NHL analysts: Red Wings' rebuild on right path

Dylan Larkin, center, Tyler Bertuzzi, left, Filip Hronek (17) and Anthony Mantha (39) are some of the young pieces at the center of the Red Wings' rebuild. (Photo: Adrian Kraus, Associated Press)

Detroit — The NHL playoffs are continuing with exciting games and nonstop action, but the Red Wings are nowhere to be found.

They haven’t been in three years, as the organizational rebuild continues, steady and painstaking as it has been.

The addition of Steve Yzerman as general manager, replacing Kenny Holland who was moved upstairs then moved on his own to Edmonton, has ignited renewed enthusiasm.

Yzerman was a Hall of Fame player with the Wings and built an impressive resume as an executive in…