Barely ahead of Seattle if they are lucky.

i think this team is 15-22 in the league with room to improve

I’d say we have about 2 years more of being near last until we start to become at least a fringe playoff contender.

Can you imagine getting someone like Rossi or Raymond this draft, Owen Power or Aatu Raty next year and Shane Wright in 2022

That's what I'm looking forward to. It's hard to tell who we'll pick this year but I think we'll draft a forward (Rossi, Raymond, Perfetti). All of them have a high chance of becoming top 6 forwards within a couple years. Next year, I think we should draft a top LHD (assuming we don't win the lottery and take Raty), and getting Shane Wright in 2022 should put us on course to have another long playoff streak.

Rossi is LH, for the second time haha

Fictional

Haha I didn’t think it matters because I didn’t think people see it. Where do u see it

In 3 years it will really depend on who they draft with their 1st round picks. 2022 is the big year - if they can get a guy like Shane Wright then they will be well on their way back to the playoffs. They have a solid prospect pool already they just need to keep developing and adding good prospects for the next few drafts

It's highlighted on each players nametag - left or right side

I still can’t see it

if youre on desktop look at the legend right at the top of the page - it has a dark blue bar on the left or right side of the player 'cell' to show if they shoot left or right

Bold take thinking Seattle will be bad

The top 6 forwards look good, but the bottom 6 looks pretty weak. Depends on how those prospects turn out though, very hard to tell. Probably a bubble team or just below that.

The success of the Detroit Red Wings in the future is going to hinge on two very pivotal elements regarding their prospects:

1. How patient is the organization willing to be?
2. What quality of player will these prospects be insulated with when they do arrive?

It's key to recognize that the Wings are going to be awful for at least 2 more seasons. There's no way around it. With that in mind, I believe it's ludicrous that many AGMs have been projecting Seider, Veleno, and (to an extent) Zadina onto the NHL roster well before the potential for the AHL to cancel its season ever came to light. Neither Seider nor Veleno ripped the doors off of the AHL and would absolutely benefit from playing in an environment where they can hone their craft and have a chance at a winning season. Zadina - in my eyes - falls into this category too, but more in regards to how playing in a winning culture has an effect on prospect development. The Red Wings cannot afford to condition their upcoming players to losing.

Even if a Rossi or Raymond has the toolbox to play in the NHL, they shouldn't be near the big league for at minimum a year. Patience is a virtue. If the group of McIssac, Rossi, Seider, Veleno, and Zadina all play against men in Europe next year, they'll fare that much better against men back in the NHL, and they won't need to finish 31st to do it. Making sure that a future guy like Owen Power is absolutely ready to make the transition to the NHL is damn important too. Remember: Cale Makar took the extra year at Amherst, expect a name like Power to do the same.

This is why it's been really good for the Red Wings to find money in guys like Fabbri. Take those flyers on names that need a second chance over the next two years if attracting the big game UFAs is not on the menu. If they can't figure it out, no harm and no foul. If they manage to get their game together, they're a piece moving forward. I think guys like Bowey, Cholowski, Rassmussen, and Svechnikov very much fall into this category right now: they haven't met expectations and might have more to give. Giving them the room to run in the short term might reveal some of what they were drafted for. Otherwise, targeting guys like Galchenyuk in free agency is a super low-risk play to make.

Edmonton notoriously took the path of drafting the top guy at #1 then threw them to the wolves without any insulation. Hall and Nugent-Hopkins were expected to dig this team out from the dirt with Sam Gagner as the #1 or #2 center - depending on where RNH would slot that night. Justin Schultz went from the NCAA to being a top-pair defender and if it wasn't for the Penguins, Edmonton would have obliterated his career. Devan Dubnyk went on to be a Vezina candidate when he found a team that had the proper insulation and framework. Rebuilds do not work if there isn't a pre-existing core of guys that can mentor and play ahead of the rookies: leaving the fate of your franchise in the hands of an 18 year-old never pans out, hence why Edmonton's only managing now to see relevance but Buffalo is stuck floundering. Toronto had a strong cast of guys remain on the roster when Matthews, Nylander, and Marner joined the big club (Rielly, Kadri, JVR, Bozak) and insulated them sufficiently enough to get their franchise back on the right track. Detroit needs to do the same.

I don't think this will be the case with the Red Wings: Bertuzzi, Fabbri, Hronek, Larkin, and Mantha are a good cluster to add prospects to. Picking up Demko for essentially free doesn't hurt either. Keeping Dekeyser around as the "veteran" of the group has merit too. It will be important however, to make sure that this isn't the only cluster of "veterans" that names like Rossi, Seider, and Zadina are surrounded with. Unless the target is to take a high-quality prospect back in return - such as in the Demko for Eriksson trade - teams looking to use Detroit to shed cap are going to have to look at surrendering players that are more than just cap dumps. Guys like Tyler Johnson or Patrick Hornqvist in the last year or two of their deals would be perfect targets for Detroit: guys that have been there and could still handle middle-six minutes.

If the Red Wings play their cards right, the Atlantic division finds themselves another high-skill nightmare team to play against. By the time the Bruins and/or Lightning are on the decline in 2ish years, the Red Wings will be one of the teams poised to join Toronto at the top of the division.

I'm asking what have we done besides be bad and draft

Is that what you thought about Vegas as well who went to cup final in year 1?????

Were you implying that Detroit in three years would barely be better than a cup finalist if they were lucky? Meaning Cup winners if they were lucky? Lol