#red wings

[...] Konstantinov always looked like a wreck anyway. Even as a teenager who was an elite athlete on the soccer pitch as well as on a big sheet of ice in a European hockey rink, Vladimir looked and acted far older than his years. "He came to the Red Army school when he was 15, and even then we called him 'Dyada,'" said Igor Larionov, a teammate in Moscow and Detroit. It was a term of endearment meaning "Grandpa," the kind of old man forever screaming at kids to get off his lawn. "Always grumpy, always serious, never smiles. That's why we called him Grandpa."

red wings socials admin realizing they have to post about the team captain trying to quit, their super star legendary GM leaving, and the closest they had to a current legend signing somewhere else: