Hockeytown: Detroit Red Wings 1996-97 NHL Championship Season

Hockeytown: Detroit Red Wings 1996-1997 NHL Championship Season

Overview

After 42 years of being frozen out of the Championship, the 1997 Stanley Cup finally comes home to Hockeytown. Now re-experience every slapshot and body check as you join the Detroit Red Wings in their quest for hockey's most coveted prize. First, re-live the Red Wings' loss to the New Jersey Devils in the 1995 Finals, and their defeat by the Colorado Avalanche during the Western Conference Finals in 1996. See the tables turn in 1997 as they run through their nemesis, the Colorado Avalanche, in the Conference Finals, and go on to sweep the Philadelphia Flyers in front of 20,000 cheering fans at Joe Louis Arena. Watch Conn Smythe playoff MVP Mike Vernon earn shoutouts and frustrate opposing teams. Follow the action as team captain Steve Yzerman, along with Sergei Fedorov, Slava Fetisov, Igor Larionov and Brendan Shanahan, lead the relentless attack to reach the ultimate victory in his 14-year career with the team.