The Red Wings – Avalanche brawl was a large scale on-ice melee that occurred March 26, 1997, at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan, United States, between two National Hockey League rivals, Colorado Avalanche and Detroit Red Wings. The brawl, alternatively called Bloody Wednesday, Fight Night at the Joe and Brawl in Hockeytown, stemmed from a previous on-ice incident between the two teams during 1996 Western Conference Finals: a controversial hit by Claude Lemieux on the Red Wings' Kris Draper.