It is something fans in Detroit have been dreading for a few seasons now, and something fans in other cities have been waiting for almost as long—the decline and fall of the Red Wings.
For those faithful to the Winged Wheel, it was simply a matter of preparing for the inevitable. All great runs eventually come to an end and just like the New York Islanders or the Edmonton Oilers of the '80s, the Red Wings' routine dominance over the rest of the league surely had an expiration date.
This season, those fans of other teams who wished to indulge in a bit of schadenfreude upon seeing the Detroit Red Wings summarily dismantled by injuries, seemed finally to be seeing their wishes come true.
The Detroit Red Wings will finally, officially, become an NHL-afterthought as they are destined to miss the playoffs for the first time in 22 seasons and, somehow, try to regain a shadow of their former strength in the seasons to come.
While a playoff berth is still a toss-up for Detroit (though the Red Wings now sit in the seventh spot in the East), any fears (or hopes) of a long, painful decline in hockey excellence in the Motor City are essentia ...
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