He endured the worst season of his career, but there are reasons to be encouraged he can recover his footing.
In this edition of Detroit Red Wings Fast Forward, a series that projects how a player will perform in 2020-21, the subject is Frans Nielsen.
The 36-year-old Dane is coming off a dismal 2019-20, in which he recorded four goals and five assists in 60 games. He didn’t score a goal until after the Christmas break, recording one Dec. 28 at Florida. He scored twice Jan. 7 vs. Montreal — remember, of the Wings’ 17 victories this season, four were against the Canadiens — and then didn’t score again until Feb.