Detroit Red Wings

Every NHL player the encyclopedia attributes to the Detroit Red Wingsfrom profile season records, grouped by position, first season to last. Coverage follows the encyclopedia’s per-era source depth.

Every position room Detroit Red Wings has passed down, steadiest first. The G room is their most stable — 17 holders across 93 years, a new one every 5.5 on average.

1. G17 holders · 16 handoffs · 1933–2025 · one every 5.5y
   John Ross Roach1933–1935→Normie Smith1935–1945→Johnny Mowers1941–1947→Terry Sawchuk1950–1969→Roger Crozier1964–1970→Roy Edwards1968–1974→Jim Rutherford1971–1983→Greg Stefan1982–1990→Glen Hanlon1987–1991→Tim Cheveldae1989–1994→Chris Osgood1994–2011→Mike Vernon1995–1997→Manny Legace2000–2006→Dominik Hasek2002–2008→Curtis Joseph2003–2004→Jimmy Howard2006–2020→Petr Mrazek2013–2025
2. RW24 holders · 23 handoffs · 1933–2026 · one every 3.9y
   Larry Aurie1933–1939→Mud Bruneteau1936–1946→Joe Carveth1941–1951→Gordie Howe1947–1971→Mickey Redmond1971–1976→Joey Kocur1985–1999→Petr Klima1986–1999→Dave Barr1987–1991→Ray Sheppard1992–1996→Martin Lapointe1992–2001→Dino Ciccarelli1993–1996→Dallas Drake1993–2008→Darren McCarty1994–2009→Doug Brown1995–2001→Mathieu Dandenault1996–2004→Brett Hull2002–2004→Jiri Hudler2004–2012→Mikael Samuelsson2006–2014→Daniel Cleary2006–2015→Johan Franzen2006–2016→Todd Bertuzzi2007–2014→Gustav Nyquist2012–2019→Anthony Mantha2016–2021→Alex DeBrincat2024–2026
3. D23 holders · 22 handoffs · 1948–2026 · one every 3.4y
   Red Kelly1948–1960→Marcel Pronovost1950–1965→Bob Goldham1951–1956→Warren Godfrey1956–1968→Gary Bergman1965–1975→Bryan Watson1966–1977→Reed Larson1977–1986→Willie Huber1979–1983→Rick Zombo1985–1992→Steve Chiasson1987–1994→Vladimir Konstantinov1992–1997→Nicklas Lidstrom1992–2012→Paul Coffey1993–1996→Larry Murphy1997–2001→Chris Chelios1999–2009→Mathieu Schneider2003–2007→Niklas Kronwall2004–2019→Kyle Quincey2006–2016→Brian Rafalski2008–2011→Jonathan Ericsson2008–2020→Danny DeKeyser2013–2022→Mike Green2016–2020→Moritz Seider2022–2026
4. C39 holders · 38 handoffs · 1933–2026 · one every 2.4y
   Ebbie Goodfellow1933–1943→Syd Howe1935–1946→Marty Barry1936–1939→Sid Abel1939–1952→Jim McFadden1947–1951→Metro Prystai1951–1958→Alex Delvecchio1951–1974→Dutch Reibel1954–1958→Norm Ullman1956–1968→Parker MacDonald1961–1967→Bruce MacGregor1961–1971→Peter Mahovlich1966–1981→Red Berenson1971–1975→Marcel Dionne1972–1975→Walt McKechnie1975–1983→Dale McCourt1978–1982→Vaclav Nedomansky1978–1982→Andre St. Laurent1978–1984→Paul Woods1978–1984→Kelly Kisio1983–1986→Steve Yzerman1984–2006→Adam Oates1986–1989→Jimmy Carson1990–1993→Keith Primeau1991–1996→Sergei Fedorov1991–2003→Kevin Miller1991–2004→Kris Draper1994–2011→Igor Larionov1996–2003→Jason Williams2001–2010→Pavel Datsyuk2002–2016→Henrik Zetterberg2003–2018→Valtteri Filppula2006–2021→Darren Helm2008–2021→Riley Sheahan2012–2018→Luke Glendening2014–2021→Andreas Athanasiou2016–2020→Dylan Larkin2016–2026→Michael Rasmussen2019–2026→Andrew Copp2023–2026
5. LW40 holders · 39 handoffs · 1933–2026 · one every 2.4y
   John Sorrell1933–1938→Herbie Lewis1933–1939→Carl Liscombe1938–1946→Don Grosso1939–1945→Adam Brown1942–1947→Ted Lindsay1945–1965→Pete Horeck1947–1949→Marty Pavelich1948–1957→Johnny Wilson1950–1959→Vic Stasiuk1951–1963→Tony Leswick1952–1958→Billy Dea1957–1971→Val Fonteyne1960–1967→Paul Henderson1963–1968→Dean Prentice1966–1969→Ab McDonald1966–1972→Frank Mahovlich1968–1971→Nick Libett1968–1979→Tim Ecclestone1971–1974→Danny Grant1975–1978→Bill Lochead1975–1979→Errol Thompson1978–1981→Dan Labraaten1979–1981→John Ogrodnick1980–1993→Gerard Gallant1985–1993→Shawn Burr1985–1995→Bob Probert1986–1994→Paul Ysebaert1991–1993→Vyacheslav Kozlov1992–2001→Kirk Maltby1996–2010→Brendan Shanahan1997–2006→Tomas Holmstrom1997–2012→Luc Robitaille2002–2003→Justin Abdelkader2008–2020→Drew Miller2010–2017→Tomas Tatar2011–2018→Tyler Bertuzzi2017–2023→Lucas Raymond2022–2026→David Perron2023–2026→J.T. Compher2024–2026

Room tenures, not starting jobs — the corpus has no per-season depth chart, so holders can overlap (a successor often arrives before his predecessor leaves) and the measure is how often the room changed hands. A holder is a player who produced real value for this club during his years here, which is what separates holding the room from being on the roster. Detected from per-season VAL (1933–2026 here; league coverage is complete from 1999) — rooms the corpus cannot value are not shown.