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<blockquote data-quote="Mark_ab" data-source="post: 2706813" data-attributes="member: 541433">Bertuzzi, like with Forseburg, unfortunately to a greater extent, is a gamble. Detroit has great offensive depth with the likes of Zetterberg, Datsyuk, Holstrom, Lang, and Cleary, as well as some excellent positional defense in Lidstrom, Chelios, Schneider, Lebda and Markov. If you haven&#039;t already, take a look at Lidstrom&#039;s hit totals this year. He&#039;s right on par with Zetterberg and Datsyuk. It&#039;s not too often you can be the best in the league as a defenseman and pull those kind of low numbers. All that tells you is his percentage play is absurdly high and he has tremendously effective stick work to complement that positional angling. Bertuzzi has played all of 7 games this season and hasn&#039;t proven himself. The trade is pending him passing a physical, but I doubt that will be a problem. Bertuzzi&#039;s gameplay can be adapted to the Wings without much issue. What it boils down to is chemistry, and health. You need both, and if one is missing I&#039;d be hoping for those draft picks back. But it could be worse...you could be Florida.The one glaring problem I see in Detroit as a whole, especially come playoff time, is that they are an easy team to play. They are a fast skating, very fast passing team, and their style of play doesn&#039;t equate to a physical game. A fast forechecking, hard hitting team can wear on them, as the Oilers proved last year, and as Anaheim proved before that. What I think Detroit should have done is to get a little more physicality added to their lineup. Although they may get by the first, and even second rounds, they won&#039;t be without injury, and definitely will be feeling the effects in their legs. I look at the Wings being out in the second round.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mark_ab, post: 2706813, member: 541433"] Bertuzzi, like with Forseburg, unfortunately to a greater extent, is a gamble. Detroit has great offensive depth with the likes of Zetterberg, Datsyuk, Holstrom, Lang, and Cleary, as well as some excellent positional defense in Lidstrom, Chelios, Schneider, Lebda and Markov. If you haven't already, take a look at Lidstrom's hit totals this year. He's right on par with Zetterberg and Datsyuk. It's not too often you can be the best in the league as a defenseman and pull those kind of low numbers. All that tells you is his percentage play is absurdly high and he has tremendously effective stick work to complement that positional angling. Bertuzzi has played all of 7 games this season and hasn't proven himself. The trade is pending him passing a physical, but I doubt that will be a problem. Bertuzzi's gameplay can be adapted to the Wings without much issue. What it boils down to is chemistry, and health. You need both, and if one is missing I'd be hoping for those draft picks back. But it could be worse...you could be Florida. The one glaring problem I see in Detroit as a whole, especially come playoff time, is that they are an easy team to play. They are a fast skating, very fast passing team, and their style of play doesn't equate to a physical game. A fast forechecking, hard hitting team can wear on them, as the Oilers proved last year, and as Anaheim proved before that. What I think Detroit should have done is to get a little more physicality added to their lineup. Although they may get by the first, and even second rounds, they won't be without injury, and definitely will be feeling the effects in their legs. I look at the Wings being out in the second round. [/QUOTE]

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