Screenwriting : Detroit Redwings Get Sent To Prison and start a Tradition now in it's 69th year! by Michael Kane

The amazing details surrounding the true story of the 1954 Detroit Redwings going behind the walls of the "Alcatraz of the North"-Marquette Branch Prison in Marquette, MI to play the prisoners team in a hockey game. How two convicted leaders of Detroit's organized crime syndicate the infamous Purple Gang, Ray Bernstein and Harry Keywell, now serving life in prison in Marquette, get it all started with a flippant, off-hand comment. How the game became a reality with the help of a legendary NCAA Champion Hockey player, coach, and recently appointed, Athletic Director Marquette Leonard "Oakie" Brumm, Warden Emery, Redwings GM Jack Adams, Hall of Fame Redwing Captain Terry Sawchuck, Stroh’s brewery, and AAA Division Marquette Sentinels Hockey team, and then the prisoner team, who were known by 2 different names; their official name being the Marquette Outlaws, and the other, a nod to Warden, Emery. The name on their game sweaters...Emerys Boys. The unexpected direction of the game itself, the factual account of the Redwings and the prisoners interaction. One incident, Redwing Gordie Howe, skating around every prisoner, dekeing the puck between the defenseman's legs, and past the goalie, during one of the 15 Redwing, first period goals. And another, a conversation between Terry Sawchuck and a prisoner team member who thought the prisoner was a really great guy. And at one point, in lighthearted brevity, asked what brought him to ending up there in Marquette? The prisoner replying, "I was just standing there, leaning against the wall, cleaning my nails with my knife, and a guy comes running around the corner and runs into my knife 3-4 times!". The incredible event that occurred 6wks after this game. The tradition it started, as a result of this game. How I participated in this tradition in 1996...with my younger brother David, at Kinross Correctional Facility, against the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds , The Detroit Redwings AAA Division Minor League sponsored team. And how the very next year I had surprisingly been given a parole after good time was restored and I was home, on parole..when the Redwings win the Stanley Cup for the first time since 1954, on my 33rd birthday. JUNE 7, 1997.