Go through the gallery to see Gregg Krupa’s rankings of the top 25 Detroit Red Wings players based on their value for the 2017-18 season.
Detroit – Neither one nor the other, an unresolved position.
Measuring the value of Detroit Red Wings players in the coming season, the first after not making the playoffs since 1990, leaves one betwixt and between.
Is a player valuable because of the contribution he may make in the 2017-18 season, or is his longer promise more important?
For two seasons, a changing roster has mostly underperformed. The sense has only grown that the Red Wings are less about the coming season, or perhaps even the next, than campaigns farther down the road.