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Team Captains and Retired Numbers
 Current Red Wing Legends

Hockey Hall of Famers

  • Sid Abel
  • Scotty Bowman
  • Paul Coffey
  • Alex Delvecchio
  • Marcel Dionne
  • Bill Gadsby
  • Ebbie Goodfellow
  • Gordie Howe
  • Mike Illitch
  • Red Kelly
  • Ted Lindsay
  • Harry Lumley
  • Larry Murphy
  • Marcel Pronovost
  • Bill Quackenbush
  • Terry Sawchuk
  • "Black" Jack Stewart
  • Norm Ullman

Not to be forgotten

  • Gary Bergman
  • Shawn Burr
  • Joe Carveth
  • Tim Cheveldae
  • Steve Chiasson
  • Roger Crozier
  • Sergei Fedorov
  • Val Fonteyne
  • Gerard Gallant
  • Joe Kocur
  • Vyacheslav Kozlov
  • Igor Larionov
  • Nick Libett
  • Carl Liscombe
  • Darren McCarty
  • Johnny Mowers
  • Mike O'Connell
  • John Ogrodnick
  • Marty Pavelich
  • Bob Probert
  • Mickey Redmond
  • Jim Rutherford
  • Greg Stefan
  • Bryan Watson

Team captains

  • Larry Aurie 1932-33
  • Herbie Lewis 1933-34
  • Ebbie Goodfellow 1934-35
  • Doug Young 1935-38
  • Ebbie Goodfellow 1938-41
  • Ebbie Goodfellow & Syd Howe 1941-42
  • Sid Abel 1942-43
  • Mud Bruneteau/Bill Hollett 1943-44
  • Bill Hollett 1944-45
  • Bill Hollett & Sid Abel 1945-46
  • Sid Abel 1946-52
  • Ted Lindsay 1952-56
  • Red Kelly 1956-58
  • Gordie Howe 1958-62
  • Alex Delvecchio 1962-73
  • ***Alex Delvecchio & Nick Libett & Red Berenson & Gary Bergman & Ted Harris & Mickey Redmond & Larry Johnston 1973-74
  • Marcel Dionne 1974-75
  • Danny Grant & Terry Harper 1975-76
  • Danny Grant & Dennis Polonich 1976-77
  • Dan Maloney & Dennis Hextall 1977-78
  • Dennis Hextall & Nick Libett & Paul Woods 1978-79
  • Dale McCourt 1979-80
  • Errol Thompson & Reed Larson 1980-81
  • Reed Larson 1981-82
  • Danny Gare 1982-86
  • Steve Yzerman 1986-

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Retired numbers

  • 1 Terry Sawchuk
  • 6 Larry Aurie (not officially retired, but taken out of circulation)
  • 7 Ted Lindsay
  • 9 Gordie Howe
  • 10 Alex Delvecchio
  • 12 Sid Abel
  • 16 Vladimir Konstantinov (not officially retired, but taken out of circulation)
  • 99 Wayne Gretzky (retired league-wide by the NHL)

***How can a team have seven captains. that seams crazy, who has the captain responsibilitys then.
Current red wing legends
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Currently:
  • Chris Chelios is the oldest player in the NHL. 
  • Steve Yzerman is the current active point leader.
  • Steve Yzerman is 9th in the all-time play-off points leaders(181).
  • Steve Yzerman is also 9th in all time goals in the regular season(678).
  • Steve Yzerman is in 8th in all time assists in the regular season(1040).
  • Chris Chelios is 14th in all time penalty minutes(2695).
  • Chris Osgood is ranked 17th in regualar season goalttender wins(305).

Team Roster

Player
 Number
 Position
Chelios, Chris
 24
 Defense
Cleary, Dan
 11
 Left Wing
Datsyuk, Pavel
 13
 Center
Draper, Kris
 33
 Center
Fischer, Jiri
 2
 Defense
Franzen, Johan
 39
 Center
Holmstrom, Tomas
 96
 Left wing
Kronwall, Niklas
 55
 Defense
Lang, Robert
 20
 Center
Lebda, Brett
 22
 Defense
Lidstrom, Nicklas
 5
 Defense
Lilja, Andreas
 3
 Defense
Maltby, Kirk
 18
 Right Wing
Legace, Manny
 34
 Goalie
Mowers, Mark
 44
 Center
Osgood, Chris
 30
 Goalie
Rivers, Jamie 4
 Defense
Samuelsson, Mikael
 37
 Right Wing
Schneider, Mathieu  
23
 Defense
Shanahan, Brendan
 14
 Right Wing
Williams, Jason
29
 Center
Yzerman, Steve     
 19
 Center
Woolley, Jason 
 15
 Defense
Zetterberg, Henrik
 40
 Left Wing