Well well well, the Number of the Day returns after a week off because I had entirely too much work to do and not nearly enough time. Apologies to those that were looking for it all week, hopefully won't happen again. Anywayyyyyy....

Today's number is 20, brought to you by THE HYPNOTOAD.

• The number of consecutive playoff appearances by the Red Wings. Ahhhh, that's so fun to say.
  
• Mickey Redmond wore #20 for the Red Wings. During his 317 games with the Red Wings, Mickey scored 177 goals and added 133 assists and used wood sticks, not those ridiculous composites.
• Drew Miller currently wears #20 for the Red Wings. Miller has become a fan favorite (except for a RWGDOTCOM podcaster who probably thinks he should be thrown into a fiery pit) for his work ethic, salt'n'pepper hair, overall play and superman ability (see above).
  
• The number of assists Darren Helm has this season. The number of total points Patrick Eaves has this season. The average TOI for Brian Rafalski this year. The number of power play assists for Henrik Zetterberg. 
• Brent Gilchrist scored 20 goals with the Red Wings. Tomas Kopecky had 20 career assists in Detroit.
• Red Wings All-Time Leaders--20th:
  Goals: Red Kelly--162
  Assists: Gary Bergman--243
  Points: Igor Larionov--397
  PIM: Marcel Pronovost--717
• Jimmy Howard is 20th All-Time for the Red Wings in losses with 35. On the flip side, he's #12 in wins, tied with Glenn Hall with 74 wins.
• Dominik Hasek and Roger Crozier both had 20 shutouts with the Red Wings.
• The number of games played by Norm Maracle for the Red Wings.
• The number of combined Cups won by active Red Wings Nicklas Lidstrom (4), Tomas Holmstrom (4), Kris Draper (4), Chris Osgood (3), Brian Rafalski (3) and Pavel Datsyuk (2). Hopefully, this number goes up to 26 after this season.
• Other Red Wings to wear #20, via redwings.nhl.com :
  

  Sid Abel, Jack Keating, Bob Whitelaw, Rudy Zunich, Tony Bukovich, Gerry Couture, John Mowers, Red Kelly, Enio Sclisizzi, Larry Wilson, Glen Skov, Gord Haidy, Leo Gravelle, Max McNab, Jim Hay, Jim Peeters, Marcel Bonin, John Bucyk, Don Poile, Bob Bailey, Len Lunde, Bob Solinger, Howie Young, Parker MacDonald, Don McKenney, Murray Hall, Dean Prentice, Ed Hatoum, Jim Niekamp, Mickey Redmond, Dwight Schofield, Don Martineau, Vaclav Nedomansky, Dwight Foster, Tim Higgins, Greg C. Adams, Marc Potvin, Brad Marsh, Martin Lapointe, Luc Robitaille, Mark Mowers, Robert Lang, Aaron Downey, Brad May, Drew Miller

• Trivia Question: Which Russian Five member scored 20 goals in the playoffs as a Red Wing?
  

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Today's number is 22, brought to you by Thompson's Teeth.

• The number of the great Brett Lebda. Lebda wore 22 in Detroit and scored a total of 18 goals and 50 assists. The Red Wings next game is against Lebda's current team, the Toronto Maple Leafs. Lebda has 1 goal and 3 assists this year for the Leafs and is a -14 in 40 games played...at $1,500,00.
  
• The number of goals Pavel Datsyuk has this season. Datsyuk's 22 goals is currently his lowest 2002-2003, but the 22 games he has missed from injury are the biggest contributing factor to this.
  
• Current Red Wing Mike Modano is 22nd all-time in points in the NHL with 1,373. The only active player above him is Mark Recchi. Former Red Wing Brendan Shanahan is 22nd all-time in PIMs with 2,489.
• Today's number is half of yesterday's number. Three cheers for division! (or...multiplication, depending on which way you look at it).
• Jeff Hancock's favorite Griffin, Brendan Smith, is 22 years young.
• Other Red Wings to wear 22, via redwings.nhl.com:

