Earlier this week I wrote an article covering comments made by the Detroit Red Wings’ senior vice-president, Jimmy Devellano, following Detroit’s elimination from the 2017 NHL playoffs. Devellano stated the “The rebuild is on” in Detroit, officially appearing to admit that the powers that be in Hockeytown may have seen the errors of their recent ways.
During an interview with Sportsnet on Thursday, Ken Holland seemed to pump the brakes on the whole ‘rebuild’ talk:
“I think we want to be competitive,” Red Wings GM Ken Holland said on Prime Time Sports Thursday evening.