Happy Birthday, Mac

Darren McCarty was born on this day in 1972.

The game-winner in Game Four of the '97 Stanley Cup Final ...

Ever.

America.

A kid with a runny nose and milk money danced up to the tiger and spit in his eye.

Looking for sports heroes?  Teach your kids about Jack O'Callahan: blue-collar, unsung leader.

Miracles.

A bunch of college boys beat the Ruskies on this day in 1980.

Do you believe in miracles?

Golden

Put the golden biscuit in the basket ...

Blast.

What a blast to watch, I'm sure they had a blast playing ...

Different.

Miracle: The Boys of '80 comes out tomorrow.

Our approach to the game was gonna be entirely different ...

Never.

Gears.

Reverberating.

There’s nothing like the sound and feeling of a goal horn reverberating through a raucous hockey arena and we’re excited to debut a new, classic Hockeytown goal horn on Opening Night at Little Caesars Arena,” said Ryan Gustafson, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of Ilitch Sports + Entertainment. “This specific model of goal horn is a distinct part of our identity as Hockeytown, harkening back to Joe Louis Arena and paying homage to legendary performances of the past.”

If you have "sensory sensitivities," why would you want to go to a hockey game? 

22.

George Hainsworth, the first NHL goaltender to record 22 shutouts in one season, was born on this day in 1895.

Hainsworth accomplished the feat in the 1928-1929 season, playing in 44 games.

Hats matter.

Thanks, Dave.

Gears.

Bert.

No joy in Mudville.  Tyler Bertuzzi has been traded to Boston ...

"I've always really loved playing with him and feel like I'm at my best when I play with him," Red Wings center Dylan Larkin told reporters, including Max Bultman of The Athletic, in Detroit on Thursday morning. "But he's going to a team (the Bruins) where they're loading up for war. And there's no one I'd rather have on my team than Tyler Bertuzzi in that situation.

Alive.

In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that. despite the deathly chill of winter, we are alive.

Stephen Leacock

Unrivaled.

Coming soon from ESPN's E:60, Unrivaled: Red Wings v. Avalanche ...

Hockey.

Hockey on the mean streets of Mackinac Island ...

... and on the Straits.

First.

On this night in 1972, the Saginaw Gears Hockey Club played its first game.

Stu Irving, Marcel Comeau, and Denis Desrosiers used to come to my school every year.  They were gods.

Captain.

The Detroit Red Wings have announced their first Michigan-born captain, Hockeytown-native, Dylan Larkin.

CONNECT

Miracle.

On this date in 1980, the United States Olympic hockey team pulled off "The Miracle on Ice," defeating the Soviet Union, 4-3 ...



From Miracle, the all-time greatest sports movie ...

"Again."



"Think that'll get 'em goin'?"



"Great moments are born from great opportunity ..."

Shinny.

There is only one way a boy can be sure to learn to play hockey -- on the pond, on the creek, on a flooded lot. The foundation of hockey isn't really hockey at all. It's shinny, a wild melee of kids batting a puck around, with no rules, no organization - nothing but individual effort to grab and hold the puck.

Lester Patrick