TSN’s Travis Yost is ranking the NHL’s teams by positional strengths and weaknesses, and he’s already discussed the NHL’s goaltending tiers and defensive tiers. Today, he ranks the NHL’s teams’ winger positions in a tiered format, and the Red Wings land smack dab in the middle (tier 3) due to Lucas Raymond’s presence:
Detroit Red Wings (T3) – Lucas Raymond is a top 50 goal scorer over the past two seasons, one goal shy of a player the calibre of Vegas’ Eichel and his 59 goals. With Raymond producing like this on an $8-million per year contract at the age of 23, it has the chance to chance to age as gracefully as any contract in the league.
Continued; between Raymond, Alex DeBrincat, Patrick Kane, James van Riemsdyk and big Elmer Soderblom, I’d argue that the Wings,’ well, wings are a bit top-heavy and just above average, but that’s just me.
