Red Wings’ Sandin-Pellikka Plan Looks Like a Real Test

Detroit has a decision to make with Sandin-Pellikka, and these are the kinds of calls that tell you how much a team trusts its own development pipeline. The Red Wings can talk all they want about patience, but prospects do not develop on a perfect little timeline. The real question is whether they are protecting the player or protecting themselves from a mistake, because those are not always the same thing.