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Red Wings 2021 final grades: Progress due to defensive improvement
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Playing in a nearly empty Little Caesars Arena during this COVID-affected season exemplified how strange 2021 was for the NHL and the Red Wings. (Mike Mulholland | MLive.com)Mike Mulholland | MLive.com
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Nobody scored more than 11 goals in games played with the Red Wings.
Their goals per game was marginally better at 2.23 (from 2.00) but the power play worse.
They still improved in points percentage, from .275 to .429, due to better team defense and solid goaltending.
The Red Wings (19-27-10) finished with nine more points (48) in 15 fewer games than in 2019-20 (17-49-5), despite a rash of injuries and COVID-related absences to key players.
Red Wings’ Steve Yzerman has long to-do list this offseason
Posted May 10, 2021
Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman has a lot of players to sign this offseason. (Ansar Khan/MLive)
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Now that Steve Yzerman’s second season as Detroit Red Wings general manager is over, the bulk of his work begins.
Yzerman has many items to cross off his checklist before players gather for training camp in mid-to-late September, in preparation for an NHL regular season that will start a week later than usual, on Oct. 12.
One task, figures to be completed quickly, as Yzerman indicated last month he will speak with coach Jeff Blashill immediately after the season to discuss his future.
Red Wings wrap up season seeking to avoid Central cellar
Updated May 08, 2021;
Posted May 08, 2021
Detroit Red Wings forward Valtteri Filppula, left, controls the puck in front of Columbus Blue Jackets forward Oliver Bjorkstrand during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Columbus, Ohio, Friday, May 7, 2021. The Red Wings won 5-2. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon)
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The Detroit Red Wings wrap up what has been one of the most bizarre seasons in NHL history tonight in Columbus, needing one point to avoid the Central Division cellar.
The Red Wings (19-27-9) are one point ahead of the Blue Jackets (17-26-12) and hold the tie-breaker (more regulation wins), so if the teams finish tied, Detroit, technically, would be in seventh place and Columbus eighth.