Dylan Larkin, Elmer Soderblom, Todd McLellan Post Game Comments @ EDM | Dec. 11, 2025

Tylen, unfortunately, both the point and winning streak come to an end tonight. How do you assess tonight’s game? Yeah, I mean, I thought uh it was maybe one of our uh better games of the trip and and um ozone time generating chances. Uh we just uh they capitalize on their chances. We didn’t and they started with a a power play goal to get their offense going and that was something we tried to to avoid and and weren’t able to avoid tonight. You guys had a couple power plays yourself tonight. What did you see on those looks and did you guys think you still got some chances off? Yeah, I think we got some chances. I mean, if Ray’s first chance there bounces a little bit through his arm, um goes off his skate, you know, however it comes down, it it comes down and lays flat right behind him and um it is what it is and and uh we generated enough. We did a good job on the entries and and uh supported each other and got the got some good looks. Seems like whenever you guys play this team, we always ask about the star players. What are some of the keys when you’re going against some of those top star guys? Well, just being above them and and we talked about it a lot uh before the game and I mean you want to be above them, but those are special players. Conor willed his team to a win tonight and and uh you know it uh that’s going to happen on a back to back coming into this building. If you’re not on your toes and you’re not ready, you’re not you don’t know where he is on the ice. Um he’s going to make you pay and and and he made us pay tonight. But last night, Larkin talked about how there were some aspects to your game you guys can be proud of. What did you see in terms of the way you guys played overall tonight? Um, felt like we started off hot, had a good chances in the beginning. I mean, if you score on some of those, it’s a different game. Uh, so felt we were solid start off the game and uh I know take some penalties, stay very good team, too. So, uh, yeah, it was tough tough loss. You’re part of Simon’s goals contributing in one of the assists. Can you walk me through that play and kind of how the momentum maybe changed at that point in the game? Uh yeah, I just got a pass from Casper in in the mid zone. Just was trying to get it out to Danny and um yeah, then he finds Simon for a goal. So that was nice. The first regulation loss on this road trip and you guys have played well um through this trip. What have you liked most about the way this team has played throughout the the swing here? Uh just feels like we’re we’ve been in every game. You know, we’ve been uh fighting about points every single game. So, I think that’s uh that’s a good uh upside to our to our team that we can uh be in every game. Even if we not play our best, we can still be in the games and uh and fighting for points. Thanks, Elmo. Todd, you often talked about the race to three. Um how did you see tonight’s game play out? Um you know, I I thought we came to play. Um I actually think this is going to sound strange. I think this is one of our better played games on the trip. um we didn’t scramble around quite as much. Um yet when you look at it from an offensive perspective, probably not enough in and around the net, the net intensity, but we missed the net and had so many block that um you know there’s no there wasn’t a lot of reward for going to the net. Um so that was disappointing. Um I thought we checked fairly well. Uh made a couple critical mistakes. We backed into our goalender on the on the second one and the third one. We’ve got two Dmen that uh did a pretty pretty good job tonight, but they both left netfront alone and was in. So, you can’t give that team those type of free opportunities. But, um um yeah, I know you and this group don’t like to make excuses, especially coming off maybe rest of a backto-back. When teams are finding their game throughout the second half of a backto-back, what are some of the important things that a group’s got to do to get going? Well, I actually thought we had our legs tonight. We skated better than we did in Calgary. Probably better than we did in Vancouver. Um, back toback can do that sometimes. It’s not always a negative. Um, sometimes it can be a positive. So, we we did skate better. Um, you know, and then you want to control pucks, win faceoffs, keep your shift short. Uh, all the typical things that coaches talk about. Simon finds it back to the net tonight. Just the opportunity for him to keep drive the net like that and some of the areas that you stress on for the defense to get up in the offense. Well, he did a he did a good job. Um I’m not sure if he broke up the play, but somebody broke up a play and uh came up ice. He saw open ice and um you know, arrived on time. We talk a lot about that and bear down and put in the net. So um it was good for him to get that. Um you know, we we talked about secondary scoring and you can get it from defenseman as well. How would you evaluate the special teams? and obviously power play chances there. One to kind of climb back in it, but unfortunately coming short on Well, we lost the the special teams game one nothing. So, um you know, coming in against this this Edmonton team, you don’t want to put them on the power play a lot. First time we did, they scored. Um you know, and then we had I don’t know what we had two or three, but it wasn’t uh you know, we weren’t dangerous enough. We had a couple chances, but um you know, in backto-back games that could be another factor where you you got to capitalize on your power plays, and we didn’t tonight. Have you liked the way this group has found ways to win and can play games on this road trip? Obviously, one more left in Chicago to finish it off. Um, yes and no. Um, the wins are great and the points are great putting them in the bank. Obviously, we didn’t get them tonight. Uh, but sometimes that can be a little uh uh, you know, fool you a little bit. Um, but at the end of the year, it doesn’t really matter how you got them. You got them. And uh, we still have to work on our game.

Dylan Larkin, Elmer Soderblom, and Todd McLellan speak with the media following Detroit’s game against the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday December 11, 2025.

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  3. This team has got to learn how to make more fluid, guaranteed exits from the defensive zone. So many of their issues are coming from having no other plan than throwing the puck around the boards and hoping it's a Red Wing player standing there waiting for it. No one looks for an open guy in the middle of the ice ready to skate the puck out.

  6. Kane on-ice xGF-xGA at 5v5

    overall: 1.01 – 0.83

    w Hamonic: 0.09 – 0.72

    wo Hamonic: 0.92 – 0.11

    The worst part is the time with Hamonic was only 3 minutes or so out of 13+ minutes for Kane and that line. That's how much damage Hamonic can do in a short time. The first goal was a penalty taken bc Hamonic got them immediately hemmed in. The 2nd goal was bc Hamonic was stuck on the ice like 3 minutes, the middle of which was with the 2nd line. His awfulness did not allow him to clear the zone at any point.

    That is an unplayable player.

  8. Why is Moritz Seider running the power play at the point and not Kane? How is that a good idea? That's like playing Kane as the top pair d-man 30 minutes a night. You have a guy who is world class at the thing but instead you have this guy who can't do it at all doing it and refusing to pass to the guy who is world class at the thing. Just passes to Raymond over and over and ignores Kane. Or shoots and ignores Kane. Gee I wonder why the power play is gone. Hard to solve this mystery.

    McLellan has explicitly said multiple times this year, as has Tanguay, that when the power play is working it is running through Kane. Seider is not allowing it to run through Kane. He is playing keepaway from Kane, as are a couple others. So do something different or the unit will stay broken.

    The 2nd line looks about 2000x more like a power play at 5v5 than the power play does during the power play.

  9. I’m not sure if I am right about this perception of my Red Wings. I am afraid they allow themselves to “ sit back on their laurels” with a false feeling that they have already won. They need to learn how to play a game of desperation for the whole 60 minutes. Never take your foot off the gas!

  11. Box out the guy in front of our net. Thats been a big problem for the whole season now. This game would have looked very diffrent, if that would have been done

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