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The Wings Without Zetterberg

from Ryan Lambert of Yahoo,

Moreover, Zetterberg was on the ice for 78 of Detroit’s 212 goals for — nearly 37 percent — and if you can see Nielsen, Glendening or, I don’t know, Darren Helm driving offense like that, well I have a brand new arena funded with public money to sell you. Which is, I guess, the problem. This team doesn’t seem like it has four NHL centers without Zetterberg, and you were already stretching that definition when he was healthy.

The Red Wings scored just 134 goals in about 3,385 minutes without Zetterberg last season (just 2.