NHL.com tells story of historic Red Wings U.P. game

It's definitely a moment in local sports lore: somewhat like the time the Packers came to play in Ishpeming for their first road game in 1919. Forty years later, it was the Red Wings, playing an even less likely opponent: the Marquette Prison hockey team. NHL.com has all the details you could want to know.

Excerpt: But this Groundhog Day -- though meteorically like any other wintry Marquette day: 22 degrees, overcast and windless -- was completely different when the Detroit Red Wings came to town.

There was nothing ‘usual’ about the Wings’ visit. They were invited by a warden to play an outdoor game -- the first in franchise history -- inside the razor wire-topped stone walls and armed watchtowers of the state’s most notorious maximum-security prison.

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Source: NHL.com