It's something an old boss of mine commonly referred to as a "high-quality problem."
A situation that may be stressful, unexpectedly demanding or difficult to deal with—but in a good way.
Detroit's hockey team has a high-quality problem early on this season in that they have more able-bodied forwards than they have space for them to play.
Contrast that with last year's dismal start and constant parade of players to the long-term injured reserve list, and one can see that clearly, this is a problem Detroit is just fine with.
At the beginning of the season, Detroit's top two lines quickly established themselves as the fast, aggressive, high-scoring trios they were supposed to be.
All the way at the bottom, Detroit's fourth line, consisting of Patrick Eaves, Darren Helm and Drew Miller also lived up to their billing as a defensive, fore-checking, penalty-killing three-headed monster.
All was right at the top, and there was nothing wrong at the bottom, however, Detroit's problem was in the middle.
The well-documented struggles of Detroit's third line, centered by Mike Modano, became the only glari ...
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