(WXYZ) \u2014 Detroit Red Wings forward Alex DeBrincat is having the best season of his career, and scored his 40th goal of the season on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old Farmington Hills native has played in all 79 games for Detroit this season. His goal came on the power play in the first period, giving Detroit a 1-0 lead over the Philadelphia Flyers.<\/p>\n
According to the Red Wings, DeBrincat became the fourth Red Wings player over the last 20 years to have 40 or more goals in a single season. The last time it happened was Marian Hossa in the 2008-09 season with 40 goals.<\/p>\n
Before that, it was Henrik Zetterberg with 43 goals in 2007-2008 and Brendan Shanahan with 40 goals in 2005-06.<\/p>\n
DeBrincat is entering the final year of his contract with Detroit next season. He joined the Red Wings in 2023-24 and has improved every season while playing in every game.<\/p>\n
This season, he has 40 goals and 43 assists for 83 points and is a +11 on the ice. The 40 goals are the second-most he’s had in a season and his 43 assists are the most. The most goals he had in a season were 41, with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2018-19 and 2021-22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WXYZ) \u2014 Detroit Red Wings forward Alex DeBrincat is having the best season of his career, and scored…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5101],"tags":[11773,599,93,11774,5137,5,4,3358,5138,11775],"class_list":{"0":"post-549477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-red-wings","8":"tag-7-action-news-sports","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-red-wings","11":"tag-detroit-sports","12":"tag-detroitredwings","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-red-wings","16":"tag-redwings","17":"tag-wxyz-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116380021856364206","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}