NHL first and second team All-Stars was a one-time second team All-Star|alt=Syd Howe posing on the ice in a Philadelphia Quakers uniform The
NHL first and second team All-Stars are the top players at each position as voted on by the Professional Hockey Writers' Association.
Gordie Howe has been selected twenty-one times, more than any other player in league history.
NHL All-Rookie Team was named to the All-Rookie Team for the 2009–10 season|alt=Jimmy Howard on the ice, upright in front of his net The
NHL All-Rookie Team consists of the top rookies at each position as voted on by the Professional Hockey Writers' Association.
Steve Yzerman was the first Red Wing selected, in the
1983–84 season.
Goaltender Jimmy Howard is the most recently selected player, having been named to the team in
2009–10.
All-Star Game selections The
National Hockey League All-Star Game is a mid-season
exhibition game held annually between many of the top players of each season. Sixty-four All-Star Games have been held since 1947, with at least one player chosen to represent the Red Wings in each year. The All-Star game has not been held in various years: 1979 and 1987 due to the
1979 Challenge Cup and
Rendez-vous '87 series between the NHL and the
Soviet national team, respectively, 1995, 2005, and 2013 as a result of labor stoppages, 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2026 because of the
Winter Olympic Games, 2021 as a result of the
COVID-19 pandemic, and 2025 when it was replaced by the
2025 4 Nations Face-Off. Detroit has hosted five of the games. The
4th,
6th,
8th, and
9th games all took place at the
Detroit Olympia. On October 8, 1950, the Red Wings, winner of the
1950 Stanley Cup Finals, played a team of All-Stars in the 4th All-Star Game. Only 9,166 people attended the game, making it is the smallest attendance figure in All-Star Game history.
Ted Lindsay scored the first
hat trick in an All-Star Game, as the Red Wings won 7–1. The 6th All-Star Game was held on October 5, 1952. For the second year in a row, the format had the
First and Second Team All-Stars, with additional players on each team, play each other. After the game ended in a tie for the second year in a row, the NHL decided that they would continue with the previous format of the
Stanley Cup winner playing an all-star team. The Red Wings won both the
1954 Stanley Cup Finals and the
1955 Stanley Cup Finals and so hosted the 8th and 9th All-Star Games, each on October 2. The 1954 match ended in a 2–2 tie while the Red Wings won the 1955 game by a score of 3–1. The
32nd National Hockey League All-Star Game was held at
Joe Louis Arena in Detroit on February 5, 1980. The
Wales Conference all-star team won for the fifth consecutive time.
Gordie Howe, then of the
Hartford Whalers, appeared in his twenty-third and final All-Star game, his first twenty-two coming during his career in Detroit. played in 10 All-Star Games as a Red Wing has coached two All-Star Games|alt=Mike Babcock at a press conference was selected to play in two All-Star Games|alt=Chris Osgood during a game
All-Star benefit games Prior to the institution of the
National Hockey League All-Star Game the league held three different benefit games featuring teams of all-stars. The first was the
Ace Bailey Benefit Game, held in 1934, after a violent collision with
Eddie Shore of the
Boston Bruins left
Ace Bailey of the
Toronto Maple Leafs hospitalized and unable to continue his playing career. In 1937 the
Howie Morenz Memorial Game was held to raise money for the family of
Howie Morenz of the
Montreal Canadiens who died from complications after being admitted to the hospital for a broken leg. The
Babe Siebert Memorial Game was held in 1939 to raise funds for the family of the Canadiens'
Babe Siebert who drowned shortly after he retired from playing. ==Career achievements==