The message on the ice was to get to the hard areas; the message off the ice was to stop feeling sorry for themselves.
The Detroit Red Wings enter their next game, Wednesday at Little Caesars Arena against the Chicago Blackhawks, having to look back nearly two weeks to the last time a game ended with a victory. In that span the Wings lost Michael Rasmussen to a season-ending injury after he took a puck off his right kneecap, and lost Tyler Bertuzzi, Filip Hronek, Oskar Sundqvist and Jakub Vrana to trades.