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Detroit Red Wings' final grades are in. Here's who passed and who flunked

Detroit Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman touched on numerous topics during a rare news conference. Filmed Feb. 24, 2020 in Detroit. Detroit Free Press

Steve Yzerman spent his first year as general manager of the Detroit Red Wings observing and assessing.

As a team, there wasn’t much to like. It was dismal — a league-worst 17-49-5 (even 30th-place Ottawa had managed to win 25 games when the season was shut down March 12 because of the coronavirus pandemic). The Wings had the worst offense (2.00 goals per game), defense (3.73 goals-allowed per game) and penalty kill (74.