Another day and more evidence the Red Wings will take likely take significant time to rebuild.
Ken Holland and the Red Wings completed no trades to bolster their flagging corps of defensemen or to move up in the NHL draft.
A raft of draft choices remained unspoiled, for this year and next, and Jimmy Howard and Petr Mrazek were both the property of the Wings by the end of the day Friday.
Hope spiked late last season, when Holland signaled he had fired a booster rocket in the club’s five-season long “rebuild on the fly,” at the trading deadline and became sellers for the first time in a quarter century, after missing the playoffs.