Pittsburgh — There are only 16 games left for the Red Wings this season.
Only 16 more, and this recent stretch of ugly, dispiriting hockey is going to be done.
For most of Sunday, fans must have hoped those 16 games would speed by in fast-forward.
The Wings were outclassed, broken and beaten by the Pittsburgh Penguins, 11-2, in another of the line of stinker performances that have been put out there by the Wings this last quarter of the season.
It was enough of a bad effort all the way around that it was fair to question whether the message was getting through from coach Jeff Blashill and his staff to the players.