Yes, even the players that were on the team at the time have said we may have won (best case) 4 more cups. Throughout the years, Wings management had terrible relationships with the players until Mr. I came along. It always seemed their best players were traded or moved on. Examples: Ullman, Marcel Dionne who didn't like mgmt, and Gary Unger who was traded because he wore long hair.Between Ted Lindsay's passing and the Red Kelly number retirement in Detroit, both recent events, I'm left wondering about the sense among fans in the early 1960s.
Was there a sense that if Detroit still had Kelly and Lindsay from 1960 to 1964, the Red Wings would have won at least one cup during that span?
I couldn't help but notice that they both ended being traded to other teams because their relationships soured with management during that period.