Detroit Red Wings coach Todd McLellan doesn’t want to talk about Marches of the past, but we’re going to anyway.

Three years in a row, the playoff chances of the Red Wings have flamed out in the third month of the calendar year. This March, Detroit is off to a 0-1-1 start.

Ottawa and Columbus are closing in on the Wings.

Ominous? Perhaps.

This time, though, things should turn out differently.

The moves the team has made in the past few days, both internally and externally, should address one of the major problems facing this team. That’s a lack of consistent secondary scoring.

Additions Should Boost Scoring

Coming in through a trade with St. Louis, defenseman Justin Faulk has 11 goals this season. That puts him in a tie for 12th among NHL rearguards.

“He is a confident young man who has played a lot of games and produced year after year,” McLellan said.

“I’m pumped to have him. I think all the Wings fans should be super happy to have him.”

David Perron on returning to Detroit & his chat with Justin Faulk » https://t.co/ryhYAl0uaP pic.twitter.com/YjgSHqOxcZ

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David Perron, acquired from Ottawa for a second Red Wings tour, has 10 goals this season. It’s his 16th NHL campaign in which he’s accounting for double-digits in goals. From 2022 to 2024, Perron scored 41 goals with the Red Wings.

Summoned from the AHL Grand Rapids Griffins, winger Michael Brandsegg-Nygard is on fire. He’s scored six goals and has nine points over the past five games.

He didn’t score in a nine-game stint with Detroit at the start of the season, but it appears the chance to play top-six minutes in GR has allowed Brandsegg-Nygard to find his scoring touch.

“We’ve got to get some offense,” McLellan said. “We need somebody who can score. Well, he’s been doing that down there.”

UPDATE: The #RedWings have recalled John Leonard from the AHL’s Grand Rapids Griffins under emergency conditions. pic.twitter.com/8ghYBRVfAr

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So has forward John Leonard, who was summoned from GR on Sunday. He’s accounted for 27  goals in 34 games with the Griffins. Leonard scored twice in a nine-game stint with Detroit earlier this season. He looked both comfortable and creative in a Red Wings uniform.

Several Red Wings Stuck in Goal-Scoring Droughts

Several Red Wings forwards are enduring significant dry spells when it comes to potting goals. It’s been 16 games without a tally for Andrew Copp. Forget about goals; Michael Rasmussen is mired in a 19-game pointless drought.

Oh, and by the way, with captain Dylan Larkin out, those players figure to be two of Detroit’s four centers in Sunday’s game at New Jersey against the Devils.

Mason Appleton is 22 games without a goal, and James van Riemsdyk has gone goalless for 12 games. JT Compher hasn’t scored over the past 10 games.

Patrick Kane has one goal in 18 games, while Marco Kasper has a solitary goal over the past 10 games.