December 3, 1953
University of Iowa scientists announced they had achieved the first human pregnancy using deep frozen sperms.

May 24, 1954
IBM announced it would market an electronic calculator for business use.


June 22, 1954
Automobile manufacturers Studebaker and Packard announced they would merge.



Most Goals - Gordie Howe: 33
Most Assists - Gordie Howe: 48
Most Points - Gordie Howe: 81
Most Penalty Minutes - Ted Lindsay: 110
Most Wins, Goaltender - Terry Sawchuk: 35
Lowest Goals-Against Average - Terry Sawchuk: 1.92
Most Shutouts - Terry Sawchuk: 9
NHL Award Winners
Gordie Howe - Art Ross Trophy
Red Kelly - Norris Trophy
Red Kelly- Lady Byng Trophy
Red Kelly, Ted Lindsay & Gordie Howe
1st Team All-Star
Terry Sawchuk - 2nd Team All-Star

Central Division	W	L	T	PTS	GF	GA
DETROIT	37	19	14	88	191	132
Montreal	35	24	11	81	195	141
Toronto	32	24	14	78	152	131
Boston	32	28	10	74	177	181
New York	29	31	10	68	161	182
Chicago	12	51	7	31	133	242

Playoff Results
Defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs in Series "A" (4-1)
Defeated the Montreal Canadiens in Series "C" (4-3)
Leading Playoff Scorers
Gordie Howe & Alex Delvecchio (9PTS)
Stanley Cup Champion
Detroit Red Wings



Angered by their stunning loss to Boston in the 1952-53 semifinals, the Wings set out in the fall on a mission.

Detroit opened the season against the New York Rangers looking as if they'd found a center to play with Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay. Earl (Dutch) Reibel marked his NHL debut by setting up all four Wings goals in a 4-1 win, establishing an NHL mark for assists and a club record for points by a player in his first game. Reibel finished with 15-33-48 totals and as runner-up to New York's Camille Henry for NHL rookie-of-the-year honors. The victory improved Detroit's home opener record to 11-0-4 over the past 15 years.

Howe won his fourth straight Art Ross Trophy, registering 81 points. Defenseman Red Kelly captured his third Lady Byng Trophy and was the first recipient of the Norris Trophy as the NHL's top blueliner, an award christened to honor the memory of former Wings owner James Norris, who died in 1952. Lindsay surpassed Sid Abel to become Detroit's career scoring leader with 527 points.

Lindsay, Howe and Kelly were NHL First All-Star selections and goalie Terry Sawchuk was a Second Team choice. Sawchuk tied his club record with 12 shutouts and coupled with one zero posted by rookie Dave Gatherum, they set a new team record for whitewashes in a season.

With 88 points, the Wings grabbed first place and the Prince of Wales Trophy for the sixth straight season, easily bouncing Toronto in a five-game semifinal. Howe scored nine seconds into a 4-3 series-clinching win on April 1 to set a Wings playoff mark for the fastest goal from the start of a game. A thrilling, seven-game final with Montreal saw each team win twice in the other's rink and an Olympia-record crowd of 15,791 packed the building to the rafters for Game 7, a tilt which fell 2-1 in Detroit's favor on Tony Leswick's overtime goal.

"You little toad," captain Lindsay said as he hugged Leswick in the post-game celebration, before kissing him twice on the cheek.



Wings capture their sixth Stanley Cup

One of the most hard-fought finals in Stanley Cup history ended on one of the flukiest Cup-winning goals.

After splitting the first two games on Olympia ice, Detroit swept a pair of games at the Montreal Forum and seemed poised to make short work of the defending champion Canadiens. But Montreal had other ideas, winning Games 5 and 6 to send everyone back to the Olympia for a seventh and deciding match. Floyd Curry gave Montreal a first-period lead, but Red Kelly tied it in the second frame. After a scoreless third period, Tony Leswick's long shot in overtime eluded Montreal goalie Gerry McNeil and gave Detroit the Cup. "It seemed like an eternity before that red light went on," Wings coach Tommy Ivan said after the Cup-winning score.

