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Will the Red Wings Win Another Game This Season?

By John Manzo

UNIONDALE, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 21: Scott Mayfield #24 of the New York Islanders checks Luke Glendening #41 of the Detroit Red Wings during the third period at the NYCB Live's Nassau Coliseum on February 21, 2020 in Uniondale, New York. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
UNIONDALE, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 21: Scott Mayfield #24 of the New York Islanders checks Luke Glendening #41 of the Detroit Red Wings during the third period at the NYCB Live's Nassau Coliseum on February 21, 2020 in Uniondale, New York. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) /
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It’s early March, yet we’re asking the question. Will the Detroit Red Wings win another game this season?

This is not a joke. At 15-48-5, the Detroit Red Wings have been historically bad. It has been painful to watch all season long and it’s weighing on players.

For fans, the pain is almost over, but it might get darker before the dawn. The Red Wings have 14 games remaining before the season ends April 4 against the Tampa Bay Lightning, and the schedule wouldn’t be easy to navigate for even the best teams in the NHL, let alone Detroit.

The Red Wings statistically have the toughest strength of schedule remaining in the NHL according to Power Ranking Gurus, and it isn’t even close based on their “average opponent ranking” system.

Not sure how the site formulates this average opponent ranking, but the Red Wings’ average is 8.36, and the next closest is the Columbus Blue Jackets at 12.20.

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That’s almost a four-point gap for whatever that means, but even if you have no clue like I do as to what that means, it isn’t hard to see that Detroit has an incredibly hard schedule that starts Friday against former division rival Chicago Blackhawks inside Little Caesar Arena.

The team then continues the homestand against the Lightning and Carolina Hurricanes. If Detroit can’t get past a struggling Hurricanes team at home, it might be a minute before it gets a win.

It has five of the next six on the road against teams like Washington, Tampa Bay again, Arizona, Las Vegas and Boston…with a game at home against the Florida Panthers sandwiched in there.

Lose all those and its home games against the Philadelphia Flyers, Captials and a road game against the defending Stanley Cup champion St. Louis Blues.

April holds the two final games with a road date against the Toronto Maple Leafs before those pesky Lightning finish the season.

It’s wild to write this, but will the Red Wings win another game this season?

If so, which one?

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