DetroitRedWings.com’s Jonathan Mills sets up tonight’s match-up between the Red Wings and Sharks:
“I think we’re riding a lot of highs and there’s a lot of positivity in our game,” Joe Veleno said. “We just got to keep playing to our strengths, doing what we’re doing and riding this thing right now.”
The Red Wings are coming off a 6-2 victory over the Seattle Kraken on Sunday. Detroit jumped on Seattle early, taking a 4-0 lead before the eight-minute mark of the first period, and never looked back.
“During this stretch, I think we’ve been challenged in a lot of different ways,” Veleno said. “Obviously, being up with the lead and being down against. Last game, being up a lot of goals. I don’t think we’ve been in that situation much this year. There’s been a lot of different challenges that we’ve faced, good and bad. We’re doing a good job with receiving these challenges and responding well to them.”
The Red Wings also went 3-for-5 on the power play against the Kraken, the 11th time this season Detroit has scored multiple man-advantage goals and the eighth game in a row the club has lit the lamp with an extra skater. The Red Wings are now 14-for-28 (50 percent) on the power play under head coach Todd McLellan and, in all, enter Tuesday with the NHL’s second-highest power-play success rate (28.6 percent).
“We’ve gotten really good at retrieving pucks and attacking off of it,” said Lucas Raymond, who leads Detroit with 22 power-play points this season. “Obviously, our shot mentality and just making plays when they’re there. I think that’s a big part. You have to read, react and find the plays.”
