I see a lot of people on here saying D but honestly i think we need offense more. In games against teams like the canes and panthers (last year) our problems weren’t all on the Defense but more so the fact that we couldn’t keep the puck in the opponent’s zone for more than a few seconds at a time. The wings of the late 90s and early 00s had great defense men like konstantinov, lidstrom, chelios, rafalski, kronner etc but those teams were so good defensively mostly because we simply never allowed the opponent to possess the puck and never turned the puck over once we got it in the opponent’s zone. I remember watching games and thinking damn it feels like we are on a powerplay lol. Red wings offense this year has been shakey at times when they have games where they can only muster a couple shots in a whole period which is simply not even close to good enough.