The Trend Line · 2026-27 · awaiting opening night

Detroit Red Wings

State of the teamDetroit's rebuild stalled again: 92 points, and a sixth straight year on the outside that extended the NHL's longest active playoff drought to a tenth season. Alex DeBrincat (41 goals, 85 points) and Lucas Raymond led the offence, and Patrick Kane reached his 500th career goal along the way. Under coach Todd McLellan, the Red Wings remain stuck in the league's muddled middle — too good to bottom out, not good enough to break through. The Red Wings' offseason was marred by a bitter soap opera over captain Dylan Larkin's trade request. Detroit set a first-line centre as its asking price and found no match, while Steve Yzerman moved from general manager to senior adviser with no permanent replacement named. Patrick Kane signed with Chicago, and Viktor Arvidsson came in on a two-year deal. The new season starts tracking here at puck drop.
74
2021-22
80
2022-23
91
2023-24
86
2024-25
92
2025-26
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2026-27
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Team Points Pace

Cumulative standings points through each game of the season, one colour per year. The red line is this season. Toggle to season-total bars for the year-over-year story.

one colour per season · hover for game detail
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Goals For & Against

Offence and defence, by season or game by game. Lower is better on goals against.

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Player Production

Each column is a core player; each dot is one season. Red is this season. Toggle the metric; hover any dot for the full line.

red = current season · one colour per past year
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Ice Time Tracker

Who's getting more ice time? Average minutes per game, season by season — the clearest read on who's gaining, and losing, the coach's trust. Flip to power-play time to see who's on the top unit. Add any skater on the roster; click a name in the legend to hide his line.

Minutes per game, from official NHL ice-time data.
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Goaltending

Every goalie season, dot size scaled by games played.

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Team Engine

Under-the-hood numbers, season by season: faceoffs, possession (SAT% is what the analytics crowd calls Corsi; Fenwick is the same idea minus blocked shots — above 50% means this team controls play), special teams, and shot rates.

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Zone Time

Offensive-zone time is the why behind shot-attempt share (SAT%) above — a team that lives in the offensive zone out-attempts opponents. The line tracks how that's moved season by season; the bar is this year's split. Based on NHL player-tracking data.

No player-tracking zone data published for this team.
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