Mike Babcock said he lobbied the Red Wings to retire Red Kelly’s No. 4 when he was with the team.

Babcock was college teammates and friends with Kelly’s son. pic.twitter.com/cxtN4oscTD— Brad Galli (@BradGalli) February 1, 2019

Signage lit at Little Caesars Arena for Red Kelly Night and the retirement of his number 4 tonight here in Detroit. We’ll carry the ceremony live on FSD at7 tonight. pic.twitter.com/uv2fOoBkIs

— John Keating (@JohnKeatingFSD) February 1, 2019

Lineups

Justin Abdelkader - Dylan Larkin - Gustav Nyquist
Thomas Vanek - Frans Nielsen - Anthony Mantha
Andreas Athanasiou - Luke Glendening - Darren Helm
Christoffer Ehn - Jacob de la Rose - Martin Frk

Danny DeKeyser - Nick Jensen
Jonathan Ericsson - Dennis Cholowski
Niklas Kronwall - Mike Green

Jimmy Howard
Jonathan Bernier

Patrick Marleau - Auston Matthews - Mitch Marner
Zach Hyman - John Tavares - Kasperi Kapanen
Connor Brown - Nazem Kadri - William Nylander
Par Lindholm - Frederik Gauthier - Andreas Johnsson

Jake Muzzin - Morgan Rielly
Jake Gardiner - Nikita Zaitsev
Travis Dermott - Ron Hainsey

Frederik Andersen
Garret Sparks

Score Goals

I said it the last time they played the Leafs and I will probably say it the net time to.