I am merely posting this for completeness’ sake. In yet another set of preseason “power rankings,” this time in the fantasy hockey department, Detroit is ranked below both Buffalo and Ottawa, as 7th in the Atlantic Division, by DobberHockey’s Filip Livingstone:
7) Detroit Red Wings: The Red Wings finished ninth in league scoring just a season ago and with a top-six forward group that flaunts the likes of Alex DeBrincat, Dylan Larkin, Lucas Raymond, and two of the more lethal offensive vets left in the sport in Vladimir Tarasenko and Patrick Kane, Detroit should be a tough offensive group to handle – especially on the man advantage where last year the Wings finished ninth in power-play proficiency. The four-headed monster in Detroit’s blue paint is definitely the biggest concern and fantasy red flag for this organization, as Ville Husso, Alex Lyon, and newly-added Jack Campbell and supposed starter Cam Talbot are all vying for minutes which could ultimately lead to a lot of time sharing and split starts. If one of those aforementioned netminders manages to take the crease and be a clear-cut starter then the Wings likely have enough talent to knock on the door for a wild-card spot but that is an if we don’t want to risk.
Continued; no mention of the Red Wings’ defensive corps, for better or worse…But I’m not buying that the team that finished a tiebreaker away from a playoff spot is behind the teams that didn’t finish as closely to a playoff spot.
And it’s “That is an ‘if.'” You have to put quotation marks around the “if,” or it just reads sloppily.
I’m not normally one to criticize others’ grammar–goodness knows that it’s the internet, and we are not writing English papers here–but that’s a particular “pet peeve” of mine (no quotation marks necessary, but added for emphasis anyway).
