Red Wings Draft Gem Becomes First Player in College Hockey To Reach Major Milestone
Red Wings prospect Max Plante shatters scoring records, becoming the first NCAA player this season to hit 40 points. Hobey Baker buzz builds.
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Again, I'll ask, do you think it's safe to say that the Yzerman rebuild is finally working with this hot start?
Or do you have any concerns about what the Wings are doing and their playoff hopes, and, you know, could that change in the second half of the season?
The Detroit Red Wings defy logic.
They are, they are a negative goal differential in a playoff spot.
Minus five.
Their two goaltenders both have save percentages under .900.
They're doing it mostly on, you know, the offense of Dylan Larkin and Alex DeBrincat.
They're not particularly great defensively.
They seem to, when they lose a game, they lose it by leaps and bounds.
And then they win the close games.
Hey, that's a winning formula.
If you, if you can, If you can get that, be my guest.
But I, I'm skeptical whether it, it's manageable, and they can have that carry forward in the second half of the season.
I mean, they're, they, you know, I can only use, like, the examples of, like games that they played against Toronto, where they, won one game in overtime, and they won the other two games by one goal.
They're winning close games.
That, you know, it-that is a winning formula in a very tight Eastern Conference.
But I don't know whether they can continue this, and I think other teams are starting to sort of wake up right now in the Eastern Conference could conceivably catch them.
In the second half.
