I’ve been a Red Wings fan since I was pushed out the womb. I’m 33 now. I’m from Omaha Nebraska and played AAA growing up. When I was in 6th grade my team got the pleasure of going to Detroit for a tournament. The championship game was at the Joe and since we were the #1 seed, we also got to use the Wings locker room! I also have a pic of me in the locker room and I used Chris Chelios’ locker. We won the tournament and national championship! Here’s a pic of me absolutely laying someone out at center ice!
Also, I’ve seen the Wings play the Avs numerous times, but in Denver. (Me and my dad are the only Wings fans in my family, everyone else are Avs fans and my brother switched to being a Pens fan) BUT I’ll be seeing the Wings play on home ice for the first time on October 10th when they play the Pens! I still terribly miss the Joe and will miss it even more once I’m back in Detroit, but I can’t wait to see what the LCA looks like in person!
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You speak well for a child.
little Caesars ran the youth hockey leagues here and had a AAA program as well. The Little caesars league championships were held at the joe in got to play there 3 times we won 2 of em they were such great memories.
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Interference, two minutes
Kronwall’d his ass 😎
Nice hit! I played 2 championship games there but lost both. Kissed the Hockeytown logo though, it was nice.
Why do we need Trouba when we have this guy just waiting to be picked up?
Was that the CCHA youth tournament by any chance? 31 here and remember playing in that a ton, then watching awesome college at night. We never played at the Joe though, we were always knocked out way before that 😂
Close enough, welcome home Jacob Trouba
Hell yes
That’s rad! I still have a puck from nearly 20 years ago that has “I scored a goal at Joe Louis Arena” inscribed on it. It’s funny because I wasn’t much of a goal scorer in youth hockey, but I rose to the occasion for that game.
That’s epic!