At the most basic of levels, you only need a few things to play hockey.
You need skates, a pair of gloves, a puck, a stick and a sheet of ice to play on.
However, to win at hockey you need something else.
Emotion.
Last season, amidst the injuries and physical fatigue the Red Wings suffered through, there was also, quite clearly, a lack of emotion.
Be it loving the game, hating to lose, or the joy of victory, a hockey team needs to be made up of players who are emotionally engaged, if winning is the intended outcome.
Love, hate, joy, those are all fine motivators.
Then again, just being plain pissed-off will work fine too.
Over the summer, there was talk of a return to dominance, of a re-awakened hunger, of a commitment to not succumb to the challenges of their collective age, but use their experience to their advantage.
That was all, of course, talk.
Whether or not any of that would translate into anything more than words, would be revealed once the season started.
Although there remains about 97 percent of the season left to play, it look ...
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