I’m going to make no bones about it, when the Red Wings signed Steve Ott to a one-year, $800K contract this summer, we were less-than-thrilled about it.
Oh man I have said so many unkind things about Steve Ott to this point in his career. I don't see a reason to stop now.
— Winging It In Motown (@wingingitmotown) July 1, 2016
Ott will be around to help keep the flies off the kids that the Red Wings now don't have any space in their lineup for because of Steve Ott
— Winging It In Motown (@wingingitmotown) July 1, 2016
Since then, the logic that Ott’s hit can be completely buried and that it should be a race between Ott and Miller for that space in the lineup has come up and unfortunately died at the hands of the injury bug, to the point where “Ott or Miller” has become Ott AND Miller as the assumption.