  Don Deacon, Hy Buller, Les Douglas, Doug McCaig, Ed Bruneteau, Fred Glover, Al Dewsbury, Marcel Pronovost, Clare Raglan, Ben Woit, Vic Stasiuk, Glenn Hall, Len Haley, Stu McNeill, Paul Henderson, Gerry Odrowski, Bob Dillabough, Roger Crozier, Harrison Gray, Pat Rupp, Bob Champoux, Carl Wetzel, Butch Paul, Pete Goegan, Ab McDonald, Howie Young, Dan lawson, Nick Libett, Ron Anderson, Bob Falkenberg, Rick McCann, Bill Collins, Blair Stewart, Nelson Pyatt, Dennis Polonich, Larry Giroux, Mike Wong, Dennis Hextall, Bill Hogaboam, Glen Hicks, Greg Joly, Murray Craven, Brad Park, Doug Houda, Glenn Merkosky, Dave Barr, Martin Lapointe, Dino Ciccarelli, Mike Knuble, Phillipe Audet, Yuri Butsayev, Anders Myrvoid, Brett Lebda

• Daniel Sedin is probably the most notable current 22 in the NHL. Others include:  Todd Marchant (ANA),  Troy Brouwer (CHI), Jordin Tootoo (NSH-yes, Tootoo wears 2-2), Ville Leino (PHI, Leino Lounge (c) TPL), Trevor Lewis (LAK), Anthony Stewart (ATL), Dan Boyle (SJS), Cal Clutterbuck (MIN), Paul Mara (ANA/MTL), and Brad Boyes (STL/BUF).
• The number of regulation losses by the Red Wings this year.
• Detroit's power play is at 22.1% on the season.
• Trivia Question: Which Red Wing is 22nd all-time in points scored for the Wings with 362? (Hint: It's cold in here)

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Today's number is "44".

• Todd Bertuzzi currently wears a "44" on the back of his jersey, just as he did during his first stint with the Red Wings, with Vancouver, with Florida, and with the New York Islanders. Calgary (7) and Anaheim (4) were the only places where Bert didn't wear "44".
• Bertuzzi has scored 287 career goals and added 420 assists for a total of 707 points in 1,014 games played in the NHL. Bertuzzi's 287 career goals ties him with Larry Murphy on the all-time list. Bertuzzi has 34 regular season goals as a Red Wing. In the 2009-2010 season, Bert had 44 points for the Wings. Neat.
• Players that have worn "44" for the Red Wings, via redwings.nhl.com:
  

  Glenn Merkosky, Gord Kruppke, Viacheslav Fetisov, Anders Eriksson, Yan Golubovsky, Mark Mowers, Todd Bertuzzi, Mark Hartigan, Aaron Downey, Todd Bertuzzi

• Aaron Downey is now the strength and conditioning coach for the Grand Rapids Griffins. Downey's most popular YouTube clip is his one-punch knockout of Jesse Boulerice. Downey played just 60 career games for the Red Wings but was a fan favorite for his willingness to throw down. A few of us saw him on the tour of JLA, he's an intimidating individual because of how fit he is.
• Norm Ullman, a former Red Wing, is 44th all-time in the NHL in goals with 490. Ullman played 13 seasons with the Red Wings and scored 324 of his 490 goals while with Detroit. 
• Nicklas Lidstrom has 44 assists on the season. Dan Cleary is one goal/assist away from having 44 points on the season
• Trivia Question: Which two Red Wings' jersey numbers greater than 44 do you have to subtract to get Bertuzzi's jersey?

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There is quite a bit of stuff related to the number 4 so I expect no less than 4 X 10 comments.

• The number of Stanley Cups won by the Red Wings in the past 20 years.
• The number of Stanley Cups won by the Red Wings in the 1950s alone.
• During 4 decades (1930s-1960s), the Red Wings played in a total of 18 Stanley Cup Finals, going 7-11.
• The number of games needed to win a playoff series. The number of rounds needed to win the Stanley Cup.
• The number of consecutive Stanley Cup wins by the New York Islanders in the 1980s. The team that beat them in their bid for #5, the Edmonton Oilers, went on to win 4 Cups in 5 years. From 1976-1979, the Montreal Canadiens won 4 straight Cups as well.
• The number of shootout wins and shootout losses (4 each) for the Red Wings this season.
• The number currently worn by Jakub Kindl. Players to wear the number before him: 

