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Patience, not panic, is Detroit's mantra

By Scott Burnside
ESPN.com

Thursday, October 29, 2009

We happened to be talking to the general manager of a struggling NHL club this week, and he related a recent conversation he'd had with Detroit GM Ken Holland. One word kept coming up in the conversation with Holland, the GM recalled: patience. Patience, patience, patience. It's this methodology of patience before panic that has kept the Wings in good stead for most of the past decade and a half. And if history is any judge, patience likely will see them out to the other side of what has been ...

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