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Alex DeBrincat
There’s plenty of talk about who’s to blame for the latest slide out of the playoffs by the Detroit Red Wings.
One name you won’t hear mentioned is that of Alex DeBrincat. While just about everything around him is falling apart, DeBrincat is a rare wearer of the Winged Wheel in that he’s continuing to deliver the goods.
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Over the past 18 games, DeBrincat has accounted for nine goals and 15 assists for 24 points. He’s collected a point in 15 of those 18 games. DeBrincat has accumulated six multi-point games during this span.
Clearly, he’s doing his part to keep the Red Wings in the playoff chase.
While he’s juggled his lines in search of solutions, Detroit coach Todd McLellan has maintained DeBrincat with Patrick Kane and Andrew Copp as a consistent forward unit.
“We work so well together, play in their zone, and find each other,” DeBrincat said. “Overall, I think we’re pulling up, we’re finding guys, we’re getting chances, and I think that’s our bread and butter.”
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DeBrincat Assembling Impressive List Of Red Wings Milestones
DeBrincat leads all Red Wings skaters in goals (39), points (81), power-play goals (14), and shots (271) through 77 games.
He’s already established one team milestone this season and is on the brink of a few others.
DeBrincat is the first U.S.-born player to post an 80-point season. With 81 points, he’s already surpassing Lucas Raymond (80 points, 2024-25) and Henrik Zetterberg (80 points, 2010-11) for the most points by a Detroit player in a single season in 17 years.
During the 2008-09 season, the most recent one in which the Wings played in the Stanley Cup final, Pavel Datsyuk led the Red Wings in scoring with 97 points.
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Since the 1997-98 season, Datsyuk and Sergei Fedorov are the only Red Wings players to account for more points in a single season than DeBrincat’s 81 points this season.
With 39 goals, DeBrincat is two shy of his career high of 41. He set that total with Chicago in 2018-19, then equaled it in 2021-22, also with the Blackhawks.
If he nets one more goal, DeBrincat will be Detroit’s first 40-goal scorer since Marian Hossa in 2008-09. If he gets to 41, he’ll be even with Brendan Shanahan’s total for the 1999-2000 Red Wings. No Detroit player has scored more than 41 goals in a season since Shanahan netted 47 goals in 1996-97.
A Red Wings player hasn’t scored at least 40 goals in a season when the team missed the playoffs since current Detroit GM Steve Yzerman scored 62 goals for the 1989-90 team.
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