Mike Wong

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Mike Wong (born January 14, 1955) is a retired American ice hockey center from Minneapolis. He played 22 games for the Detroit Red Wings in the 1975-76 season and was also a Minnesota Golden Gloves boxing champion. Wong is of Chinese descent.

He played junior hockey in Minnesota and represented the United States at the 1974 World Junior Championships in Leningrad, where he had no points in five games. He then played for the Montreal Bleu Blanc Rouge in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, scoring 27 goals and 41 assists for 67 points in the 1974-75 season.

Wong was drafted by Detroit in the 1975 NHL Draft. He started the 1975-76 season with the Kalamazoo Wings (IHL), scoring 42 points in 39 games, and was called up to Detroit on October 11, 1975. In 22 games for the Red Wings, he had one goal and one assist, with a minus-11 rating.

Over the next three seasons, Wong split time between Kalamazoo and several other teams: the Rhode Island Reds (AHL) in 1976-77, the Muskegon Mohawks (IHL) in 1977-78, and the Johnstown Wings (NEHL) in 1978-79. He retired from professional hockey after the 1978-79 season.

After hockey, Wong returned to Minnesota, living in Bloomington and playing for Buck’s Unpainted Furniture on a senior amateur team. He married his high school sweetheart and later coached his son Jason’s youth hockey teams. Jason went on to play junior and college hockey in Minnesota.