egroen 384 Report post Posted February 16, 2009 (edited) Best DRW Club: 1951-52 70G: 44W-14L-12T - 100 points in the regular season, 2nd time in Club history - winning percentage of 0.714; second highest in DRW history, in pre-expansion era (prior to 1967-68) - a 1-2 finish in League scoring: Howe & Lindsay - Terry Sawchuk plays in all 70 games, recording 12 shutouts (11W & 1T) and posting a GAA of 1.90 - 22 1-goal game record: 13W-9L - 19 2-goal game record: 16W-3L - 14 shutout game record: 11W-2L-1T - in their 14 losses, they are outscored by a total of only 22 goals. But it's what they did in the playoffs that sets them apart from the rest: - a 4-game sweep of Toronto in the Semi-Finals - a 4-game sweep of Montreal in the Finals, to win their 5th Stanley Cup - first time 2 sweeps win the Cup in League history - 2 1-goal wins - 2 2-goal wins - 4 wins by 3 or more goals - one of the greatest goaltending performances in Stanley Cup history, as Terry Sawchuk gives up only 5 goals for a GAA of 0.63 and registers 4 shutouts, all in home games. Nice pick - That year Howe, Sawchuk and Kelly were all unanimous selections for the 1st Team All Star in their posistions (Kelly would have had the Norris and Sawchuk the Vezina (as we know it nowadays) that year) and Lindsay was the 1st Team All Star at left wing. Sid Abel was also 8th in the league in scoring that year. All told, the Wings' hardware would look like this: Hart: Howe (I'd imagine the Pearson as well) Art Ross : Howe (Lindsay runner-up) Maurice Richard: Howe Norris: Kelly Vezina: Sawchuk Selke: Marty Pavelich Jennings: Sawchuk (by himself) Lady Byng: Kelly was the runner-up 1st Team All Stars: Howe RW Lindsay LW Kelly D Sawchuk G Edited February 16, 2009 by egroen Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Barrie 900 Report post Posted February 16, 2009 (edited) Yes the greatest Red Wings team of all-time was 1951-52. Edit: And I think the 2007-08 would be to much for 2001-02 to handle in a best of 7 series. Last year's squad was to quick for their opponents. Edited February 16, 2009 by Barrie Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dabura 12,232 Report post Posted February 16, 2009 The '77 Habs are fairly unanimously the greatest team ever assembled. Absolutely. For the record, my "untouchable" comment was made strictly in reference to the Wings. We've had some damngood teams the past few years, but it's hard to beat 2002, except maybe with one of the teams from the 1950s. I was watching some tapes from the '02 season the other day. That team absolutely oozed talent. It was just plain sick. Now, having said that, what some of these Babcock teams haven't owned in terms of raw talent, they've made up for with work ethic, hunger, grit, "sandpaper," etc. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pjgj13 30 Report post Posted February 16, 2009 I am surprised nobody mentioned the 95-06 Wings squad. True, they did not win the cup but they dominated the entire regular season. They had 2 win streaks of 9 games and probably longer unbeaten (with ties). Set a record for wins, outscored their opponent by 144 goals, set a record for largest divisional win and largest point difference over 2nd overall. Even the 94-95 team was pretty damn good. Prorated over 82 games (48 game lockout shortened season) their record would have been 56-19-8 for 120 points and 308-200 goals scored/allowed. They were about as close to a 4-peat if it wasn't for their inability to score on NJ (in 95) or stopping the Avs (in 96). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cusimano_brothers 1,655 Report post Posted February 16, 2009 Streaks of the 1951-52 Club; 70 game schedule Winning Streaks 6 games - 1 5 games - 1 4 games - 2 3 games - 5 2 games - 2 1 game - 6. Losing streaks 2 games - 1 1 game - 12 Tieing streaks 4 games - 1 1 game - 8 Unbeaten streaks 11 games - 1 10 games - 2 5 games - 2 3 games - 2 2 games - 2 1 game - 1 Winless Streaks 3 games - 2 2 games - 3 1 game - 7. In the official photo of the Club for 1951-52, the backup goaltender is: Bill Tibbs. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
up2here 41 Report post Posted February 16, 2009 1983-84 Oilers get my vote: 446 goals for (A record that may never be broken) 119 points Stanley Cup in 5 games over the Islanders 7 players on the All Star team that year 6 eventual Hall of Famers Gretzky won the scoring title by 80 points that year over Coffey who was second. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
