Red Wings get back to 'basic principles' after ugly loss to Canadiens

Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill says team must play "right hockey" rest of the season. Ted Kulfan, The Detroit News

Red Wings goaltender Jimmy Howard has been pulled in his last three starts.Detroit — They didn’t expect a leisurely practice, and the Red Wings surely didn’t have one.

Coming off Tuesday’s 8-1 loss to Montreal, the Wings had a regularly scheduled day off the next day. Lucky for them.

But the luck ran out.

So Thursday, with the nightmare of the Montreal loss still fresh in their heads, the coaching staff wanted to make sure to get the point across that nothing about that game was acceptable.

With the amount of skating, physicality and just old-fashioned work involved in the practice,…