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The Wings are viewed as an old team, but they have an impressive core of young guns up front: Henrik Zetterberg, 23, Pavel Datsyuk, 25, Jiri Hudler. 20, and Jason Williams, 23. Hudler, in fact, may win the Calder Trophy....

Scoring against this D will be tough. With the addition of hard-nosed Derian Hatcher, plus a healthy Jiri Fischer and the return of G Dominik Hasek, expect Detroit to allow the fewest goals in the league....

Kris Draper and Kirk Maltby are the NHL's best pair of foot soldiers.