from Damien Cox of the Toronto Star,
... For those of us who watched the Wings set a standard for the rest of the league for 25 years, it just seems so strange now. The team is weak. If there was a belief in some corners that the mere return of the sainted Steve Yzerman to the organization would immediately return the club to its winning ways, the early results this season have quickly disabused everyone of that notion.
Yzerman preached patience when he supplanted Ken Holland last summer, and there will have to be a great deal of it in the next few years.