Want to be a Successful NHL Franchise? Then Don’t be The Red Wings

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The Calgary Herald was recently offering a blueprint to the Calgary Flames on how to turn the team around. The Flames franchise was 29th in the 32-team NHL during the 2025-26 season. The first piece of advice the article offered?

Don’t be the Red Wings. “ Steve Yzerman was hired [as Detroit GM]in 2019 to help return the Red Wings to prominence,” writes Kent Wilson of the Herald. “There was a lot of initial faith in the “Yzerplan” when he left Tampa for Detroit, but so far, he has only managed to turn them into a perennial playoff hopeful that falls tragically short down the stretch.