Sportsnet’s Ryan Dixon issues an early-August set of power rankings today, basing his rankings upon the offseason performances of teams’ general managers:
21. Detroit Red Wings – While you can certainly still talk yourself into some existing Wings players like Moritz Seider, Lucas Raymond and Simon Edvinsson moving the team forward, it just feels like Detroit needs an acquisition to give this thing a meaningful push.
Continued; at this point, I’d argue that the Red Wings would be wise to make an offseason move or two to address their top-six scoring and top-four defensive shut-down abilities, but I’m afraid that, given the relative quiet of the summer thus far…
We’re going to end up seeing “our team” try to battle through the first half of the 2025-2026 season banking on improvement from within, with any trade(s) happening closer to the 2026 trade deadline.
