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1958–59 Detroit Red Wings season

sports season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ4569510 ↗
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The 1958–59 Detroit Red Wings season was the Red Wings' 33rd season.

The team missed the playoffs for the first time since the 1937–38 season it is also the first time they finished last in the league since the 1927–28 season.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1958, 1937, 1927—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Detroit, Wings and season can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as sports season. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4569510. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1958, 1937 and 1927.

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This entry incorporates text from “1958–59 Detroit Red Wings season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.