FEDOROV TO THE RAFTERS - Red Wings Retiring 91 (ft. Max Bultman) - Aug. 19th, 2025
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🗓️ 20 August 2025
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AT LONG LAST - the Detroit Red Wings are retiring the #91 of Hockeytown legend, Sergei Fedorov!
Tune into this special emergency, remote episode of the Winged Wheel Podcast (ft. Max Bultman of The Athletic Detroit) where we discuss the news that Russian Five phenom Sergei Fedorov will finally have his number in the Little Caesars Arena rafters alongside Steve Yzerman, Gordie Howe, Nicklas Lidstrom, Terry Sawchuk, and other Red Wings great.
We discuss why it took so long, how Fedorov's career played out and how his departure left the Ilitch ownership displeased, his play style and how he changed the NHL, his Russian 5 story with Konstantinov, Larionov, Kozlov, and Fetisov, whether players like Pavel Datsyuk, Henrik Zetterberg, Chris Osgood, and Brendan Shanahan could follow, who could don the white skates, and so much more - enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Wingwheel podcast, the number one source for news, analysis and discussion, |
| 0:14.5 | on the Detroit Red Wings, the NHL, and all things hockey. |
| 0:19.2 | Here are your hosts, Ryan Hanna, Brad Criscoe, and Evan Lopsinger. |
| 0:27.6 | Max is right, Brad, you have to open this one. This is your, you've been the retire 91, you've been the Federoff champion for the lifetime of this podcast. |
| 0:40.3 | This is you. |
| 0:41.3 | That's a risky proposition because there's a non-zero chance that if I do a dialogue here, it's |
| 0:47.3 | going to be 13 minutes on his skates alone. |
| 0:50.3 | So I will just start by saying it's about time. |
| 0:57.1 | Brother, don't threaten me with a good time. |
| 0:59.7 | The whole episode should be about those skates. |
| 1:03.0 | We should talk about Sergey Federoff being one of the most underappreciated two-way players of all time last. |
| 1:09.4 | And we should more talk about the fact that he has |
| 1:12.5 | maybe the greatest level of hockey drip in NHL history the style God honestly I mean the |
| 1:21.8 | gif of him at the all-star game got as much usage today as it ever has and it was pretty good. |
| 1:29.8 | I mean, this is, this is a little before my like, I was alive, but I wasn't really like |
| 1:35.4 | locked in for a lot of that era. |
| 1:38.6 | I was very young. |
| 1:40.2 | So it was, it was fun to see some of it come across the timeline and, uh, it's not |
| 1:43.8 | that I've never seen it before, but just in full force. |
| 1:46.6 | It was maximum impact, I would say. |
| 1:49.3 | Like, it was a good reminder of all the videos today. |
| 1:53.1 | You could make a case, a coherent argument. |
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