- Jan Mursak
Jan Muršak is a major junior ice hockey forward. CHL Import Draft Selection- Saginaw Spirit 1st Round(33rd) 2006 Jan signed a contract with the Detroit Red Wings in April 2007.
- Shawn Matthias
Shawn Matthias is an ice hockey player.
- Steve Yzerman
Stephen Gregory Yzerman (born May 9, 1965, in Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada) is a former professional hockey player who played his entire career with the Detroit Red Wings. Yzerman led the Wings to three Stanley Cup championships (1997, 1998 and 2002). Prior to the 1986-87 season at the age of 21, Yzerman was named captain of the Red Wings and continuously served as captain until his retirement two decades later.
- Henrik Zetterberg
Henrik Zetterberg is a Swedish-born professional hockey player currently playing for the Detroit Red Wings. His natural position is center, but he has mostly played left wing since coming to the NHL in the 2002-03 NHL Season. He wears #40 in Detroit and wore #20 for Timrå IK.
- Justin Abdelkader
Justin Abdelkader (Born February 25, 1987 in Muskegon, Michigan), is a college ice hockey forward for the Michigan State University Spartans of the CCHA.
- Cory Emmerton
Cory Emmerton (born June 1, 1988 in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian ice hockey center. He was drafted by the Detroit Red Wings in the second round, 41st overall, in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft. The 2006-07 season is his third season for the Kingston Frontenacs of the Ontario Hockey League. In the 2005-06 season, he scored 26 goals and added 64 assists.
- Darren McCarty
Darren McCarty (born April 1, 1972 in Burnaby, British Columbia) is a professional ice hockey player. McCarty has been known more for his fists than his scoring ability, taking on the role of the Detroit Red Wings enforcer most of his career, a role in which he won three Stanley Cups in 1997, 1998, and 2002. He grew up in Leamington, Ontario, which is not far from Detroit. He has four children, son Griffin (age 10,) and daughters, Emerson (8,) Avery (6,) and Gracyn (3.)
- Darren Helm
Darren Helm (born January 21, 1987, in St. Andrews, Manitoba) is a Canadian ice hockey player. He is 6 ft tall, weighs 182 lb, shoots left and plays centre on a line with overagers Derek Dorsett and Chris Stevens. He currently plays for the Medicine Hat Tigers of the WHL. Helm was drafted in the fifth round, 132nd overall, by the Detroit Red Wings in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft. Helm played for Canada at the 2007 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.
- Dallas Drake
Dallas Drake (Born - February 4, 1969 in Trail, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger in the National Hockey League who plays for the Detroit Red Wings. Previously, Drake played for the Detroit Red Wings, Winnipeg Jets, Phoenix Coyotes and St. Louis Blues. Drake played his college hockey at Northern Michigan University.
- Martin Lapointe
Martin Lapointe (born 12 September, 1973 in Ville St. Pierre, Quebec, Canada) is a professional ice hockey right winger who currently plays for the Chicago Blackhawks of the NHL. Lapointe was selected 10th overall by the Detroit Red Wings in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft. Lapointe has played in 757 career NHL games as of the last completed NHL season, scoring 148 goals and 165 assists for 313 points. He has also compiled 1,143 career penalty minutes.
- Tyler Haskins
Tyler Haskins (born 5-26-1986 in Madison, Ohio) is a major junior ice hockey centre.
- Mike Knuble
Michael Knuble (born July 4, 1972 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian-born American professional right winger currently playing for the Philadelphia Flyers of the NHL.
- Pavel Datsyuk
Pavel Datsyuk (born July 20 1978, in Sverdlovsk, USSR (now Yekaterinburg, Russia) is a Russian-born professional ice hockey player currently playing for the Detroit Red Wings. He is known for silent, but humble demeanor.
- Tomáš Fleischmann
Tomáš Fleischmann is a professional ice hockey left wing who currently plays for the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League, the minor league affiliate of the Washington Capitals. Originally drafted in 2002 by the Detroit Red Wings, Fleischmann was traded to the Capitals in 2004 in the deal that brought Robert Lang to Detroit. On March 18th, 2007, Fleischmann recorded his first multi-point game of his career.
