The term “tanking” doesn’t seem to be in the Detroit Red Wings vocabulary. The team is playing well away from home with a few clipped feathers. A few is an understatement, with Mike Green, Trevor Daley, Justin Abdelkader, Thomas Vanek, Jacob de La Rose, and Michael Rasmussen recently added to the list.
The number of injuries pops off, but it has allowed the Detroit Red Wings to give an audition to players like Matt Puempel, Taro Hirose who is excelling and Ryan Kuffner along with the big physical presence on the blueline with Dylan McIlrath.