The Red Wings finally put Sergei Fedorov’s No. 91 into the rafters Monday night as Detroit took on the Hurricanes at Little Caesars Arena. Despite the wait, the franchise pulled out all the stops for its former star who defected from his native Russia to play for the Wings in 1990.
Fedorov came out onto the ice in style, sitting in the passenger seat of a burgundy C4 Corvette, the same car he picked shortly after his defection from Russia to Detroit as Mitch Album wrote in the Detroit Free Press back in ‘94. It only made sense that Fedorov would roll out to see his jersey retired in the same ride:
