I've often had the feeling in recent years that the Wings are a team where players come to get worse. So do they have really poor coaching and development people? I don't think TM is a bad NHL coach, but guys are not exactly blossoming under his coaching when they come up here either. Does Yzerman have a toxic philosophy about how to manage young players that has been enforced by him only hiring coaches that share the view and they are all just wrong?
An org that can't progress has to make changes if that is going to change. I get that there are a lot of reasons CI is going to be slow to fire SY, but I can at still hope Ilitch would at least tell Yzerman that it's time to turn over his staff if he wants to remain the guy in charge. They just are not accomplishing anything more than 'about average' and you can't get better with that FO performance level.