How Red Wings’ newcomers can help team improve in 2021
Updated Jan 09, 2021;
Posted Jan 09, 2021
Bobby Ryan will play a top-six role and help the Red Wings on the power play. (Dan Mannes/Detroit Red Wings)
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The Detroit Red Wings could have as many as seven new players in the lineup Thursday when they open the season.
The acquisitions of forwards Bobby Ryan, Vladislav Namestnikov and Mathias Brome, defensemen Marc Staal, Troy Stecher and Jon Merrill, and goaltender Thomas Greiss provide the Red Wings with more NHL-quality players than they had during a disastrous 2019-20 season when they were buried in the league’s basement.