For a lot of Detroit Red Wings fans, this night felt overdue by about 20 years.
Sergei Fedorov’s No. 91 should’ve been hanging from the rafters at Little Caesars Arena long before now. It should’ve been raised several blocks away at the former Joe Louis Arena when Steve Yzerman’s banner went up years ago. It should’ve followed Nicklas Lidström’s. It should’ve been there when we told the story of the Red Wings dynasty in full — not with an asterisk, not with a footnote, not with a grudge still stapled to it.
But it wasn’t.