The story seems to start the same way all too often for the Detroit Red Wings this season. A slow start leaves the team clawing from behind. The Wings would play in their league-leading eighth overtime contest of the season.
The Wings need to figure out this slow start stuff. You can’t survive in this league being heavily outshot every game. The Wings have often found a way to overcome the sluggish starts but to be outshot 12-4 in the first period and 30-15 midway through the third period and expect to continue to survive is just false hope.