Really, Cheli?
I don’t own a Detroit Red Wings sweater. But I feel like buying my first one today: a Chris Chelios No. 24 Red Wings sweater, just so I can burn it. Preferably during lunch time in front of Cheli’s Chili Bar.
To be clear, I have zero problems with Chelios moving home to Chicago to be closer to his family, and particularly his recently widowed mother. That was one of the main reasons he gave when he announced Thursday he was leaving the Wings organization after 19 years.
Chelios admitted in a released statement he was “skeptical about the 1999 trade that brought me to Detroit” because, as a Chicago guy playing for the Blackhawks, “we despised those Detroit teams of the 1990s.