No captain to steer the ship, no player deserving.
The Detroit Red Wings are amid another rough patch in a season littered with them. The latest is a four-game losing streak with the past three showing up as blowouts with losses of 4-1, 4-1 and 5-1 to the New Jersey Devils, Boston Bruins and Pittsburgh Penguins respectively.
The team now sports an astonishing minus-106 goal differential, according to Detroit News writer Ted Kulfan, and is only seven away from the cap era record of minus-113 set by the 2014-15 Buffalo Sabres, according to The Athletic’s Max Bultman.