Ted Kulfan takes a look at the Detroit Red Wings' season-ending news conference with general manager Steve Yzerman and coach Todd McLellan.

Ted Kulfan takes a look at the Red Wings' 4-1 loss in Montreal which all but eliminates them from the playoffs for the ninth straight year and Panthers analyst Bill Lindsay is the interview guest on this episode of the OctoPulse podcast.

Ted Kulfan takes a look at the Red Wings' slim playoff chances after a 2-1 OT loss in St. Louis and ESPN reporter Emily Kaplan is the interview guest on this episode of the OctoPulse podcast.

On this edition of the Detroit Red Wings/Detroit News podcast, Ted Kulfan takes a look at the Red Wings' 5-2 loss in Denver on Tuesday and Ottawa Sun reporter Bruce Garrioch is the interview guest.

On this edition of the Detroit Red Wings/Detroit News podcast, Ted Kulfan takes a look at the Red Wings' slim playoff chances with 14 games left in the season and David Legwand is the interview guest.

On this edition of the Detroit Red Wings/Detroit News podcast, Ted Kulfan takes a look at the Joe Veleno trade with the Blackhawks and PWHL defenseman Mellissa Channell-Watkins is the interview guest.

On this edition of the Detroit Red Wings/Detroit News podcast, Ted Kulfan takes a look at the Red Wings' 5-3 loss against the Blue Jackets in the Stadium Series on Saturday in Columbus, Ohio.

On this edition of the Detroit Red Wings/Detroit News podcast, Ted Kulfan talks about Saturday's outdoor game in Columbus, the Ville Husso trade to Anaheim and Ducks analyst Brian Hayward is the interview guest.

On this edition of the Detroit Red Wings/Detroit News podcast, Ted Kulfan talks about the team's four-game sweep on the western road trip and Sportsnet draft analyst Jason Bukala is the interview guest.

Before Christmas, the odds of the Red Wings making the playoffs were less than one percent under coach Derek Lalonde.

After Christmas, under new coaches Todd McLellan and Trent Yawney, Detroit has gone 15-4-1 and the odds, according to moneypuck.com/predictions, are 50-50 of ending the franchise's eight-year playoff drought.

"As we sit here doing this podcast, I would be a little surprised at this point if they didn't make the playoffs," Kulfan said. "This has been about as good as they've played in years, quite honestly. The one thing which really stood out during this four-game road trip, you kind of expected them to win during points in these games."

On this edition of the Detroit Red Wings/Detroit News podcast, Ted Kulfan talks about Dominik Shine's successful NHL debut at age 31 and NHL podcaster Julie Petry is the interview guest.

After nine years in the minor leagues, Shine played in Monday's 5-2 win over the L.A. Kings and he'll make this week's road trip which begins Thursday in Edmonton (9 p.m., FDSN, 97.1).

"It is a great story," Kulfan said on the podcast. "You need these type of stories throughout the course of a long season. I think the team really embraced it last night. He's kind of an everyman Joe. He's 31 years old, a career minor leaguer from the area, from Pinckney and went to play at Northern (Michigan). He's stayed in Grand Rapids since 2016 because he wants to build a base for his family."