Hockeytown Usa

[Young Guns]

Trying to forget about last season wont be easy. After making it to the conference final the season before and pushing the Minnesota Wild to 7 games the club expected better results. Detroit finished well out of the playoff race and had little to get excited about looking ahead to this season. However with only 10 players returning from last seasons disaster we believe the fans again have something to look forward to.

The biggest difference on the team will be in net. Going most of last year with rotating Johan Hedberg and Mike Dunham neither tender could step up to the plate. Now with a legitimate #1 goalie in Marty Turco it allowed the club to turn there attention elsewhere during the off season. The second biggest downfall after a goalie would have to be the teams defense. We were able to add some veteran players through trades and free agency and feel this is the best defensive corps we've seen in Detroit since Guns took over as GM.


06/07 Wings

Mark Recchi 77
Kristian Huselius 75
Tim Connolly 76
Mike Comrie 76
Jeff O'Neil 74
Ryan Malone 73
Lee Stemniak 72
Colby Armstrong 72
Antoine Vermette 72
Nik Antropov 71
Eric Christensen 71
Loui Eriksson 69
Andrew Ferance 73
Zbynek Michalek 72
Karel Rachunek 70
Josh Georges 71
Andrew Hutchensen 70
Lars Johnsson 67
Marty Turco 81
Brent Johnsson 75

07/08 Wings

Eric Cole 78
Kristian Huselius 78
Mark Recci 77
Lee Stempniak 76
Mike Comrie 76
Jeff O'Neil 75
Antoine Vermette 74
Tim Connolly 74
Erik Christense 73
Nik Antropov 73
Vernon Fiddler 68
Stefan Ruzicka 67
Tom Poti 77
Willie Mitchell 76
Fatty Morris 75
Andrew Ferance 73
Glen Wesley 73
Jason Cullimore 72
Josh Georges 70
John Klemm 71
Marty Turco 83
Brent Johnsson 72

Now for anyone interested in Klemm he is on the block but I would need a fairly good return. Either a 1st round pick and prospect or a player rated about the same but 20 years younger. Everyone should be getting about 5 emails each over the next couple days with some offers! (lol just kidding jimmy. But I couldnt resist)