Where did Yzerman go wrong with the rebuild?

[SantosHalper]

Copp has shown some real chemistry with Kane these last couple of games.

The haters are going to be in shambles if he keeps it up.

Whatcha gonna do brother when Copp-a-mania runs wild on you!

 

[ShanahanMan]

Interesting comments from Friedman. Seems to be implying that either the guys aren’t ready or the coach has lost the room

https://x.com/i/web/status/1852029746596430076

 

[Shaman464]

Two problems:

1. Drafting has been going after high character, high floor, low ceiling players that leave the forward core to be severely untalented.

2. Trying to sign players who overachieved in their FA year on more talented teams to fill larger roles on a less talented Red Wings team hoping it would take them to the next level.

If Detroit had a couple more high impact kids bringing on Compher/Copp/Holl like players would be not great but not bad. But these two things combined leaves Detroit in the position to be too good to get high impact players in the draft and too bad to realistically make the playoffs in their current configuration.

 

[Hockeyfan2390]

sometimes a Michelin star chef will have a snack while the entree is baking in the oven. If we are having this same conversation in 2026 then yes I will concede the point. His timeline was and is the long road.

2026????

He cannot have an endless runway. It’s unacceptable if they’re not in the postseason this spring.

He’s in year six. It’s irrelevant what the team looked like when he got here.

 

[Hockeyfan2390]

What year of the Yzerplan is this...6 or 7?

I'm not so sure it's acceptable either way to be still this consistently lousy, ie slow, soft, lack of skill, poor decision-making, poor structure, inconsistent goaltending...

A bottom 10 finish should be seen as an abject failure from top to bottom...

Still lots of time to get going here but hard decisions need to be made

It isn’t. At all. And I’m stunned that there are still people saying that they want to wait until 2026 before really beginning to scrutinize him.

 

[DamonDRW]

I feel that most fans here consider our drafting positions throughout those years as one small thing that didn't matter a lot for where we are now. You can't do good rebuild in this league anymore if you don't draft 1/2 OA on a consistent basis.

frankly speaking, our rebuld already failed. some fans just cannot accept this fact for some reason. we have two options: start over again or build a good D with good goalies and test our luck with drafting star forwards 8n the following 3-5 years. I guess the latter option will be executed by Steve Y. we might get competitive again by 2028-2030.

however, the bottom line is that we are not making the playoffs in the upcoming 3 years.