This was a rare sight.



Brendan Shanahan was holding court with the media on Saturday afternoon, in a corner of the Detroit Red Wings dressing room, with his tiny 1980s era shoulder pads and a cut under to his left eye. The latter of which he wasn’t explaining.



“A fight or a shot block,” he said of the blood. “Or maybe I just fell down and hit [Borje] Salming’s skate?”



We’ll never know for sure.



Shanahan had played and scored and won the Centennial Classic alumni game, with his old team triumphing over his new one. The Maple Leafs president was soaking in the moment, surrounded by other Hall of Famers like former linemate Igor Larionov and defenceman Nick Lidstrom, who he won Stanley Cups with in Detroit in 1997, 1998 and 2002.



He even found time to sneak into a back room and crack open a tall boy.



What was unique about it all is that Shanahan has kept an ultra-low profile...