from Dana Wakiji of the Wings' website,
"They're a good team," Blashill said after the team's optional morning skate. "The thing about the NHL, you catch a team at a certain time and their record might be this and two weeks later it might be totally something different because that's how close everybody is. I've said it time and time and time again and I think people get sick of me saying it but that's the reality. The league is so, so paper thin from one team to the next. They're a real good hockey team, look at the lineup.