Column: Red Wings Reliant on Hope

Dylan Larkin The post Column: Red Wings Reliant on Hope appeared first on Detroit Hockey Now . Dylan Larkin In the wake of last night’s loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets at home, Detroit Red Wings Captain Dylan Larkin addressed the media scrum with eyes that seemed to be looking somewhere that wasn’t in the locker room. “I hope that’s not the one and I hope the Minnesota one is not the one that is the final nail in the coffin, and I hope that we get some help and we have something to play for.

To get in. ” Hope, it seems, is all the Red Wings have. They don’t have overwhelming skill, they don’t have a logic-defying goaltender, and still they don’t know what they’re doing wrong, apparently.

After faceplanting themselves into the back of the playoffs standings again this year, Detroit is on the outside looking in and despite the path ahead seemingly having a clear and in-sight endpoint, it doesn’t make it any less treacherous or painful. Facing the reality of ten years of no playoffs in “Hockeytown” even after the return of the moniker to center ice, fans are louder than ever in their cries for something to change. And they aren’t wrong to be demanding change, and answers.

This is the third year in a row where a disappointing March has led to the Red Wings having to dig themselves out of a hole they do not appear to have the ability to. More often than not, the Red Wings find themselves playing on their back foot against other teams as the final playoff push begins. “We didn’t like going down one to nothing that quick[against Columbus].