DETROIT-- There are homecomings, there are father-son tales, and after that there is Jeff Petry coming home to bet the Detroit Red Wings and wearing No. 46, like his dad, Dan Petry, when provided for the Detroit Tigers. After Jeff # 46. Like dad, like kid. /IsEaRWSVI0 Detroit Red Wings August 15, 2023 Dan was working as a workshop analyst throughout a Tigers game on Bally Sports Detroit, the exact same local network that broadcasts Red Wings games. "My daddy got on collection, " Jeff stated at Little Caesars Sector on Wednesday. "He sent me a wonderful note. He stated he was really recognized and never ever saw that coming." You can see the satisfaction in Dan's face and hear it in his voice when he discussed the profession on tv. "You get an opportunity to watch your son bet the team that he expanded up venerating, with, obviously, that renowned jersey, " Dan claimed. "It's mosting likely to be very, really special. Hopefully I can obtain to a whole lot of video games." A pleased pop Dan Petry currently obtains to enjoy his child, Jeff Petry have fun with the Red Wings company after the group obtained the defenseman from the Montreal Canadiens. #RepDetroit/ lziW8YJgX5-- Bally Sports Detroit August 15, 2023 It's poetic, a home run from a PR point ofview. It also offers the Red Wings an expert, right-shot defenseman with ability. Yet it goes deeper than that. This is regarding a son who chased his own desire with his well-known father's support. Dan bet the Tigers from 1979-87 and 1990-91, winning the Globe Collection in 1984. The right-hander is tied for 10th in starts and 12th in victories in their 122-year history. Jeff was birthed in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Dec. 9, 1987, 4 days after the Tigers traded Dan to the California Angels. The household moved to California while Dan played there for 2 seasons, after that returned the Detroit area in 1990. After Dan completed his job with the Tigers, Atlanta Braves and Boston Red Sox in 1991, the Detroit area ended up being the household's long-term home. Dan, originally from The golden state, understood nothing concerning hockey, but he wanted to keep Jeff and his brother, Matt, busy year-round, so he placed them in baseball in the summer and hockey in the winter season. Well, Jeff fell in love with hockey. His room teemed with Red Wings things. He was always watching Red Wings games. He bet the Little Caesars young people program at Joe Louis Field, home of the Red Wings at the time. "It was always something I delighted in even more than baseball, " Jeff claimed. "It took me a while to finally inform my papa that and escape that, however hockey ?just meant a bit much more to me." The guys on he Jeff Petry trade information It was in secondary school at St. Mary's Prep in Orchard Lake, Michigan-- where the baseball field is now called for Dan, and where Matt is currently the supervisor of admissions and varsity baseball instructor-- when baseball and hockey ended up being way too much of a conflict for Jeff. "I actually mosted likely to my secondary school trainer at the time, and I said, 'It's concerned a point where I have to make a decision, and just how do I do this?'" Jeff said. "And he resembles, 'Just go home and be straightforward with. He's going to support you with whatever choice you make.' "And was right. I went home. He did provide him a phone call and advise him that something was coming, but he was thrilled that I had actually chosen what I intended to do and wished to make my own path. He was encouraging along the method and encouraging in that decision." After three seasons at St. Mary's, Jeff bet Des Moines of the United States Hockey Organization and was chosen by the Edmonton Oilers in the second round of the 2006 NHL Draft. After one more season with Des Moines and 3 at Michigan State, he transformed pro. The 35-year-old has actually played 13 periods in the NHL, creating 353 points in 864 games for the Oilers, Canadiens and Pittsburgh Penguins. He had 31 factors in 61 ready Pittsburgh last period. In baseball, Dan might censure Jeff's performance. In hockey, he couldn't, yet he might aid him in various other methods as a former professional athlete. For Jeff, it was the very best of both worlds. "I remember going out of hockey games, " Jeff said. "He goes, 'How 'd you play?' I resemble, 'Good.' He's like, 'All right.' He simply didn't understand anything. I suched as that he could assist with the psychological side of things, the what-it-takes, but allow me to simply type of head out in the hockey world and do my own point." Over the years, Dan Tigers Store, an identifiable face in Detroit, has been seen at Red Wings games in the equipment of Jeff's team. Jeff has returned in the offseason, intending to settle in the Detroit location after his NHL job, questioning what it would certainly be like to play in a Red Wings jacket initially. After the Canadiens obtained Jeff on Aug. 6, helping promote the profession that sent out defenseman Erik Karlsson from the San Jose Sharks to the Penguins, Montreal general supervisor Kent Hughes asked Jeff where he would certainly such as to go. Detroit was No. 1 on Jeff's listing. "You keep assuming in your head, 'OK, when is that possibility going to come? Can it come?'" Jeff claimed. "And for me, I always considered intending to play one year here perhaps at the end of my profession or whenever the chance came. To obtain that phone call yesterday was a really unique minute for me."