and then ride things out until the regular season begins, at the earliest, to make a move, but it just makes more sense for the team to dip into the shallow free agent pool to find an offensive rearguard, or, as the Free Press's Helene St. James suggested , maybe find Niklas Kronwall a stay-at-home partner instead, because the Wings' inability to land a top-six forward leaves the team in no shape to trade a Filppula or Franzen as well as a top prospect away when other teams won't be getting into issues with having too many defensemen on one-way contracts or getting into cap trouble until just before the start of the regular season.  If you missed it, both the Free Press's Brian Manzullo and the Detroit News took note of the Wings as having 15-1 odds of Winning the Cup per Bovada; On Thursday we passed along the news that the Detroit Red Wings will be having a reunion of their famed Russian Five line (well, four of them anyway) at the Winter Classic alumni celebration in December. The line, of course, was the first time any team used five Russian players on the ice at the same time in an NHL game, and coach Scotty Bowman first rolled them out together on October 27, 1995, during a game in Calgary. The Red Wings went on to win the game, 3-0, with the line scoring two goals and combining for 15 of the team's 25 shots that