The Detroit Red Wings are about to miss the playoff for the first time since 1990, and their beloved—and beery—arena is closing its doors. Take a tour and hear the tales Joe Louis Arena has to tell.
The Montreal Arena housed 7,000 hockey fans as the home of the NHL's Canadiens and Wanderers in the league's inaugural, before a blaze sent it all up in smoke.
Things came to a screeching halt in the 1919 Stanley Cup Final between the Seattle Metropolitans and the Montreal Canadiens when the flu decimated Habs' roster and eventually claimed the life of one of its players.
Today, the NHL All-Star Game is a weekend-long celebration, but its origins stem from am ugly on-ice incident that almost claimed the life of one of its stars in 1933.
From Gary Smith's profile of the irascible Mike Keenan to E.M. Swift's dispatch on Wayne Gretzky's final game, these are the 10 greatest hockey stories in SI history.
In choosing the great single-season team panelists were usually able to focus attention on a particularly outstanding team within a dynasty, even though lesser editions did draw the occasional stray vote.