Jeremy Laura: Winnipeg rolls Wings 6-2, Detroit needs to make some changes

Lyon regressing to that AHL goalie he was for most of his years.....
At least the Wings clicked on 2 PPs..........
Looks like CBJ passed the Wings in pts..........
Maybe Detroit figures it out by Saturday when Buffalo comes to town..........

Too much baggage on this team that doesn’t belong. And there are at least six pieces of luggage revolving around the turnstile that need to be removed.

#1 Lalonde is Blashill 2.0 plain and simple.
#2 Veleno is Riley Sheahan 2.0 and we know how his career turned out.
#3. Rassmusen is a total disappointment who requires a sticker on his forehead that reads THIS SIDE UP. The mere breeze from a passing player knocks him on his a$$. He works hard, but the talent just isn’t there.
# 4-5-6 Fischer, Watson and Holl have no business on this team and are AHL calibre on the best of nights.
Yzerman needs to make changes to this BAGGAGE DEPARTMENT soon, or else this team will be golfing by Thanksgiving…..metaphorically speaking.

The Defense is a mess and a learning work in progress, that’s a given for young kids. But, unfortunately there’s not a glimmer of a Lidstrom, Chelios, Raflaski, Fetisov or a Murphy among any of them. Tis still very early, but thus far the talent is painfully absent.

Even the anointed one Moritz Seider, couldn’t lace up these stars skates.
Don’t get me wrong, Seider isn’t in the baggage department. Seider is a good defensemen, but far from GREAT. Remember, he didn’t even place in the top fifteen in the league last season. There will never be another Lidstrom out of this present squad, for all you wishful thinkers out there. Seider’s achilles heel in his young career IMO is his skating. His foot speed isn’t blazing and at an even up race or half a stride behind, he gets out skated more often than not. His transition forward to backward and vice versa is either awkward or toe picking losing speed too often. I’ve seen it recur on numerous occasions.
Kyle Conner made Seider look bad blowing by him last night. And no different than McDavid, MacKinnon, Panarin, Makar, Matthews and any number of other stars that could make him look just as silly on any given night. Mo has a long long way to go to get the GREAT or STAR moniker.
His skating mobility needs to improve or else just like tonight, he’ll find himself impersonating a pylon much too often.

Time to roll up those sleeves Yzerman and try to fix this mess.

I've been saying it for a while that their defensive system is complete garbage. It's a system designed to fail and with how this roster is built, it makes it even worst. Last season they outscored a lot of their problems. They lost some offense in the off-season and now they can't do that most of the time anymore.

Yzerman needed to improve the defense in the off-season and he failed miserably. So they lost offense and their defense is worst. Unless Yzerman can pull off some trades and improve this defense, this is not a playoff team at all.

The team also lacks grit and toughness. They have some big guys but most are soft as butter. There is no identity to this team.

I expected them to be worst than last season and so far they haven't disappointed me. I'm sure some people will say "well it's only been 10 games" but all you have to do is really look at how they play, their system and the roster to see they are very flawed. That defense needs at least two very good top 4 defensemen for them to have any chance at the playoffs. Seider is the only top pair guy they have. Edvinsson could be fine on the 2nd pair with a solid RHD partner. The rest are bottom pairing guys.