Detroit Red Wings Tickets

The Detroit Red Wings are one of the NHL's original six teams and were formed in the fall of 1926 when a Detroit based syndicate bought into the National Hockey League for a sum of $100,000, with players from the Victoria Cougars of the Western Hockey League. They started off by naming the team the Detroit Cougars and actually played their first season across the river in Windsor, Ontario. Despite the success of the Cougars when they were in the WHL, the new NHL team struggled for the first couple of season and finished out of the playoff race. In 1927 they moved to the new Olympia arena in Detroit and hired Jack Adams, who would go on to be their general manager for thirty five years. In 1930 the team changed its name to the Falcons, but in 1932 after being purchased by industrialist Jim Norris the name was changed for the third time in six years. The 'winged wheel' in their crest represented the predominant industry in the area and the Red Wings were officially born. Detroit only made it to the NHL playoffs twice in its first seven season, both times losing in the first round.