Imagine what would happen if...

[Mister Ed]

• Datsyuk and Zetterberg played an injury free season
  
• Howard plays as well as his best year so far
  
• Tatar, Nyquist, Sheahan, Jurco all improve and put up more points
  
• Weiss comes back and scores 50 points
  
• Quincey plays as well as his second half last year
  
• Smith learns how NOT to cough up the puck so much
  
  Would the Wings win the Cup?

They would at least have a great chance of going far into the playoffs. Thing is there's a couple of things I don't see happening, especially the Tatar, Nyquist, Sheahan putting up more points. I think they will be better all around players, but the points might do down, a product of the sophomore jinx.

 

[RedWingsForPresident]

I think they'd at least finally get to the conference final. I'll take the healthy Datsyuk and Zetterberg please

 

[DanZ]

They would at least have a great chance of going far into the playoffs. Thing is there's a couple of things I don't see happening, especially the Tatar, Nyquist, Sheahan putting up more points. I think they will be better all around players, but the points might do down, a product of the sophomore jinx.

Maybe their PPG would go down a bit but I think all of them will put up more overall points simply due to the fact that they will be playing full seasons instead of 73, 57, and 42 games respectively.

I see Nyquist's PPG going down a bit or staying the same. Tatar I think will produce more. He created a lot of chances last season that he was not able to bury, and I think he'll learn from that. I think Sheahan will maintain a similar pace. Keep in mind that these guys are a lot older than normal sophomores so I think that'll make a difference with the whole sophomore slump thing.

 

[Frk It]

They would at least have a great chance of going far into the playoffs. Thing is there's a couple of things I don't see happening, especially the Tatar, Nyquist, Sheahan putting up more points. I think they will be better all around players, but the points might do down, a product of the sophomore jinx.

All 3 of them having sophomore slump's? Very unlikely.

One of them, sure, that's almost to be expected.

In terms of "putting up more points" keep in mind none of them player a full season I Detroit last year, and they will this year.

 

[Mister Ed]

All 3 of them having sophomore slump? Very unlikely.

One of them, sure, that's almost to be expected a

In terms of "putting up more points" keep in mind none of them player a full season I Detroit last year, and they will this year.

I do agree that in all, they might have more points than last year, but their PPG might go down.

 

[RedWingsDad]

• Datsyuk and Zetterberg played an injury free season
  
• Howard plays as well as his best year so far
  
• Tatar, Nyquist, Sheahan, Jurco all improve and put up more points
  
• Weiss comes back and scores 50 points
  
• Quincey plays as well as his second half last year
  
• Smith learns how NOT to cough up the puck so much
  
  Would the Wings win the Cup?

I think you need to add an 'Alfreddson re-signs' bullet to that list. I felt going into last year that the team was a cup contender if healthy. Datsyuk, Z and Alfie being one year older now is a negative, but the kids all having more experience I think is even more of a positive. Overall, if we re-sign Alfie, I think this is a better team than last year. Not to mention if Holland manages to pull off a trade during the season to bring a right handed D over.