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Goaltenders

30 Chris Osgood
31 Joey MacDonald
39 Dominik Hasek


Defensemen

2 Jirí Fischer
3 Andreas Lilja
5 Nicklas Lidström
22 Brett Lebda
23 Mathieu Schneider
24 Chris Chelios
55 Niklas Kronwall
95 Danny Markov




Forwards

11 Dan Cleary
13 Pavel Datsyuk
18 Kirk Maltby
20 Robert Lang
26 Jirí Hudler
28 Tomás Kopecký
29 Jason Williams
33 Kris Draper
37 Mikael Samuelsson
40 Henrik Zetterberg
51 Valtteri Filppula
93 Johan Franzén
96 Tomas Holmström

The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan, USA. They play in the National Hockey League (NHL).



In June 2005, the Red Wings decided to let go of head coach Dave Lewis. On July 15, 2005, Mike Babcock, former bench boss in Anaheim, became the new head coach for the Wings.

The Detroit Red Wings opened the 2006 Stanley Cup Playoffs against the Edmonton Oilers with a 3-2 overtime victory at Joe Louis Arena. The Cinderella-story Oilers went on to win Games 2 and 3 to take a 2-1 series lead. The Wings rebounded in Game 4 with a 4-2 win at Rexall Place, but fell in Game 5 by a score of 3-2, putting the Wings in a must-win situation. They lost Game 6 by the score of 4-3, despite leading 2-0 after two periods, and the Red Wings were eliminated from the playoffs (joining the New Jersey Devils as the second team to ever lose twice in the first round as the #1 seed since the NHL went to a 7-game format in all rounds). The Oilers would go on, as the #8 seed in the Western Conference, to lose the Stanley Cup Final against the Carolina Hurricanes.

On August 30, the Wings announced the number 19 worn by former Captain Steve Yzerman would be retired on January 2, 2007 before a game against the Anaheim Ducks. Then, as an additional showing of just how much Yzerman meant to the organization, he was named vice-president of the Detroit Red Wings on September 25, 2006.

The Red Wings opened the 2006-07 season with a 3-1 loss at home against the Vancouver Canucks on October 5, 2006. At the beginning of the game, Steve Yzerman "passed the torch" to Nicklas Lidström when Lidström was named Captain for the 2006-07 season.

The Red Wings hold the longest current playoff streak of all professional North American sports teams, at 15 consecutive seasons.