What can Red Wings do to end playoff drought? Simon Edvinsson has one idea
Detroit — Simon Edvinsson has been in this position now several times in his young NHL career, and you can tell it's getting old. This was last month, after another disappointing Red Wings season ended, and Edvinsson, the Wings' talented young defenseman, was at the podium discussing what went wrong. Why the Wings were missing the playoffs for a 10th consecutive season.
Why the Wings fell apart in March and April, yet again. Edvinsson explained, but in the end, there was a sense of frustration. Edvinsson reiterated on occasion it was time for the Wings to get into the playoffs.
"No one wants to be here," Edvinsson said of sitting and explaining what had gone wrong. "I feel like everybody's done being here. It's the worst feeling you have, not going to the playoffs, and you know you're so close.
Everybody works so hard but we still don't get it done. "We really need to figure that out. " What made this season's elimination on the final full weekend of the regular season so hurtful was the way the season had gone for the majority of it.
The Wings flirted with the best record in the Eastern Conference for a good portion of the schedule. They were sitting comfortably in a playoff spot as late as January and February. Confidence, team-wide, was growing.
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