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2002–03 Detroit Red Wings season

Sports season

Field	Value
League	NHL
Season	2002–03
year	2002
Team	Detroit Red Wings
Conference	Western
ConferenceRank	2nd
Division	Central
DivisionRank	1st
Record	48–20–10–4
HomeRecord	28–6–5–2
RoadRecord	20–14–5–2
GoalsFor	269
GoalsAgainst	203
GeneralManager	Ken Holland
Coach	Dave Lewis
Captain	Steve Yzerman
AltCaptain	Nicklas Lidstrom
Brendan Shanahan
Arena	Joe Louis Arena
Attendance	20,058 (100%)
MinorLeague	Grand Rapids Griffins
Toledo Storm
GoalsLeader	Brett Hull (37)
AssistsLeader	Sergei Fedorov (47)
PointsLeader	Sergei Fedorov (83)
PlusMinusLeader	Nicklas Lidstrom (40)
PIMLeader	Darren McCarty (138)
WinsLeader	Curtis Joseph (34)
GAALeader	Manny Legace (2.18)
DivisionWin	Yes

Brendan Shanahan Toledo Storm

The 2002–03 Detroit Red Wings season was the 77th National Hockey League season in Detroit, Michigan. The Red Wings scored 110 points, winning the Central Division, but just one point behind the Dallas Stars for the Western Conference's first seed.

Coming off their latest Stanley Cup victory, the Red Wings started looking towards the future. Dominik Hasek and Scotty Bowman had retired over the summer and captain Steve Yzerman was out for the first 66 games of the regular season. The weight of the team fell on Sergei Fedorov and veteran Brett Hull, who helped the Red Wings score the most goals of any team in the regular season. As newly acquired goaltender Curtis Joseph held steady in net, two more pieces of the Stanley Cup team would be traded over the course of the year. Maxim Kuznetsov and Sean Avery left in a trade for the Los Angeles Kings' Mathieu Schneider right before the trade deadline in an effort to push the Wings towards the playoffs. However, the moves did not come to complete fruition, as the Wings entered the 2003 playoffs by finding themselves pitted against the seventh-seeded Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. The Mighty Ducks shocked the hockey world when they swept the Red Wings in four games en route to their first ever Stanley Cup Finals appearance.

Three Red Wings were named to the roster for the 2003 All-Star Game: defenceman Nicklas Lidstrom, center Sergei Fedorov and head coach Dave Lewis. It was Lidstrom's seventh appearance at the All-Star Game, Fedorov's sixth and Lewis's first appearance as a coach.

The Red Wings sold out all 41 home games in 2002–03 as 20,058 fans packed Joe Louis Arena for every regular season and playoff game played in Detroit.

Regular season

The Red Wings led the NHL in scoring during the regular season, with 269 goals for, and power-play percentage, at 23.82% (76 for 319). They also tied the Los Angeles Kings, New Jersey Devils and Washington Capitals for fewest short-handed goals allowed, with just four.

Season standings

Playoffs

The Detroit Red Wings ended the 2002–03 regular season as the Western Conference's second seed and played Anaheim in the first round. Anaheim upset Detroit in a four-game sweep. The Mighty Ducks would advance and reach the Stanley Cup Finals, losing in Game 7 to the New Jersey Devils.

