Next wait begins. Los Angeles is gone, swept out by a Wings team gathering momentum and confidence, the standard ingredients that make them so dangerous. The Detroit News. Next series is key for Detroit. One weight lifted.
Next wait begins.
Now, the path grows familiar, and so does the passion. The next foe, after a possible eight-day rest, will likely be Colorado or St. Louis, an old nemesis or an old foil. The Avalanche would present a brutal test, capable of exacting a toll, in victory or defeat. They eliminated the Wings in 1996 in the series that forged Detroit's championship run, marked by Claude Lemieux's mugging of Kris Draper. Of course, that's not completely fair because Osgood was injured last spring, thrown in on a gimpy knee to try to rescue the Wings.