It went by a lot of names. "Bloody Wednesday," "the Brawl in Hockeytown," "Fight Night at the Joe" and some others. Maybe you have a favorite. And if you made up your own nickname, you’re not alone. Darren McCarty did, too.
“For lack of a better term, it’s 'Red Wing D-Day,' right?” McCarty told me recently. “Because you can go to that date and you can narrate the story of the organization, from my perspective and my history and everything else, from that date.