If you're a new player/coach in a major Detroit sport, do not choose jersey number 3. Look what has happened to Detroit number 3s in the last year:

Alan Trammell (Tigers, #3) : Gone
Joey Harrington (Lions, #3) : Gone
Ben Wallace (Pistons, #3) : Gone
Andreas Lilja (Red Wings, #3) : Okay, he's still in Detroit, but just wait...

Funny thread.

OK, my seven year old was on a little league team last year. They were picking numbers and the coaches wife said "Take number three it was Babe Ruth's number". So he did.

He runs up to me and proudly states "Dad, I have number three. Do you know whose number that is?"

(I'm thinking Ben Wallace, but know that can't be right since I'm in Idaho). "No, tell me".

As his entire team and coaches watched attentively, he loudly and proudly exclaimed "it belongs to some guy named Beethoven"

Hence, his new little league nickname was born. Yep, number 3...stay away from it Detroiters!

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"Quite simply captain, I examined the problem from all angles, and it was plainly hopeless. Logic informed me that under the circumstances, the only logical action would have to be one of desperation. Logical decision, logically arrived at." -- Spock

LOL, that's pretty cruel naming the kid after a Saint Bernard.

If Ben would have re-signed in Detroit, I think we would have eventually seen the #3 hanging from the rafters at the Palace. That is never going to happen now.

It's debatable whether Ben deserves that honor or not. I would say "no," but others could make a good case for "yes."

It's not going to happen for sure.

Well, maybe he'll get his name on the palace floor or something... whatever that is all about .

Selling tickets. That's the only time the Palace has honored anyone during a game. To sell tickets.

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Nov 13 LW Milan Lucic had an active night. He scored his first goal in eight games since his Oct. 25 hat trick and also pounded Michael Komisarek in a third-period fight. Lucic cut his hand in a fight with Michael Komisarek. "I'll be fine," he said. "(X-rays are) negative, but there's so many broken bones in there from before you can't really tell."

Oh that's just mean.

But so true.

Or do other teams do it to? Retiring Jerseys should be enough.