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Do the Detroit Red Wings have 11 or 12 Stanley Cups?

The Detroit Red Wings have 11 Stanley Cups in franchise history. Or, to be more precise about it, the Detroit Red Wings, since the NHL awarded them to a group of investors in 1926 as an expansion franchise, have won 11 Stanley Cups, the first in 1936 and the most recent in 2008.

But that's not the whole story.

The last non-NHL team to win the Stanley Cup was the 1925 Victoria Cougars of the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL). They played for one more season in the renamed Western Hockey League before the league, and therefore the Victoria Cougars, folded.