Red Wings Break The Curse Of Their Jersey Advertisement After 7-Game Skid

The Detroit Red Wings found themselves back in the win column on Saturday after enduring one of the weirder sports curses in recent memory.

Detroit topped the Buffalo Sabres 4-1 to snap a 7-game losing streak.

Alright… it didn't go on for too long. It was a mirco-curse, but still, a curse nonetheless, and it had to do with the addition of a jersey advertisement.

At the end of February, the Red Wings announced that they were going to tarnish one of the most iconic uniform sets in hockey with an ad. 

The team already had a sticker for the grocery chain Meijer on their brain buckets and ads on NHL jerseys are becoming something of an inevitability. However, fans didn't like seeing the team add a patch for Priority Waste — a Michigan-based trash company — to their get-ups.

Like clockwork, as soon as the trash company patches were sewn onto their sweaters the Red Wings started playing like trash.

They lost to the New York Islanders on February 29 and went on to lose six more games with losses to the Panthers, Avalanche, Coyotes (twice), Golden Knights, and Sabres.

Every team has rough stretches but that 0-7 run threw what looked like a fairly safe ticket to the postseason via an Eastern Conference wild card spot into jeopardy.

And the team was feeling it. There was even some rough stuff between teammates in practice.

However, the jersey ad nightmare came to an end with that big win over the Sabres to put the Red Wings back on track.

However, that skid created a lot of extra work for the Red Wings if they want to solidify a playoff berth.

Detroit is currently sitting in the Eastern Conference's final wild card spot, but only one point ahead of the New York Islanders, who have a game in hand.

This could get very interesting as we close in on the final stretch of the season.

If the Red Wings miss out, people will look right to this seven-game skid — and that awful jersey ad — as the reason the wheels fell off.