from Ansar Khan of Mlive,
“They’re not pretty and they’re not fun and we’re at rock bottom,” Red Wings senior vice president Jimmy Devellano said of rebuilds....
“How it happened was when we decided, Kenny and I, three years ago, to start to acquire draft picks, we traded (Tomas) Tatar, (Gustav) Nyquist, (Nick) Jensen, (Petr) Mrazek, (Tomas) Jurco, (Riley) Sheahan,” Devellano said. “When you do that you weaken the team because all those players are NHL players. Now we’re at rock bottom.
“We would do it all over again. We couldn’t make the playoffs with those players, but they wouldn’t have us in last place either.