The time the Wings had their jerseys stolen and were forced to borrow jerseys from a junior team

Just when you think you've heard it all in the hockey world, you hear a story that absolutely BLOWS your mind. 

Check out this story about the time the Red Wings had their jerseys stolen ahead of a game against the Montreal Canadiens, via Instagram page Hockey Bukkake:

The time the Red Wings sweaters were stolen and they had to wear the jerseys of their junior team in a 1966 game.

The day before an NHL game between the Wings & the Canadiens....there was an old-timers fun-game was played in the afternoon at the forum between former Habs & a team of Red Wings alumni that also included then current Red Wing Gordie Howe.

Per NHL.com, a capacity crowd of more than 15,000 packed the Forum to see former Canadiens icon Maurice Richard, more than six years retired, score the tying goal against Detroit goalie Harry Lumley and see Ken Reardon get the winner with 1:16 remaining for a 6-5 victory over the Wings alumni.

Among the fans, were a group of 33 Univ of Montreal students, who were on a mission. It was winter carnival week, with a prize to be awarded for the most unique acquisition in an extracurricular scavenger hunt.

4 of these students hid after the game and in the middle of the night, wandered the forum halls.

They made off with the Detroit Red Wings' entire inventory of game sweaters, red and white.

The Red Wings noticed their sweaters missing the morning of their Jan. 22 game, so they urgently had junior-team jerseys that were a semi look-alike of the Wings sweaters flown in from Hamilton.

Elsewhere, the scavenger hunt bounty produced 2 fully loaded beer delivery trucks, a hearse that fortunately contained no body, a 6’ painting from a hotel, a radio stations news van & a bear from a downtown zoo who they somehow dressed in Howe’s sweater.

The Red Wings won the game 3-0 despite their threads.

The students may have got away with their prank had they not gone to the Forum for the Canadiens game four nights later bs the Chicago Blackhawks. They jumped on the ice at the final siren wearing the sweaters!

Still humiliated by the theft, Forum security and Montreal police rounded up the thieves and proudly hauled them off, charging them with theft.

In the end, neither the Canadiens nor Red Wings pursued the matter when the undamaged goods were all returned. All 33 frat pranksters were acquitted 13 months later.

The bear, its #9 jersey removed, had been returned to its home in the zoo to resume its life... as a Bruin.