Found these buried in my office. 8×10 posters from The Detroit Free Press circa 2002.
November 12, 2025
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The speed at which I stood up and saluted my phone just now…🫡
I’m pretty sure my dad has a lot of these because I remember collecting them with him when I was a kid. I’m going to have to check with him.
I miss those days
The glory days of old!
You win today’s internet!
That UPN50 logo hit me square in the nostalgia
Wondering if anyone else notices that they rarely used any photos of Shanny wearing the red uniform. The reason is because he used the same helmet forever. It faded so bad that it looked like it was a dark pink color. Eventually in his last year or two, someone forced him to wear a new helmet but up until then he had the same bucket since he got here in 95 or 96.
Another tidbit was his goal song was always the Irish Jig. He fucking HATED it and it was always amusing to see his facial expressions when they would play it.
Moreso than having a roster of HOFers, the team had enough universally known nicknames to make a comic book series out of it.
Oh wow, I used to collect those when I was in elementary school. My dad would buy the paper for me after work so I could hang the posters in my room. I ended up having so many of them that I managed to cover half of my wall with them.
Oh man what a blast from the past. I had these all lined up in my bedroom as a kid.
So awesome. I still have a binder full of these. My dad and grandpa would save them for me every week as a kid. One day I’ll put them in frames.
On top of perhaps being the most stacked roster ever on paper, that team had so many players with cool nicknames
Yzerman – The Captain
Lidstrom – The Perfect Human
Hasek – Dominator
Robataille – Lucky Luc
Hull – Golden Brett
Datsyuk – Magic Man
Larionov – Professor
How many teams can say they had 7 guys with fairly recognizable nicknames outside their own team (and that’s excluding Shanny, because imo every team has a million guys whose nicknames are their last name with an -er or -y at the end)
Remember having to rush to beat my brothers in order to get them.
Nike gloves and an TPS stick. 15 year old me on first trip outside of Europe and without mom and dad. The hockey stores in US was another world. Bought both TPS sticks and Eagle gloves.
And damn you Amanda, i still think about you some times.
I have all of them.
What a time in red wings hockey history
Had these on my walls/door in high school (‘02 grad). Hoping they’re still around somewhere. Great memories unlocked!
Those are cool as shit!!!!
Such a stacked line up that season. It wasn’t even fair.
I was gifted a ton of these from family last time I was in Michigan.
Man, what could’ve been with Fischer.
Instead, we had to watch Ericsson all those painful years.
Love these! I’ve got a tote with probably 50-60 of these still in the basement
The good old days. The team I grew up with. Awesome!
Holy crap I haven’t thought about Jiri Fisher in forever
This takes me back. The 2002 season was when I first got into the Red Wings and into playing hockey myself. Hasek was my favorite player back then. I never quite became the next Hasek like I imagined, but I did manage to win a couple of bantam tournaments up in Midland, which is pretty close to the same as winning a Stanley Cup!
Gods, we were strong then.
I remember my dad saving a bunch of these for me when I was a kid. Wish I still had them.
I always like the “artist’s interpretation” of the winged-wheel on Hasek’s helmet.
27 comments
The speed at which I stood up and saluted my phone just now…🫡
I’m pretty sure my dad has a lot of these because I remember collecting them with him when I was a kid. I’m going to have to check with him.
I miss those days
The glory days of old!
You win today’s internet!
That UPN50 logo hit me square in the nostalgia
Wondering if anyone else notices that they rarely used any photos of Shanny wearing the red uniform. The reason is because he used the same helmet forever. It faded so bad that it looked like it was a dark pink color. Eventually in his last year or two, someone forced him to wear a new helmet but up until then he had the same bucket since he got here in 95 or 96.
Another tidbit was his goal song was always the Irish Jig. He fucking HATED it and it was always amusing to see his facial expressions when they would play it.
Moreso than having a roster of HOFers, the team had enough universally known nicknames to make a comic book series out of it.
Oh wow, I used to collect those when I was in elementary school. My dad would buy the paper for me after work so I could hang the posters in my room. I ended up having so many of them that I managed to cover half of my wall with them.
Oh man what a blast from the past. I had these all lined up in my bedroom as a kid.
So awesome. I still have a binder full of these. My dad and grandpa would save them for me every week as a kid. One day I’ll put them in frames.
On top of perhaps being the most stacked roster ever on paper, that team had so many players with cool nicknames
Yzerman – The Captain
Lidstrom – The Perfect Human
Hasek – Dominator
Robataille – Lucky Luc
Hull – Golden Brett
Datsyuk – Magic Man
Larionov – Professor
How many teams can say they had 7 guys with fairly recognizable nicknames outside their own team (and that’s excluding Shanny, because imo every team has a million guys whose nicknames are their last name with an -er or -y at the end)
Remember having to rush to beat my brothers in order to get them.
Nike gloves and an TPS stick. 15 year old me on first trip outside of Europe and without mom and dad. The hockey stores in US was another world. Bought both TPS sticks and Eagle gloves.
And damn you Amanda, i still think about you some times.
I have all of them.
What a time in red wings hockey history
Had these on my walls/door in high school (‘02 grad). Hoping they’re still around somewhere. Great memories unlocked!
Those are cool as shit!!!!
Such a stacked line up that season. It wasn’t even fair.
I was gifted a ton of these from family last time I was in Michigan.
Man, what could’ve been with Fischer.
Instead, we had to watch Ericsson all those painful years.
Love these! I’ve got a tote with probably 50-60 of these still in the basement
The good old days. The team I grew up with. Awesome!
Holy crap I haven’t thought about Jiri Fisher in forever
This takes me back. The 2002 season was when I first got into the Red Wings and into playing hockey myself. Hasek was my favorite player back then. I never quite became the next Hasek like I imagined, but I did manage to win a couple of bantam tournaments up in Midland, which is pretty close to the same as winning a Stanley Cup!
Gods, we were strong then.
I remember my dad saving a bunch of these for me when I was a kid. Wish I still had them.
I always like the “artist’s interpretation” of the winged-wheel on Hasek’s helmet.