- Chris Osgood
Chris Osgood (born November 26, 1972 in Peace River, Alberta, Canada) is a professional ice hockey player. Osgood is currently the first backup goaltender for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League behind Dominik Hasek. Osgood has played for Detroit, the New York Islanders, and the St. Louis Blues during his 16-year NHL career.
- Nicklas Lidström
Nicklas Erik Lidström is a Swedish professional ice hockey defenceman who has played his entire National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Detroit Red Wings. In his 15-year tenure, Lidström has won three Stanley Cups, various NHL trophies and has been voted into nine NHL All-Star Games. Representing Sweden, Lidström won the World Championships in 1991. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Lidström was a major factor in Sweden's win over Finland in the finals, …
- Evan McGrath
Evan McGrath (born January 14, 1986 in Oakville, Ontario) is an ice hockey player, currently of the Grand Rapids Griffins of the AHL. He was drafted 128th overall in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft by the Detroit Red Wings, in the 4th round.
- Stefan Liv
Stefan Patryk Liv is a Swedish professional ice hockey goaltender of Polish descent, currently playing for HV71 in the Swedish elite league Elitserien. Liv is originally from Poland but was given to an orphanage in Gdańsk and was later adopted by a Swedish family when he was about two years old. At the time Liv had been given the name "Patryk Śliz", the former has he kept as a middle name.
- Ted Nolan
Ted Nolan (Born - April 7, 1958, on the Garden River Ojibwa First Nation Reserve outside of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada) is the Head Coach of the New York Islanders. Nolan, a retired Canadian professional hockey Left Winger played 3 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins. He also coached for 2 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Buffalo Sabres, …
- Ryan Barnes
Ryan Barnes (born on January 30, 1980, in Dunnville, Ontario), is an ice hockey left winger who most recently played seven games with the Hamilton Bulldogs of the American Hockey League while registering no points and nine penalty minutes. Barnes was drafted in the second round, fifty-fifth overall in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft by the Detroit Red Wings. Barnes played his junior career for three teams in the OHL; the Sudbury Wolves, the Toronto St.
- Mike Sillinger
Mike Sillinger (born June 29, 1971 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a veteran ice hockey player currently with the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League. Sillinger has played for 12 different teams, more than anyone else in NHL history. Over the course of his career he has been traded nine times, also an NHL record.
- Zack Torquato
Zack Torquato (born 8 June 1989 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario) is a major junior ice hockey forward. OHL Priority Selection - Saginaw Spirit 1st Round(3rd) 2005 Torquato was drafted in the sixth round, 178th overall in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft by the Detroit Red Wings.
- Jimmy Howard
Jimmy Howard (born March 26, 1984, in Ogdensburg, New York) is an American professional ice hockey goaltender. Drafted in the 2nd round of the 2003 NHL Entry Draft by the Detroit Red Wings, he currently plays for the Grand Rapids Griffins of the American Hockey League. Jimmy Howard was in net for the Red Wings four times in the 2005-2006 season posting a 1-2-1 record, a GAA of 2.99 and a save percentage of .904. He holds the University of Maine school record for shutouts, …
- Valtteri Filppula
Valtteri Filppula (born March 20, 1984 in Vantaa, Finland) is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward.
- Sergei Fedorov
Sergei Viktorovich Fedorov (Russian:Сергей Викторович Фёдоров, "Sergey Viktorovich Fyodorov"; born December 13 1969 in Pskov, Soviet Union; now Russia) is a professional ice hockey forward and sometimes defenceman who plays for the Columbus Blue Jackets in the National Hockey League.
- Bob Boughner
Bob Boughner (born 8 March 1971 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada) is a retired professional hockey defenceman. He last played for the National Hockey League (NHL)'s Colorado Avalanche. Boughner was drafted by the Detroit Red Wings in the 1989 NHL Entry Draft in the 2nd round as the 32nd overall pick. He has played for the Buffalo Sabres, Nashville Predators, Pittsburgh Penguins, Calgary Flames, Carolina Hurricanes, and Colorado Avalanche.
