“We picked that as a theme, and we tried to pound it into them, but everything is connected,” McLellan said regarding Detroit’s mental fortitude. “The game management part, you think of some of the ways – tonight, we had two goals, pinch and cover. Teams are going to make mistakes; they’re going to give one of those up, but not two, and especially not with four minutes left in a game where we need the points.”Â
