The Hockey News’s Sam Stockton took note of comments made by Red Wings coach Todd McLellan and goaltender Alex Lyon after last night’s 4-1 loss to the Dallas Stars:
The Red Wings outshot their hosts 34–25 for the evening, but as McLellan pointed out, those shots on net failed to encapsulate the scope of Detroit’s defensive calamities.
“From my perspective or from our perspective [as a coaching staff], we looked at it from the defensive side and what we gave up, and some real egregious errors by individuals again, and the whole group pays the price for them,” McLellan said after the game. “I think the first goal is real preventable…We’re a good hockey club. We’re not a great one yet, and great ones can overcome that stuff.”
When asked about the challenge of preventing the frustration they’d just warded off at the start of the month to creep back in, goaltender Alex Lyon said, “It’s hard. On a road trip, you’re playing good teams every night, so you just can’t take anything for granted. You got another team that plays extremely hard here in two days, so we gotta hit reset quick.”
On the same subject, McLellan said simply, “We’re not gonna accept slippage.”
Continued; if you missed it in the wrap-up, here’s the post-game comment clip:
