I have the Red Wings’ schedule as my wallpaper, and you’ll see that Detroit’s schedule over the next two-and-a-half weeks is absolutely nuts:
The Red Wings play 4 games over the course of the next 6 days, and proceed to play a total of 11 games over the course of 19 nights–and of those 11 games, 8 take place in different cities.
By any stretch of the imagination, that’s an intense schedule until almost American Thanksgiving, and the Detroit News’s Ted Kulfan asked Wings coach Jeff Blashill how he’s going to manage the workload over the next two-and-a-half weeks:
The Wings embark Tuesday on a stretch of seven games over 12 days. They’ll play 11 games (seven on the road) in 19 days.
The challenge will be to stay fresh.
“We’ll have to work to balance it, work with our sports science people in terms of where our guys are at from a body standpoint and get enough practice time but where our guys maximize energy in games,” Blashill said. “We may have to look at flipping some guys in out (of the lineup) just to make sure guys stay fresh and are at the top of their game.”
