Todd McLellan has a little under a full calendar year with the Red Wings, and they now sitting atop their division with the fiery coach.
It’s now been a year since the Detroit Red Wings parted ways with Derek Lalonde. Off the heels of a 4-0 loss to the St. Louis Blues where they were booed off home ice, the Red Wings did something they hadn’t done in over a quarter century: fire a coach mid-season.