DETROIT — It is almost impossible to assess the Detroit Red Wings’ offseason moves when their biggest, defining piece of business still hangs in the balance. Let’s get that out of the way to start.As long as Dylan Larkin’s trade request remains unresolved, we’re all looking at an incomplete picture. There’s also a big question mark around Patrick Kane, Detroit’s future Hall-of-Fame winger who, as of Wednesday night, remained unsigned for next season.The Red Wings still accomplished some business on Wednesday, addressing their two perceived biggest needs entering the summer. They needed to find more five-on-five scoring, so they signed Viktor Arvidsson, whose 18 five-on-five goals last season were more than any Red Wing managed in 2025-26. They needed to get tougher in the bottom six, so they traded for Vegas Golden Knights forward Keegan Kolesar, whose 270 hits ranked seventh in the NHL.That’s all well and good, and those players will help the Red Wings next season — even if Arvidsson’s absurd 3.06 points per 60 at five-on-five (third most in the league last season) is an outlier relative to the rest of his career, and unlikely to repeat in Detroit.The small-statured Arvidsson is quick and can really shoot it. His 25 goals last season were his sixth NHL season with 20-plus goals, and his fifth with at least 25. That should earn him a spot in Detroit’s top six. Meanwhile, Kolesar brings physicality and forechecking to a bottom six that struggled in both departments last season. They also added a decent backup goaltender in Daniil Tarasov, formerly of the Florida Panthers.But with the bulk of the top free agents now off the board, and other movement around the league bringing competing rosters into view, perhaps the simplest way to evaluate the Red Wings right now begins with a question: As things stand today, how do the Red Wings stack up in the Atlantic Division?With Larkin and Kane in tow, that answer likely would have been somewhere in a jumble of teams — including Toronto, Boston, Ottawa — jostling for the fifth spot in the division, and a puncher’s chance at a wild card. Without either? They could very well be headed for last in the Atlantic.