  Harry Meeking, Archie Briden, George Hay, Herb Lewis, John Sorrell, Gus Giesebrecht, Sid Abel, Jim Orlando, Harold Jackson, Jim McFadden, Doug McCaig, Al Dewsbury, Red Kelly, Marc Reaume, Howie Young, Bill Gadsby, Ron Harris, Bob Wall, Leo Boivin, Bob Baun, Larry Brown, Arnie Brown, Thommie Bergman, Bart Crashley, Rick Lapointe, Terry Murray, Larry Giroux, John Hilworth, Rick Vasko, Tom Bladon, Rejean Cloutier, Colin Campbell, Tim Friday, Jim Leavins, Jeff Sharples, Rick Zombo, Bob McGill, Mark Howe, Jamie Pushor, Uwe Krupp, Jamie Rivers, Cory Cross, Kyle Quincey

• Sergei Fedorov is 4th all-time in goals for the Red Wings with 400. Alex Delvecchio ranks 4th in assists with 825. Lidstrom is 4th in points at 1,103 and games played with 1,485.
  
• Among goalies, Roger Crozier is 4th in wins with 131, Manny Legace is 4th (for players with 20+ GP) in GAA with 2.18.
• The number of decades that Gordie Howe played in the NHL. Note, this is not consecutive years of course, but different decades totaled.
• The NHL ranking of Detroit's power play (21.9%). 
• The number of words in the blog's name.
• Where Henrik Zetterberg currently sits in the NHL for assists with 52.
• The number of goals Brian Rafalski has scored this season. Rafalski has 36 assists to go with those goals though, totaling 40 points--a multiple of 4. Also, Valtteri Filppula has 4 power play goals  and 4 power play assists this year.
  
• The number of points Brett Lebda has this season for Toronto. Come on, Lebs. Andreas Lilja has 7 points and he didn't even start the season on a team!
  
• Trivia Question: Which Red Wing ranks fourth in shorthanded goals with 18?
  

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Today's number is 8. Quite a few awesome things related to the number 8 in Red Wings history. 

• The Red Wings have two Stanley Cups coming in years ending with "8": 1998 and 2008.
• The number of Stanley Cups the two New York teams have won, 4 each. 
• Igor Larionov "The Professor" wore number 8 for a long time in Detroit. Currently wearing the number is Justin Abdelkader.
• Starting with The Professor: Igor Larionov played 539 regular season games for the Red Wings and 929 total in the NHL and was part of the famous "Russian Five" in Detroit.. Known primarily as an assist man, Larionov only surpassed 20 goals twice in his NHL career. During his time in Detroit, Larionov scored 89 goals, but added 308 assists. Larionov won three Stanley Cups with the Red Wings. He won a pair of gold medals at the Olympics and four gold medals at the World Championships. Larionov was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2008. Larionov scored this triple overtime goal for the Red Wings to win Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Finals against the Carolina Hurricanes.
• Now to Abdelkader: Abdelkader has scored a total of 8 career goals, five of those coming this season. 11 of his 14 career assists have come in this season as well. Up until this season, Abdelkader had as many playoff goals as he did regular season goals (3). Abdelkader scored a goal in two consecutive games against the Penguins in the 2009 Stanley Cup Finals. However, this goal takes the cake as my favorite Abby goal. Abdelkader has attempted to take on the fighter role when necessary, but he's got a long way to go before he's feared for that. Abdelkader is perhaps best known for his game-winning goal against Boston College in 2007 that secured the NCAA title for Michigan State.
• Larionov's name has 8 characters, he also played 8 seasons in Detroit and 8 for CSKA Moscow. 
• Steve Yzerman is 8th in the NHL in goals scored with 692. Gordie Howe is 8th all-time in assists with 1,049--that's a mere 996 more than Brett Lebda.
• Eighth all-time for the Red Wings in points? Pavel Datsyuk with 649 points. Pavel also is eighth in all-time GWG with 32. 
• Manny Legace ranks 8th all-time in goaltender wins for the Red Wings with 112. Chris Osgood ranks 8th all-time (in players with 20+ GP) in save percentage with .905%.
• Eight is of course the number of arms on an octopus, the best of all cephalopods. 
• Trivia question: Which players are tied for 8th all-time in games played for the Red Wings with 908?

