from Drew Sharp of the Detroit Free Press,

One game certainly isn't cause for pressing the panic button. A certain amount of sloppiness and lack of cohesion was expected. But considering that all of the Wings' concerns this season revealed themselves within the first two periods of the first game suggests that general manager Ken Holland perhaps can't afford to be as patient as he initially thought.

Rust was expected, but was Saturday's season-opening 6-0 loss to St. Louis the first hint of erosion?

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