Schedule and results

Regular season

|- | 1 || October 10 || Detroit || 6 – 3 || San Jose || || Joseph || 17,496 || 1–0–0–0 || 2 || |- | 2 || October 12 || Detroit || 2 – 3 || Los Angeles || || Joseph || 18,177 || 1–1–0–0 || 2 || |- | 3 || October 13 || Detroit || 4 – 2 || Anaheim || || Legace || 17,174 || 2–1–0–0 || 4 || |- | 4 || October 17 || Montreal || 3 – 2 || Detroit || || Joseph || 20,058 || 2–2–0–0 || 4 || |- | 5 || October 19 || Detroit || 5 – 3 || Minnesota || || Joseph || 19,344 || 3–2–0–0 || 6 || |- | 6 || October 21 || Calgary || 0 – 4 || Detroit || || Joseph || 20,058 || 4–2–0–0 || 8 || |- | 7 || October 23 || Los Angeles || 3 – 3 || Detroit || OT || Joseph || 20,058 || 4–2–1–0 || 9 || |- | 8 || October 25 || Pittsburgh || 3 – 7 || Detroit || || Legace || 20,058 || 5–2–1–0 || 11 || |- | 9 || October 26 || Detroit || 1 – 3 || Nashville || || Joseph || 17,113 || 5–3–1–0 || 11 || |- | 10 || October 29 || San Jose || 2 – 3 || Detroit || || Joseph || 20,058 || 6–3–1–0 || 13 ||

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Playoffs

|- | 1 || April 10 || Anaheim || 2 – 1 || Detroit || OT || Joseph || 20,058 || Anaheim leads 1–0 || |- | 2 || April 12 || Anaheim || 3 – 2 || Detroit || || Joseph || 20,058 || Anaheim leads 2–0 || |- | 3 || April 14 || Detroit || 1 – 2 || Anaheim || || Joseph || 17,174 || Anaheim leads 3–0 || |- | 4 || April 16 || Detroit || 2 – 3 || Anaheim || OT || Joseph || 17,174 || Anaheim wins 4–0 ||

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Player statistics

Scoring

Position abbreviations: C = Center; D = Defense; G = Goaltender; LW = Left wing; RW = Right wing
- = Joined team via a transaction (e.g., trade, waivers, signing) during the season. Stats reflect time with the Red Wings only.*
- = Left team via a transaction (e.g., trade, waivers, release) during the season. Stats reflect time with the Red Wings only.*

No.	Pos	Regular season	Playoffs	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM	GP	G	A	Pts
91	C	80	36	47	83	15	52	4	1	2	3	−1	0
17	RW	82	37	39	76	11	22	4	0	1	1	−4	0
14	LW	78	30	38	68	5	103	4	1	1	2	−1	4
5	D	82	18	44	62	40	38	4	0	2	2	−1	0
13	C	64	12	39	51	20	16	4	0	0	0	−3	0
40	LW	79	22	22	44	6	8	4	1	0	1	−4	0
8	C	74	10	33	43	−7	48	4	0	1	1	1	0
96	LW	74	20	20	40	11	62	4	1	1	2	1	4
18	LW	82	14	23	37	17	91	4	0	0	0	−2	4
33	C	82	14	21	35	6	82	4	0	0	0	−2	4
20	LW	81	11	20	31	4	50	4	1	0	1	1	0
25	RW	73	13	9	23	10	138	4	0	0	0	−3	6
15	D	62	6	17	23	12	22	4	1	0	1	−2	0
11	D	74	4	15	19	25	64	4	0	0	0	−1	2
24	D	66	2	17	19	4	78	4	0	0	0	−3	2
21	C	61	3	9	12	4	16
55	D	71	2	10	12	1	43	4	0	0	0	−2	0
42	LW	39	5	6	11	7	120
27	D	25	2	6	8	8	14
19	C	16	2	6	8	6	8	4	0	1	1	0	2
23	D	13	2	5	7	2	16	4	0	0	0	−4	6
29	C	16	3	3	6	3	2
2	D	15	1	5	6	0	16
32	D	57	0	3	3	0	54
34	G	25	0	1	1		2
3	D	32	0	1	1	−2	19
31	G	61	0	0	0		4	4	0	0	0		0
23	RW	2	0	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

No.	Player	Regular season	Playoffs	GP	W	L	T	SA	GA	GAA	SV%	SO	TOI	GP	W	L	SA	GA	GAA	SV%	SO	TOI
31	Curtis Joseph	61	34	19	6	1676	148	2.49	.912	5	3566	4	0	4	120	10	2.08	.917	0	289
34	Manny Legace	25	14	5	4	681	51	2.18	.925	0	1406	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Awards and records

