It has been four years since Mike Babcock left the Detroit Red Wings for the land of first-round exits versus Boston, I mean Toronto. In the past four years, the Red Wings have gone through some serious changes, in the 2015-16 season, Blashill led the Red Wings to a first-round exit of their own against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Since then the Red Wings have been… not good, well they’re rebuilding so what else can be expected. The 2018-19 season resulted in a 32-40-10 record where the Red Wings were they played themselves out of the Jack Hughes sweepstakes.