- Mathieu Dandenault
Mathieu Dandenault plays defense for the Montréal Canadiens of the National Hockey League. He has played for the Detroit Red Wings and the Canadiens in a career that started with the 1995-96 NHL season. After nine seasons with the Red Wings, who drafted him forty-ninth overall in the second round of the 1994 amateur draft, he played for Asiago HC in Italy in 2004-05 (due to the lockout) and upon his return to North America, he signed with the Canadiens, his hometown team.
- Kyle Quincey
Kyle Quincey (born August 12, 1985, in Kitchener, Ontario) is a Canadian ice hockey defenceman with the Detroit Red Wings and their AHL affiliate, the Grand Rapids Griffins.
- Marcel Dionne
Marcel Elphege "Little Beaver" Dionne (born August 3 1951, in Drummondville, Quebec, Canada) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers.
- Jakub Kindl
Jakub Kindl (born February 10, 1987, in Sumperk, Czechoslovakia) is a professional ice hockey player currently playing for the Kitchener Rangers of the OHL. He was drafted 1st (19th overall) by the Detroit Red Wings in the 2005 NHL Draft. In the 2005-2006 season he played in three games for the Grand Rapids Griffins of the AHL. He recorded one assist and two penalty minutes in those games.
- B. J. Young
Jerry Franklin "B.J." Young (born July 23, 1977, in Anchorage, Alaska, USA; died November 30, 2005 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) was a professional ice hockey right wing. He was drafted by the Detroit Red Wings in the sixth round, 157th overall, of the 1997 NHL Entry Draft. After playing five seasons in the Western Hockey League with the Tri-City Americans and Red Deer Rebels, …
- Petr Sýkora
Petr Sýkora is a professional ice hockey player in the National Hockey League, and is the younger brother of former NHL defenseman Michal Sýkora. He was drafted by the Detroit Red Wings in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft in the 3rd round, 76th overall. On July 14, 1998, the Red Wings traded him (along with future considerations and a third-round pick in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft) to the Nashville Predators for Doug Brown.
- Tomas Holmström
Tomas Holmström is a Swedish ice hockey winger, currently with the Detroit Red Wings in NHL.
- Craig Coxe
Craig Coxe (born January 21, 1964 in Chula Vista, California) is a retired American professional ice hockey player. Coxe played in 235 NHL games for 4 NHL franchises. While he is perhaps best known for his skills as an enforcer/fighter, he also is known for having scored the first goal in San Jose Sharks franchise history on October 4, 1991 vs. the Vancouver Canucks.
- Keith Primeau
Keith Primeau (born November 24, 1971, in Toronto, Ontario) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. He is currently an analyst on Comcast SportsNet's Post Game Live, a program which follows every Philadelphia Flyers game. He grew up in the Markham (with Brad May) and Whitby (with Adam Foote) AA minor hockey system along with his younger brother Wayne Primeau, who now plays for the Calgary Flames.
- Mike Wong
Michael Anthony Wong (born January 14, 1955 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) is a retired ice hockey forward who played in 22 games for the Detroit Red Wings. He is also a former Golden Gloves boxing champion. He was drafted 7th (77th overall) in the 1975 NHL Amateur Draft. Wong was born of Chinese, Indian, and Native American decent.
- Niklas Kronwall
Niklas Kronwall, is a Swedish professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for the Detroit Red Wings of the NHL. He is sometimes jokingly referred to as 'Nick Jr' (in reference to fellow Swede and Red Wing Nicklas Lidström). His brother Staffan Kronwall plays for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the NHL.
- Anton Axelsson
Per Roger Anton Axelsson, is a professional Swedish ice hockey player. He is currently a left winger for Timrå IK in the SEL. Anton is the younger brother of Per-Johan Axelsson.
- Jesse Wallin
Jesse Wallin (born March 10, 1978 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan), is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played in 49 career National Hockey League games for the Detroit Red Wings.
- Herb Boxer
Herb Boxer (born June 4, 1947 in Hancock, Michigan, Michigan) is a retired ice hockey winger. Boxer was the first ever American born player drafted to the NHL when he was drafted in the 2nd round (17th overall) by the Detroit Red Wings in the 1968 NHL draft