Red Wings Playoff Tracker 2026

[lordstanley]

The Wings have gone 6-8-3 for 15 points in the past 17 games starting January 27. That's a 44.1% points percentage. For the entire season, the only team with a points percentage lower than 44.1% is Vancouver with 36.2%.

Here's the position of the Wings on January 26 vs other conference teams compared to today:

Tampa: Was 1 pt behind, now 7 points behind. So from -1 to -7

Carolina: Was tied, now 12 points behind. So from 0 to -12.

Buffalo: +6 to -11

Pittsburgh: +6 to -2

Montreal: +6 to -2

Boston: +6 to -2

NYI: +8 to -1

Philadelphia: +12 to +4

Washington: +12 to +5

Columbus: +14 to -1

Ottawa: +14 to -3

The only teams in the East the Wings have more points than since January 26 are 3 points more than Florida and 1 point more than Toronto. The only team in the West the Wings have more points than since January 26 are 5 points than Vancouver. That's it. They've played like a bottom 5 for a stretch as long as 1/5 of the season.

[Jason_R]

It was good to get Copp back. It will be better to get Larkin back. It looked like he was a full go at practice and is now a gametime decision. 

The Boston game was disappointing. They outplayed Boston. They had one goal waved off by a fraction of a second. Swayman stood on his head. Somehow Boston ended up with 1:53 of a two-man advantage AND a penalty shot. 

I still think Detroit gets in. 

[slothfacekilla]

 

[lordstanley]

Wings host Ottawa tonight, now just a point up on the Sens with the same number of games played. 12 games left for both. Wings need to stay ahead of the Sens and beat out one of the five underlined teams below in order to make the playoffs. Best hopes for help tonight are probably Carolina and Colorado.

Games to watch tonight and hope for losses:

Toronto at Boston (2pts up on Detroit, same number of games played)

Carolina at Montreal (2 pts up on Detroit, one game in hand on the Wings)

Chicago at NYI (1 pt up on Detroit, one game in hand for the Wings)

Columbus (1 pt up on Detroit, same number of games played) at Philadelphia

Colorado at Pittsburgh (2 pts up on Detroit, same number of games played)

Buffalo, Tampa and Carolina are now well beyond reach of the Wings and not worth tracking. Philadelphia (4 pts behind Detroit, one game in hand on the Wings) and Washington (5 pts behind Detroit, one game in hand for the Wings) are the least of the Wings' troubles.

Edited 12 hours ago by lordstanley

[lordstanley]

Can't blame the out of town scoreboard tonight. While Columbus and Montreal won, the Wings were gifted regulation losses by Pittsburgh, NYI and Boston. The door was open ... 

[lordstanley]

Ilitch and Yzerman have failed by not convincing the NHL governors to switch to a 60-game, 5-month regular season.

[Shinzaki]

6 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

Can't blame the out of town scoreboard tonight. While Columbus and Montreal won, the Wings were gifted regulation losses by Pittsburgh, NYI and Boston. The door was open ... 

And as usual..they failed to step through it.  This roster is stagnant...