"Not that great"? I love the mid-90's Red Wings, it's one of the most ridiculous assemblies of talent in the history of the league. They won the President's trophy that year by going 33-11-4, which wasn't a fluke considering they did it again the following year. They then proceeded to lose a total of one game in the first three rounds. Yes, they got swept by Martin Brodeur. Kidd is not Martin Brodeur. Almost no one has ever been Martin Brodeur, and that was Martin Brodeur on steroids - goes from a .902 save percentage in the regular season to .927 in the playoffs. It was also the dawn of the dead puck era, with the Devils playing a trap that held Detroit to under 19 shots per game. Basically, #### Jacques Lemaire.
The '95 Wings featured, at forward, a still-prime Steve Yzerman, an on-his-way to the Hall of Fame Dino Cicarelli, Ray Sheppard and his 30 goals in 43 games (remember this was a lockout year), the Draper / Maltby / McCarty line when they were actually young, not to mention a young Keith Primeau. On defense, they not only had the 25 year old version of Nick Lidstrom, but also God-mode Paul Coffey who scored 58 points in 45 games
from the blue line. That tied him for 6th in the league, with Theo Fleury.
To reiterate, the Flames' best offensive threat had his output matched by the Wings' top scoring
defenseman.
On top of all of that, their second line and pairing was the first instance of the red army unit of Slava Kozlov, Sergei Fedorov the year before his Hart season (50 points in 42 games), Slava Fetisov and Vladi Konstantinov, which would have been about 25 teams' first unit.
That team was ridiculous and straight up destroyed everyone until they got to Lemaire's Devils and his top-3-goalie-of-all-time on a hot streak along with his trap system that ruined the league for eight years. "Not that great"... they were the class of the NHL.