The Detroit Red Wings missed the playoffs for the sixth straight season. However, this is one of the most important playoff series for the Red Wings and their undetermined future.
The Detroit Red Wings are not in the Stanley Cup playoffs for the sixth straight season. Not really a shocker, but still a bummer. I had really high hopes for the Red Wings this season and seeing them miss the playoffs and perform as they did sucks.
I suppose we should be used to that by now. But, thinking back to the late 1990s/early 2000s, they were so dominant and I chose to remember them that way as I’m sure many of you do. But, we’re not the same team we were back then. So much has changed and all we can do now is adapt and that is exactly what they are trying to do.
Last week the Detroit Red Wings organization announced that they will not be bringing head coach, Jeff Blashill back and instead will be looking to bring in a new coaching staff. Jeff Blashill is one of the winniest coaches in Grand Rapids history, but that didn’t qutie age well.
Blashill’s tenure with the Red Wings was a disaster and the fans knew it almost immediatley. He was not equpit to coach a team that was built the way it was. The dump-and-chase is a terrible scheme for the team they have assembled and Blashill losing his job I think shows that the organization feels the same way.
I’m sure by now you think this article is about Jeff Blashill, but it’s not really. I was just setting the scene for what’s to come in this article which is: This is thee most important playoff series for the Red Wings organization in some time.
Stanley Cup. (Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images) /
The Stanley Cup
The Detroit Red Wings are in the final stages of their rebuild. With so many talented players in their affiliate, and in the Juniors, it’s only a matter of time before they really make the jump to the playoffs. This wasn’t this year but that doesn’t mean it’s not important.
The Detroit Red Wings are in need for so many different things this off-season, and I expect that they are keeping a very close eye on some of the teams, coaches, and players out there. Let’s not forget the fact that they need to hire a head coach, and they need to fill some holes on their roster.
Watching and analyzing teams that may have coaches available to hire, players that are set to become free agents, this is the time to really dive into film and the game to figure out if any of them would fit what your trying to accomplish. Given the fact that they are in the playoffs, I’d assume they have the same goal that we have- to win the Stanley cup.
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Finding coaches out there that could fill our openeings would be ideal, and what would be even more ideal would be finding potential players to help fill out the roster on the defensive side. If they can use this time to analyze players on the teams in the playoffs, they could consider this a win. But, that is if they chose to pursue these players and coaches.
