Winging It In Motown: For Detroit Red Wings Fans

It’s a new season of Red Wings hockey and a new season of WIIM Radio for your listening pleasure. To get this season preview rolling, I was hosted by the always excellent Peter as we tag-teamed the topics nearest and dearest to our hearts. Here’s what we got up to: Thoughts from Preseason: Biggest positive (and negative) surprises from the full slate of preseason games for the Wings, to include the status of the defense, Cholowski’s big step forward, the big concern about Frans Nielsen and overall team health, and the struggle with wanting the team to be good and wanting to keep on the right rebuild track. The Roster Construction: We don’t outright say it, but Grand Rapids might be more fun to watch early on than Detroit. We’ve seem Yzerman construct AHL teams like this before in Syracuse and it very much looks like the kids are going to get the kind of experience to help develop their game rather than the tired old “learn how to be an AHL champ” company line we’ve been given. Season Expectations: While neith