theScore is previewing each team leading up to the 2016-17 season.
The Detroit Red Wings have not missed the playoffs since 1990, but there's a very real possibility that Joe Louis arena will not host a game past the upcoming regular season, thanks in no small part to the premature departure of Pavel Datsyuk.
Here's a look at the projected depth chart for 2016-17.
LW | C | RW |
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Henrik Zetterberg | Dylan Larkin | Gustav Nyquist |
Justin Abdelkader | Frans Nielsen | Thomas Vanek |
Tomas Tatar | Darren Helm | Andreas Athanasiou |
Drew Miller | RileySheahan | Luke Glendening |
LD | RD |
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Danny DeKeyser | Mike Green |
Niklas Kronwall | Jonathan Ericsson |
Brendan Smith | Alexei Marchenko |
G |
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Jimmy Howard |
Petr Mrazek |
ANA | ARI | BOS | BUF | CGY
CAR | CHI | COL | CBS | DAL
DET | EDM | FLA | LA | MIN
MTL | NSH | NJD | NYI | NYR
PHI | PIT | OTT | STL | SJ
TB | TOR | VAN | WSH | WIN