Stop looking backwards

This is a message to the Detroit Red Wings and their fans.
Stop looking backwards, this isn't last year. Doing so is well, backwards.
The Wings current losing streak is at five. Many fans seem to take solace that last year they lost six in a row at one point. "So don't worry about it," they say.
Yet this isn't last season. The time is now. Last season the Wings were in first. Now, they're nine points behind the League-leading Boston Bruins, eight behind Western Conference-leading San Jose Sharks, and catching up to the Wings are the New Jersey Devils who are just two points shy of the Wings pace.
One of the Detroit papers published an article at the break or half-way point that the Wings were at the same pace last year.
This isn't last year; this is this year!
Things aren't dire, and the Wings are missing players. Got it. Yet their defense is still lax, and that must change if they're to do well in the post-season.
This isn't last year, and the Wings shouldn't rest on their laurels.