Was Yzerman’s Mistake Trying to Make Red Wings Better Too Quickly?
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The Wings wound up 17-49-5 for 39 points. That was the worst record of any NHL team by a whopping 23 points. Detroit captain Dylan Larkin, the lone survivor from that team still wearing the Winged Wheel, remembers how terrible those days were.
“I think for a lot of those years you go into the season and you want to make the playoffs,” Larkin said. “But realistically, was that going to happen? “I’m trying to say there was some years where it wasn’t really what we were trying to do.