the red wings moved to joe louis arena on december 27, 1979.
the red wings moved to joe louis arena on december 27, 1979.
when did the red wings move to joe louis arena?
december 27 , 1979
the arena hosted its first event on december 12, 1979: a college basketball game between the university of michigan and the university of detroit. the red wings played their first game at joe louis arena on december 27, 1979, hosting the st. louis blues. the game ended in a 3–2 loss for the red wings. the red wings first win at the arena came on december 30, 1979, where they defeated the new york islanders 4–2. later that season, it hosted the 32nd nhl all-star game on february 5, 1980, which was played before a then-nhl record crowd of 21,002. joe louis arena was the site of the 1987 nhl entry draft, which marked the first nhl entry draft to be held in the united states. in 1980, the arena hosted the republican national convention that nominated ronald reagan as the republican candidate for president of the united states.
joe louis arena
the detroit ambassadors became the detroit jr. wings in 1992 to put them in a state of popularity with the nhl's red wings. the owner of the detroit red wings mike ilitch and the owner of the detroit jr. red wings peter karmanos had an ongoing feud. notably, the jr. red wing and red wings both shared the joe louis arena. the rivalry between ilitch and karmanos boiled over, and the jr. red wings were unceremoniously evicted from the joe louis arena. when karmanos bought the hartford whalers, the team became the detroit whalers, but played out of the tiny oak park arena and the palace of auburn hills, the latter of which could have been an appropriate venue for the nhl whalers. karmanos then had his own arena for his team constructed, compuware arena. in 1997, the detroit whalers became the plymouth whalers, simply because the team played out of plymouth, michigan.
detroit junior red wings