Detroit Red Wings Reunited: Henrik Zetterberg and Pavel Datsyuk on One Line?

Henrik Zetterberg and Pavel Datsyuk on one line.

Any team in the NHL would love to have both players on their team, let alone on one line.

This past year, as we all know, Detroit suffered a ton of injuries that no one could've ever imagined. With the injuries that Detroit suffered, it wasn't the best move to have both players on the same line because the second scoring line wouldn't be as potent.

But even when they did play on one line, which was very limited, they didn't seem right.

In 2009-10, Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg both finished off the with 70 points a piece. That was a far cry from the 97 points Datsyuk finished with the previous year, and yes it was only three points less from Hank's 73 points his previous year (in which he only played 77 games).  But it was far from his 92 points he had in 75 games in Detroit's Stanley Cup year in 2008.

With Detroit heading into this year 100 percent healthy and having the longest summer it's had in a long time, should Zetterberg be reunited with Datsyuk on one line?

Yes they should.

The whole year last year was an off year for the Red Wings so it only makes sense that both Datsyuk and Zetterberg had off years, too.

A lot of people started to say that they are out of their prime and will start to fall off as time goes on.

16-3-2 later, everyone stopped talking and Detroit was, even with the sub-par, injury-plagued season, one of the favorites to come out of the West.

If Detroit starts the season with Datsyuk and Zetterberg on one line and they produce, they will become again one of the most feared lines in the NHL. 

Barring any injury to Johan Franzen and Valtteri Filppula, and if they post the numbers that Detroit brass expects, the Wings can have the best top two lines in the NHL and can gain the scoring touch they lacked last year.

If Zetterberg and Datsyuk struggle once again with each other, Detroit has the depth to line-juggle again.

There are many reasons to believe that Detroit can be a Cup contender again. They have the same team, Bertuzzi aside, that helped win them the Cup in 2008 (also without Drake and Maltby, but Abdelkader, Eaves and Miller have proved to be perfect for those roles).

Detroit on paper looks like the big red machine it once was, but you don't win games or score goals on paper. You do that on the ice.

And it all starts off with Detroit's two diamonds in the rough—Henrik Zetterberg and Pavel Datsyuk.

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