyond that cool doc made a few years ago.

 

[lordstanley]

3 hours ago, oblong said:

I have a picture somewhere, up close, of the two of them in the car.  I hope I still have it somewhere at least...  She looked all of 16 too... at the time we were wondering who she was.  In my memory it was that event that made people ask the question.  This is pre internet.

 

Here's one published at the time that I remember.