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Today's number is 59. Why you ask? Because I'm spelling something with the atomic symbols corresponding to the atomic numbers.

• The Montreal Canadiens won the 1959 Stanley Cup over the Toronto Maple Leafs in 5 games.
• No Red Wing has sported the number 59...yet. Hear that, Brendan Smith? 
• As pictured, Chad LaRose wears 59 for the Hurricanes. LaRose is a product of the state of Michigan. Other players to wear 59: Michael Haley (NYI), Keith Aulie (TOR), Brad Staubitz (when he was with the Sharks), Rob Klinkhammer (CHI, awesome name) and Brandon Yip wore it last year for the Avalanche.
• The number of goals Dennis Polonich scored as a Red Wing.
• The number of assists Steve Yzerman had in the 1984-1985, 1986-1987, and 1995-1996 seasons. Pavel Datsyuk had 59 assists in the 2005-2006 season. Gordie Howe also had 59 assists in 1968-1969 season.
• Dan Cleary will be playing his 59th game of the season tonight.
  
• The number of assists Martin St. Louis has this season with the Lightning. 
• Edmonton doesn't even have 59 points. Womp womp.
  
• Trivia time: Which major league pitcher played until age 59?

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For those that may have missed the new feature yesterday, we're back with the second installment of an infinite series of posts. To recycle my words from yesterday (and I'll probably do this for the first 5 numbers), here's an explanation:

Well hello, this is a new daily feature. I've seen some other blogs around the SBN network incorporate this and I think it's a neat idea. Basically, we'll give you a number each day and some random facts an trivia about the number and or the player who has that jersey number.

Today, we've got the number 11 for you. So everything below is based on the number 11. Enjoy!

• 11: as in the number of Stanley Cups the Detroit Red Wings have won. The years of those Cups are as follows: '36, '37, '43, '50, '52, '54, '55, '97, '98, '02, '08
• 11: the number good friend and hair enthusiast Michael Petrella wore during his time at DePaul.
• Darren Helm and Niklas Kronwall both have 11 goals on the season. Darren Helm is also a +11.
  
• Justin Abdelkader, Jonathan Ericsson and Mike Modano all have 11 assists on the season.
• The Red Wings have 11 players with 10 or more goals this season. Only Boston (11) Phoenix (11) have as many players with 10 or more goals. 
  
• Where Henrik Zetterberg ranks on all-time goal scorers for the Red Wings. Where Hank also ranks all-time in assists. In fact, he is tied with John Ogrodnick for 11th all-time in points.
• Jason Williams was a +11 during his time in Detroit...cool.
• 11: That's numberwang!
• The length of Johan Franzen's contract extension back in April of 2009.
• How many more points Jonathan Ericsson (14) has than Brett Lebda (3)...for a cap hit of $550,000 less.
• 11:38, the average time on ice per game for Drew Miller.
• Trivia Question: Who wore #11 directly before Dan Cleary? Answer after the jump.

Trivia answer and various non-hockey facts bout the number after the jump. Also, don't forget to add any of your own in!

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Well hello, this is a new daily feature. I've seen some other blogs around the SBN network incorporate this and I think it's a neat idea. Basically, we'll give you a number each day and some random facts an trivia about the number and or the player who has that jersey number. 

Today, we'll bring you the number of The Captain, Steve Yzerman. So everything below is based on the number 19 or related to Yzerman.

• Steve Yzerman scored 692 goals and 1,063 assists in 1,514 games with the Red Wings. Yzerman won three Stanley Cups, Conn Smythe Trophy, the Selke Trophy, Lester B. Pearson and the Bill Masterson Trophy, and was a 10-time All-Star. 
• Darren Helm and Valtteri Filppula both have 19 assists this year. 19 of Henrik Zetterberg's 51 assists have come on the the power play.
• Philadelphia only has 19 regulation losses this season. Vancouver is the only team with fewer (16)
• The Red Wings have 19 home wins. Dallas has 19 home wins as well.
• On the other end of the spectrum, both Ottawa and Edmonton have lost 19 home games.