The Red Wings acknowledged that they were shaken down by the Montreal Canadiens last night, losing 4-3 to the Habs.
Now that the Wings sit only a point ahead of Montreal in the Atlantic Division standings, MLive’s Ansar Khan notes that tonight’s rematch in Montreal (7 PM EST start on FanDuel Sportsnet Extra/NHL Network/Sportsnet East/City/TVA Sports/97.1 FM) is all but a must-win for Detroit:
“We got to be better with the puck,” coach Derek Lalonde said. “Just the margin of error is not there. We can’t have lapses in our game. We have to be good on special teams and obviously tonight we were not.”
The Red Wings went 0 for 4 on the power play, the last one coming with 3:53 to play. They also allowed a shorthanded goal to Jake Evans in the first.
“We had chances, but we didn’t keep enough out,” Dylan Larkin said. “And they get their power play in the third and they scored and we get ours and we don’t.”
Larkin is glad they face the Canadiens again tonight at the Bell Centre (7 p.m., FanDuel Sports Network).
“We just got to capitalize on our chances and play with a little more intensity, and minimize our mistakes,” Larkin said. “They get a little bit off the rush, but you look at the goals they score and there’s just some key breakdowns. A lot of it, we talk about not breaking the puck out well and coming back to the house and seeing and stopping and puck management. So, we clean those things up, put a little more intensity.”
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