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Enjoy It While It Lasts?
Published 9/5/2008 at Kuklas Korner
... Ken Holland told the Windsor Star’s Dave Waddell that this is the strongest Wing team since ‘97, but that next summer could bring some difficult times. ...

As Holland worries about keeping the Wings together, Lidstrom says his team's ready to be the NHL's 'measuring stick'
Published 9/5/2008 by George James Malik at Red Wings Snapshots - MLive.com
Red Wings GM Ken Holland told the Windsor Star's Dave Waddell that he believes his team is more than ready to defend its Stanley Cup championship as its core players are coming into the primes of their respective careers: September 4, Windsor Star : "We're closer to '97 than '02," Holland said. "When you think of the '02 team we felt that team still had some hockey (left), but our core players were Steve (Yzerman), (Sergei) Fedorov, (Chris) Chelios, (Nick) Lidstrom and they were all in their mid-30s. "When we won the cup in '97, our best players were high 20s to low 30s. The age ...