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Abdelkader approaching Red Wings' coming season with urgency

(Photo: David Guralnick, Detroit News)

East Lansing — Spend a few minutes with Justin Abdelkader and you sense he is approaching this season with urgency.

It’s understandable, given the way the NHL is these days.

Abdelkader is 32 and entering his 11th season, which in today’s NHL can be dinosaur territory.

Abdelkader is also coming off a season in which he scored a career-low six goals, and equaled a career-low with 19 points.

There is an urgency to rebound, to show he is still an effective NHL player.

“It was frustrating, just frustrating for sure,” Abdelkader said Tuesday after completing the second day of the Spartan Pro Camp at Munn Ice Arena.