Talk:Red Wings' issues/@comment-101872-20060518141504

No matter what the Red Wings do, they will have a good team. They always have a good team, and SHOULD always be contenders. Their real problem, and the reason they aren&quot;t contenders every year, is their opponents. That is why they haven&quot;t gone anywhere in the playoffs in the last few years. They play horrible teams all year long, and get no competition. They can slack off, and still win their division by 30 points. Then when it comes time for the playoffs, they are rusty and get killed right away. I believe this was the second year in a row Detroit lost in the first round. What needs to be donw, is go back to the older schedule, where every team plays every team more times, instead of the new division plays division 8 times schedule. It&quot;s ridiculous, and hurts alot of teams.