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Red Wings, Hurricanes maintain a history from afar.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
MIAMI _ Detroit and Carolina have been in different conferences for 21 seasons, play each other only twice a year at most and have never met in the playoffs.
But there's a rivalry between them. It's a midget-hockey rivalry that mushroomed into evictions and a little extortion, NHL-style, between Carolina owner Peter Karmanos and Detroit owner Mike Illitch.
At least, Karmanos has claimed it all started with kids in the Detroit area in which both live.
Karmanos' software company, Compuware, and Illitch's pizza chain, Little Caesars, sponsored two of the most prominent midget-hockey teams in the Detroit area. Among those who dressed for either team are Eric Lindros, Mike Modano and Pat LaFontaine.
Karmanos once said Illitch didn't appreciate that Compuware regularly beat Little Caesars. Some of those around the Red Wings, which Illitch bought with wife Marian in 1982, felt Karmanos thought he was a better hockey man than Illitch.
Then, during the 1994 NHL draft in Hartford, Karmanos joined the NHL owners' club by buying the Hartford Whalers.
Karmanos also owned the lone U.S.-based team in the Ontario Hockey League, the Detroit Junior Red Wings. The major junior team drew a healthy 8,000 to 9,000 fans per night to Joe Louis Arena. When the Junior Red Wings' lease was up, they were evicted by the landlords _ the Illitches.
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