The Detroit Red Wings are in position to qualify for Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time in 10 seasons, sitting in a wild-card position in the Eastern Conference with 15 games remaining on their schedule.<\/p>\n
The Red Wings have not made the postseason since losing to the Tampa Lightning in five games in the first round of the 2016 playoffs.<\/p>\n
But, if Detroit (36-23-8) can hold on across the final month of the season, they will end a drought that has been a source of consternation in \u201cHockeytown\u201d for the past decade.<\/p>\n
The journey starts when the Red Wings host the Calgary Flames at Little Caesars Arena in the Prime Monday Night Hockey showcase (7:00 p.m. ET; FSDNDET, Prime).<\/p>\n
So many players have stepped to the fore for the Red Wings this season, but who has been the MVP for Detroit?<\/p>\n
That is the question before a panel of five NHL.com writers. Here, in alphabetical order, are the answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Red Wings are in position to qualify for Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-543258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}