[Loki309]

This is an opinionated blog post from Fox sports on MSN (heres your link to the full story FOX Sports on MSN - NHL - Red Wings have set themselves up to repeat)

With the start of NHL training camps only a month away, pundits and bloggers will soon make predictions as to which club will win the Stanley Cup in 2009.



The defending champion Detroit Red Wings will likely be the consensus pick to become the first club since the 1998 Red Wings to repeat, although that was a considerably different version from the club that won it all this year.


Most experts will point to the Wings keeping their Cup-winning roster practically intact while adding more offensive punch in winger Marian Hossa as the reason they'll win it in 2009. Some might even be tempted to suggest the Wings could become the first team in over a quarter century to win three consecutive Cups.

[Oli Jokinen!]

I doubt Detroit will win it again.

[Loki309]

Originally Posted by Oli Jokinen!

I doubt Detroit will win it again.

Why not?

They have the talent, they have the staff. Only things they don't have is an idea of the unknowns they will face. Injuries, other teams trades, fights, lack of drive and determination. If everything falls into place I see them as the strongest in the NHL.

[blueandwhite]

we will have no idea until play starts - and even though, no one can say until post starts. it's all guess work.

[Seahawker 562]

If I had to choose right now, it would have to be the wings.