At 34 years of age, Ott is the oldest active skater on the team not named Henrik Zetterberg. Ott will play his 15th NHL season for the Wings and, by all accounts, will do so passionately, but passion alone does not make him popular with Red Wings fans.
For starters, Ott is an old player on an already not-young team. It’s easy to look at his spot as third-line center and wish we had a young player getting some experience. His first appearance was not spectacular, but it also wasn’t terrible, and Mickey Redmond sure seemed to enjoy him.