Adnan Virk

Three points back of a playoff spot currently.

With two games in hand, to be fair to them.

Adnan, it's not only year nine of the Iser plan, it will be year nine without the playoffs for a franchise that had made the playoffs 26 times in a row prior to this massive rebuild that they underwent, right?

So this really feels like a make-or-break year for the Red Wings.

And if they don't do it, considering how much ground, how much breathing room they built up for themselves at the beginning of the year, and if they just epically collapse down the stretch like this...

And they don't make the playoffs.

I mean, look, they still have a lot of great building blocks.

Mariette Sider is a fantastic player.

Lucas Raymond, Dylan Larkin, Alex Dabrink, it's a great player.

But it's almost like a where do you go from here?

Like something has to change.

And I think they might have to take a big swing and say, look, I know we've got this...

pipeline that we love with all this talent in it.

But it's time to take a swing and go after a big time superstar to pair with this nice core that we have because it's not working.

Whatever they've been doing is not working and they're falling apart.

Like I said, luckily they built up a bunch of breathing room for themselves because they were one of the best teams in the league for the first couple months of the season.

But man, if they miss the playoffs, it'll be an absolute disaster.

How about the emergence of Adam Fantilli as well?

This guy has really turned himself into a star player in this league.

And you look at this lineup like this is a talented team.