Awards

Type	Award/honor	Recipient	Ref	League
(annual)	League
(in-season)
Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy	Steve Yzerman
James Norris Memorial Trophy	Nicklas Lidstrom
King Clancy Memorial Trophy	Brendan Shanahan
NHL All-Rookie Team	Henrik Zetterberg (Forward)	title=Postseason All-Star Teams	url=https://records.nhl.com/awards/phwa-all-star-teams?season=20022003	website=records.nhl.com	access-date=December 21, 2022}}
NHL First All-Star Team	Nicklas Lidstrom (Defense)
[NHL All-Star Game](2003-national-hockey-league-all-star-game) selection	Sergei Fedorov
Dave Lewis (coach)
Nicklas Lidstrom
NHL Rookie of the Month	Henrik Zetterberg (February)

Milestones

Milestone	Player	Date	Ref	First game	700th goal	600th assist	400th goal
Dmitri Bykov	October 10, 2002
Henrik Zetterberg
Brett Hull	February 10, 2003
Brett Hull	March 7, 2003
Sergei Fedorov	April 6, 2003

Transactions

The Red Wings were involved in the following transactions from June 14, 2002, the day after the deciding game of the 2002 Stanley Cup Finals, through June 9, 2003, the day of the deciding game of the 2003 Stanley Cup Finals.

Trades

Date	Details	Ref
To Detroit Red Wings	To [Nashville Predators](2002-03-nashville-predators-season)
To Detroit Red Wings	To [Calgary Flames](2002-03-calgary-flames-season)
To Detroit Red Wings	To [Buffalo Sabres](2002-03-buffalo-sabres-season)
To Detroit Red Wings	To [Los Angeles Kings](2002-03-los-angeles-kings-season)

Players acquired

Date		Player		Former team		Term		Via		Ref
Curtis Joseph
Derek King
Michel Picard
Bryan Adams
Patrick Boileau
Ed Campbell
Marc Lamothe
Mark Mowers
Danny Groulx
Stacy Roest
Darryl Bootland
Matt Ellis
Nathan Robinson

Players lost

Date		Player		New team		Via		Ref
Dominik Hasek
Dwayne Zinger
Fredrik Olausson
Jason Elliott
Uwe Krupp
Steve Brule
Ryan Gaucher
Josh DeWolf
John Wikstrom
Bruce Richardson
Jiri Slegr
Steve Duchesne
Stacy Roest

Signings

Date		Player		Term		Contract type		Ref
Chris Chelios
Mathieu Dandenault
Dmitri Bykov
Igor Larionov
Jiri Fischer
Jesse Wallin
Darren McCarty
Kirk Maltby
Brett Hull

Draft picks

Detroit's picks at the 2002 NHL entry draft at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto. The Red Wings were slated to pick 30th overall but traded their first pick to the Atlanta Thrashers.

Round	#	Player	College/Junior/Club team (League)
2	58	Jiri Hudler (C)	HC Vsetin (Czech Extraliga)
2	63	Tomas Fleischmann (LW)	HC Vitkovice (Czech Extraliga)
3	95	Valtteri Filppula (C)	Jokerit (SM-liiga)
4	131	Johan Berggren (D)	Sunne (SWE)
5	166	Logan Koopmans (G)	Lethbridge Hurricanes (WHL)
6	197	Jimmy Cuddihy (C)	Shawinigan Cataractes (QMJHL)
7	229	Derek Meech (D)	Red Deer Rebels (WHL)
8	260	Pierre-Olivier Beaulieu (D)	Quebec Remparts (QMJHL)
9	262	Christian Soderstrom (LW)	Timra IK (SWE)
9	291	Jonathan Ericsson (D)	Sodertalje SK (SWE)

Farm teams

[[Grand Rapids Griffins]]

The Griffins were Detroit's top affiliate in the American Hockey League in 2002–03.

[[Toledo Storm]]

The Storm were the Red Wings' ECHL affiliate for the 2002–03 season.

Notes

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