My sense is management/ownership is not looking to fire Blashill. They recognize the Wings lack talent, that the team is paying for all those years of making the playoffs and thus not drafting a high-end player (when the Wings selected Michael Rasmussen at ninth overall in 2017, that was their first time picking in the top 10 since 1991). They don’t have an elite defenseman, and they don’t have a superstar forward. Their best player, Dylan Larkin, only just turned 22....
When Dan Bylsma, formerly a head coach in Pittsburgh and Buffalo, was hired as an assistant in June, it spurred speculation there's a successor in place.