Overview

• Detroit will hold a pregame ceremony at Little Caesars Arena before its Jan. 12 home game against the Carolina Hurricanes to raise Fedorov’s No. 91.
• Team governor and CEO Chris Ilitch phoned Fedorov to share the news, and the club said it will host him and his family as he expressed that he is “extremely grateful.”
• Fedorov becomes the ninth Red Wing to have a number retired, joining franchise icons including Steve Yzerman, Nicklas Lidstrom and Gordie Howe.
• The 13-season Red Wing won three Stanley Cups, captured the 1994 Hart Trophy and two Selke Trophies, and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2015.
• He totaled 1,179 points in 1,248 NHL games, and coverage notes the tribute follows earlier acrimony over a 1998 offer sheet and his 2003 free-agent exit to Anaheim.