Great photos in hockey history you've just seen for the first time (Part III)

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This is a story many people already know.

On February 02, 1954, the Detroit Red Wings played their first ever outdoor game. It was at the Marquette State Prison (“the Alcatraz of the North”) against a team of inmates, the “Pirates.”

You can learn more about the game via a simple google search. Fascinating episode in the history of the Red Wings and the American penal system.

There was a trophy — the Doniker Trophy, also known as the Honey Pot — which some folks might reasonably surmise had a distinct purpose before morphing into a one-time sports trophy.

This is a picture of it.