The Detroit Red Wings certainly hope to make the Stanley Cup Playoffs in 2025. Detroit nearly made it in 2024, but fell short by virtue of a tiebreaker with the Washington Capitals. The team has leaned a bit more toward a youth movement as they relied less on splashy free-agency moves over the summer.

In an offseason that saw the Detroit Red Wings overhaul their roster with several acquisitions came the subtraction of some players. Whether through trade or contract expiration the Red Wings saw some players that played a big role on the team last season leave the organization.

Despite only minor changes in personnel, the Detroit Red Wings so far have been unable to duplicate last season's success on penalty kills.

Detroit Red Wings J.T. Compher, Moritz Seider & Derek Lalonde, Nov. 11, 2024 in Detroit.

Detroit Red Wings penalty kill is in disastrous shape. The Red Wings have successfully killed just 65.0% of the penalties they've faced, going 26/40 thus far. That's 31st in the NHL (only better than the Edmonton Oilers) and comfortably worse than last season's worst NHL PK,

Bryan Rust knows there are plenty of questions about the Pittsburgh Penguins at the moment. And the right winger acknowledges the solutions aren’t plainly obvious. “If we would have had all the answers,

Jonatan Berggren and Patrick Kane also scored for Detroit, which had lost its last two games ... Rust cut in off the left wing, going around Red Wings' defenseman Moritz Seider. Rust then skated across the top of the crease and swept a forehand shot ...

Penguins forward Blake Lizotte left at 16:24 of the first period after taking a puck to the face from teammate Drew O'Connor. Lizotte was down in the Red Wings crease before going to the locker room while holding a tissue to his face.