Detroit — The Red Wings aim to play tough.
They want opponents to understand they have a battle on their hands when they play the Wings, especially in Little Caesars Arena.
In training camp, Jeff Blashill started calling their approach to a game, “60 minutes of hell.”
He thinks the Red Wings are getting there.
“Way better now than we were at the beginning of the year,” he said after Sunday’s hard-hitting, pugnacious game against the Avalanche, which made it feel like that once-bitter rivalry had been renewed.
“I didn’t know what we were made of yet,” he said of his perceptions in Traverse City during training camp “Did we have players that would fit that?