Sportsnet’s Justin Bourne offers a 2-sentence summary of where he sees each and every one of the NHL’s 32 teams just before the commencement of the 2026-2027 season, and he offers this take on the Red Wings’ lot in hockey life:
Detroit Red Wings: Ten straight years of missing the playoffs and outside of Moritz Seider and Simon Edvinsson, there’s not exactly a young star to be found to fix it, all while Dylan Larkin asks out and Alex DeBrincat is appearing on early trade boards. The roster doesn’t even look bad, but they seem destined to hit 90 points and pick 14th.
Continued; I guess Lucas Raymond doesn’t count as a young star…
“and Alex DeBrincat is appearing on early trade boards”
It’s interesting that people are giving more credence to Nick effing Kypreos’s trade board than they are to the ADAMANT quote from Cat about absolutely, positively wanting to stay in Detroit.
“I guess Lucas Raymond doesn’t count as a young star…”
And yeah, what’s with that shit?
Hey, Garth. I’m puzzled as well as to why nobody’s paying attention to DeBrincat’s own remarks, and why Raymond is…Not very good?