from Dana Wakiji of the Wings' website,

Just as young players need some time to develop, so do young coaches.

Detroit Red Wings vice president and general manager Ken Holland said as much when he announced that Jeff Blashill would return as the team's head coach next season.

"I think in Jeff's case, he's got three years of experience," Holland said. "Some of those ideas that he might have had when he became an NHL head coach, with the success that he had in the American Hockey League, the success he had in college, the success that he had in junior hockey, this is a totally different set of circumstances. The team played hard right to the end. We've been out of it for … unless we went on a massive, won seven or eight or nine in a row, we really just sort of stayed behind and then we lost nine in a row in March and the bottom fell out. But I thought even when we lost nine in a row, we lost a lot of games by a goal, we played hard.

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