The bitterness of the battle was emphasized when Montreal players left the ice before the traditional post-series handshake.

"Did you see how they shook hands?" Leswick said. "Not one of them came over." Gaye Stewart - the player the Wings traded to New York to acquire Leswick in 1951 - was the only Montrealer to later offer congratulations.

"If I had shaken hands, I wouldn't have meant it and I refuse to be hypocritical," Canadiens coach Dick Irvin explained.



Leswick stars in Game 7

The "Mighty Mouse" of the Red Wings lineup came up mighty big. Tied 1-1 and playing overtime in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final against Montreal, Tony Leswick launched a long shot towards Canadiens goalie Gerry McNeil. Montreal defenseman Doug Harvey attempted to pick the puck out of the air with his glove, but instead deflected it over the left shoulder of his netminder for the Cup-winning marker after 4:29 of the extra session. "I just shot as quickly as I could and it happened to go high," Leswick said of his famous tally.

At only 5-foot-6, Leswick was among the NHL's smallest players, but his Stanley Cup legacy was large. He and Pete Babando, scorer of Detroit's 1950 Cup winner, are the only players to settle a Stanley Cup with a Game 7 OT goal.



One of the quietest seasons of player movement in Red Wings history saw center Jimmy Peters, a member of Detroit's 1949-50 title-winning squad, reacquired from Chicago. Rookie center Earl (Dutch) Reibel shone as the pivot man between Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay, while defenseman Al Arbour and Keith Allen and right-winger Bill Dineen were other first-year players who stepped up to the top rung of the Detroit chain. Trainer Lefty Wilson blanked Montreal for 16 minutes as an emergency replacement for an injured Terry Sawchuk and the next game, rookie Dave Gatherum blocked 24 shots for a 4-0 shutout of Toronto in his NHL debut.



Most Years Leading Wings In Goals
Gordie Howe (15)
Steve Yzerman (6)
John Ogrodnick (6)
Brendan Shanahan (4)
Syd Howe (4)



Marguerite Norris, who served as Red Wings president from 1952-55, was the first woman to have her name inscribed on the Stanley Cup.

1953-54 Final
Tony Leswick’s Cup-winning tally was only the second goal ever scored in overtime during the seventh and deciding game of a Stanley Cup Final series. Leswick, who notched the winner at 4:29 of the first extra period, matched the feat first accomplished by former Red Wings Pete Babando in 1950.
Marguerite Norris, president of the Detroit club, was presented with the Stanley Cup by NHL President Clarence Campbell at the conclusion of the series. She became the first woman in history to have her name engraved on the Stanley Cup.

Semifinal

Date	Visitor	Score	Home	Score
Mar. 23	Toronto	0	Detroit	5
Mar. 25	Toronto	3	Detroit	1
Mar. 27	Detroit	3	Toronto	1
Mar. 30	Detroit	2	Toronto	1
Apr. 1	Toronto	3	Detroit	4 (2OT)

Detroit won best-of-seven series 4-1


Final

Date	Visitor	Score	Home	Score
Apr. 4	Montreal	1	Detroit	3
Apr. 6	Montreal	3	Detroit	1
Apr. 8	Detroit	5	Montreal	2
Apr. 10	Detroit	2	Montreal	0
Apr. 11	Montreal	1	Detroit	0 (OT)
Apr. 13	Detroit	1	Montreal	4
Apr. 16	Montreal	1	Detroit	2 (OT)

Detroit won best-of-seven series 4-3


 

Stanley Cup Roster
#	Name
1	Terry Sawchuk
4	Red Kelly
2	Bob Goldham
5	Benny Woit
3	Marcel Pronovost
18	Al Arbour
19	Keith Allen
7	Ted Lindsay "C"
8	Tony Leswick
9	Gordie Howe
11	Marty Pavelich
15	Alex Delvecchio
10	Metro Prystai
12	Glen Skov
16	Johnny Wilson
17	Bill Dineen
20	Jimmy Peters
14	Dutch Reibel
21	Gilles Dube
1	Dave Gatherum*
	*Did not play in playoffs
	Jack Adams (Manager)
	Tommy Ivan (Coach)