Charles A. Hughes where they played in the National Hockey League as the Detroit Cougars. In 1927, on the advice of NHL President Frank Calder, Hughes hired Jack Adams as coach and general manager of the team. Adams would stay on as GM of the Cougars, later Falcons and Red Wings, until 1963. History of the Detroit Red Wings Charles A. Hughes Charles A. Hughes was a Detroit businessman and ice hockey executive. He was one of the founders of the Detroit Cougars of the National Hockey League (NHL) in 1926. The team would later change its name to the Falcons, and then
Jack (given name) of the word is linked to the name being used as a by-name for a man. Jack (given name) Jack is a male given name. In recent decades, Jack has become one of the most common names for boys in many English-speaking countries. While Jack is now a proper name in its own right, in English; it was traditionally used as a diminutive form of John. It can also be used as a diminutive for: Jacob, Jason, Jonathan, Johann, Johannes, Joachim and sometimes for James, from its French form Jacques. It is also used as a female given name (often