The Detroit Red Wings front office isn't instilling much confidence in local fans or those around the NHL, according to a survey by The Hockey News.

More than 1,300 fans responded to THN's six-question survey asking which NHL front offices are doing the best job and the Red Wings finished 29th, down eight spots from a year ago. Only the Vancouver Canucks and Colorado Avalanche fared poorer among fans around the league.

Worse yet, the Red Wings finished dead last when it came to each team's fan base.

Fans were asked to rate teams in six categories - roster building, cap management, drafting/development, trading, free agency and vision - ranking them on a scale of 1-5 in each.

The Red Wings' public opinion score was 2.4, putting them ahead of only Vancouver (2.1) and Colorado (1.9).

When it came to the opinion of each team's own fan base, the Red Wings were last at 1.9 and that's significant since THN said Toronto, Detroit and Vancouver had more of their own fans participate than any of the other teams.

"This is the most interesting result of the survey," wrote THN's Dom Luszczyszyn. "Remember that just four teams are less confident than the public and one of those teams happens to be the team in 29th, and it's by the largest margin too. The other fun fact? Detroit had the second largest group of fans in the survey, and boy are they pissed.

"Of all the fan bases, they have the least amount of confidence in what Ken Holland and Co. are doing. It seems that the goodwill earned from The Streak is mostly over in Detroit. A look at their cap situation and who they've committed big money to is bleak - and they gave most of those players no trade clauses, too.

"The Wings had 25 seasons of success, but there are dark times ahead with little confidence from anyone that the crew at the helm can steer the ship out of it."

Since last year's survey, the Red Wings went down in every category except drafting/development, where their score was once again 3.0. That put them in 20th place, according to public opinion.

Their biggest drop was in cap management, where they were 29th with a score of 2.3. Their score among Red Wings fans was just 1.4 in that category.

They were 28th in roster building (2.3), free agency (2.2) and vision (2.2) while finishing 26th in trading (2.3).

Finishing atop the survey were the Nashville Predators, who reached the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time after a big off-season trade that saw them send Shea Weber to the Montreal Canadiens for fellow defenseman P.J. Subban.

The Predators had a score of 4.2.

Rounding out the top five were the two-time defending Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins (4.0), Tampa Bay Lightning (3.9), Toronto Maple Leafs (3.9) and Carolina Hurricanes (3.7).

The Lightning, whose general manager is Red Wings legend Steve Yzerman, ranked No. 1 in voting by each team's fan base at 4.2 despite missing the playoffs last season after reaching the 2015 Stanley Cup Finals.