Death, taxes, and the Detroit Red Wings struggling to build a competent blue-line since Nick Lidstrom's retirement. The three things that are certain in life, sort of. This team's defense has become the front office's elephant in the room, but the problem is that the elephant keeps getting fatter, and fatter. How are they going to fix it? Free agency? Negative. Working the phones, and making a trade happen? Maybe. Upgrading internally? Risky, but believe it or not that might be the safest option.
Ken Holland has painted himself into a corner with the logjams that exist all over the team.