Detroit Red Wings General Manager Ken Holland explains why the team traded goalie Petr Mrazek to the Philadelphia Flyers. Helene St. James/Detroit Free Press
Patience isn’t easy, and no hockey team wants a marketing slogan that says, “Please wait five years. Probably more.”
Building a contender is time-consuming, and it can be elusive. It is a trajectory on which the Detroit Red Wings are in the beginning stages as they seek to regain championship competitiveness after paving a playoff streak unlikely ever to be matched.
It's not an exact science.