It's time for everybody's favorite game: What if? The Red Wings in 2012 were fresh off a first-round defeat at the hands of Nashville, and "The Perfect Human" Nicklas Lidstrom hung up the skates for good. Perfect timing, one might say, to go out and make a splash free-agent signing that could lead Detroit into the next era of greatness — except Ken Holland failed to do just that, as Ryan Suter and Zach Parise signed with Minnesota. In hindsight, did the Wings dodge a bullet? What could the Wings have amounted while Datsyuk and Zetterberg were still around? We cover it all on today's episode of Locked On Red Wings!

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