Plenty of notes on the bad luck and string of injuries, illnesses and issues for the Red Wings’ defense in this one, but the last section of the article on Evgeny Svechnikov is a bummer.
“I think he, at one point, really wanted to push to play this year. I don’t know if that’s going to be reality. I think, as he went through it, it looks like it might be a thing where he’s just got to get himself ready for next year, but I don’t know that 100 percent yet, so let’s wait and see how the recovery continues.