The Joe Louis Arena built in 1979 is home to the Detroit Red Wings and hosts the CCHA championship games, (College Hockey confrence for Mid-West College hockey programs.)

  When the Red Wings moved to the Joe from the Olympia; the ice that Maurice Richard liked the best was at the Olympia. When the Red Wings moved to the Joe fans thought the personal atmosphere that the Olympia had was gone. The Joe Louis Arena has the atmosphere of Steve Yzerman leading the Red Wings and winning the Cup. The fans continue to sell out the games.  The Joe Louis Arena is where I have watched the Wings play.  I went to the Joe Louis the first time and watched the Wings play and remember the fist outside and the team retired numbers of "the production line" and Terry Sawchuk and Alex Delvecchio hanging from the rafters. "Always look up", is a saying I like when I need to remember to stay posative. When in the Joe look up and feel the winning history of the past skating at the Olympia with the Cups won and Sawchuk setting NHL shut out records and with Gordie Howe taking a pass from Ted Lindsay to set up the scoring "production line" prowess of those legends.

Then look at the ice surface of the present day and see Steve Yzerman, Nicklas Lidstrom, Henrik Zetterberg and Pavel Datsyuk, look up to the rafters because you did, that clinched for me the atmospheric closeness with the players that will one day have numbers on the rafters of the Joe  Louis Arena, home of the Detroit Red Wings.