from Ansar Khan of Mlive,
“Youth can certainly energize,” Jeff Blashill, starting his fourth season as Red Wings coach, said. “These young guys, in order to help us, have to be better than the guys who have gotten those minutes previously. It’ll be a great challenge for our younger players, not just the new faces but the guys that are trying to step into bigger roles.”
The Red Wings will be starting a new era without Henrik Zetterberg, one of their premier players of the past 15 seasons and their captain since 2012 who essentially (not officially) retired due to back issues.