Red Wings Defensive Considerations: Wherein I Say Something
Wildly Unpopular  TRAVERSE CITY MI - SEPTEMBER 11: Brendan Smith
#2 of the Detroit Red Wings turns up ice during NHL Prospects
Tournament on Saturday September 11 2010 at Centre Ice Arena in
Traverse City Michigan. (Photo by Dave Reginek/Getty Images)
Let's get this out of the way early so you can already think of
the nasty things you want to say in the comments while I try to
explain myself:  Jonathan Ericsson is right now a better
defenseman than Brendan Smith.  There, I said it.  I said it and
I'm not taking it back. It's something that the boys over at The
Production Line got me thinking about in their recap of last
night's game. There's a lot of great discussion in the comments
over there right now about what the Wings will do when Ian White
comes back from his injury and where everybody below Brad Stuart
on the depth chart stands right now. I'll let Michael Petrella's
words sum up the conundrum for you:  The first game was a bit
testy, the sec