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Holmstrom is expected to make his retirement official soon. (Getty Images) Season Preview: | | | The already said goodbye to one long-time Red Wing in the last year, and it sounds like Joe Carter Jersey they're going to make it two.Tomas Holmstrom, 39, spent the last 15 seasons with the Red Wings after they made him a 10th-round draft pick back in 1994. After last season his contract expired, making him a free agent. He was left to ponder the po sibilities of playing elsewhere or returning for another season with the Wings. Because of the lockout he had even longer to think it over, but it appears now his mind is made up.According to Ansar Khan of MLive.com, the expectation is that Holmstrom will be joining Lidstrom in .If that's the case, then the Red Wings have had plenty of time to think about what they're going to do sans Holmstrom. It's not like they had much of an opportunity to actually do anything, but there was ample time to prepare. Holmstrom, who played his 1,000th game last season, had 243 goals with 287 a sists in his career with the Wings. Almost exactly half of those 243 goals came on the man advantage (122 even strength, 121 on the power play) as Holmstrom could always be found in the dirty areas. Last season, for example, Holmstrom had 11 goals, 10 via the power play. He had double-digit power-play goal seasons in seven of this the last nine seasons.So Holmstrom joins Lidstrom on their way out as Red Wings, ushering in a new era in Detroit. Since Lidstrom had been wearing the C these past years, the Wings are in need of a new captain. Khan says the , as expected.It's going to be a season of transition in Detroit, something we're not terribly used to seeing. It would appear to be out with the old and in with the new. No matter, though, it seems the faces change but the succe s more or le s stays the same in Detroit. Fred Mcgriff Jersey |
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