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The Daily: Few Goals, Few Wins for Red Wings; Avs Up Next

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2 months ago

December 6, 2024

Detroit Hockey Now’s Bob Duff story explains in detail how the Detroit Red Wings fell 2-1 to the Ottawa Senators Thursday night while most sports fans in Detroit were watching the Green Bay Packers-Detroit Lions tilt.

If you want the abridged version of what’s happening to the Red Wings, it goes like this: Detroit was ninth in the NHL scoring last season at 3.35 goals per game. The team is 27th this season at 2.54.

When you are scoring two or fewer goals in 53.8% of your games, you aren’t going to win enough games to qualify for the playoffs. That’s true, even if your defensive play and goaltending are improved.

The hard truth: Dylan Larkin and Lucas Raymond are playing well. But on the nights they don’t score, winning becomes far less probable. Larkin has one goal in his past seven games and Detroit is 0-2-2 in the last four.

Red Wings can you score a goal on the Senators pretty please?

— riley (@moreitscider) December 6, 2024

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