{"id":440259,"date":"2026-02-01T18:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T18:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/440259\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T18:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T18:58:16","slug":"head-coach-todd-mclellan-calls-out-detroit-red-wings-after-winless-homestand-ends-in-5-0-shutout-loss-to-colorado-avalanche-nhl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/440259\/","title":{"rendered":"Head coach Todd McLellan calls out Detroit Red Wings after winless homestand ends in 5-0 shutout loss to Colorado Avalanche | NHL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/detroit-red-wings.jpg\" alt=\"Head coach Todd McLellan calls out Detroit Red Wings after winless homestand ends in 5-0 shutout loss to Colorado Avalanche\" title=\"Detroit Red Wings have a problem this season (Via Getty Images)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Detroit Red Wings have a problem this season (Via Getty Images) The Red Wings have a problem, and Todd McLellan made sure everyone in the room knew it Saturday afternoon. Detroit was blanked 5-0 by the Colorado Avalanche at Little Caesars Arena, completing a winless three-game homestand that has raised serious questions about the team&#8217;s direction heading into the Olympic break.<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/nathan-mackinnon\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan MacKinnon<\/a> scored twice to become the first player in the <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/nhl\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NHL<\/a> with 40 goals this season, and the Avalanche dominated from start to finish. The Red Wings have now been outscored 9-1 at even strength over their last three games and were shut out for the fourth time this season.<\/p>\n<p>Todd McLellan didn\u2019t hold back after Detroit Red Wings lost their third straight game<\/p>\n<p>McLellan wasted no time identifying what went wrong after the game, delivering a blunt assessment of his squad&#8217;s effort. &#8220;A lack of energy, a lack of drive, a lack of execution,&#8221; McLellan said. &#8220;You can&#8217;t have all of those things disappear at one point and expect to have success.\u201dThe Detroit head coach continued, \u201cI didn&#8217;t think we skated well at all. I didn&#8217;t think we passed real well at all, which affects your skating.&#8221; He went further, singling out the physical battles that define hockey at this level. Colorado simply outworked Detroit in every meaningful way throughout the game.&#8221;When it was time to do some of the harder or the heavier things, battles, 50-50s, loose stuff, and the four-foot races, they were much better than we were,&#8221; McLellan said. The lack of urgency was particularly telling. Where the Red Wings showed some fight in their first two homestand losses, Saturday&#8217;s game was out of reach so early that even a late push never materialized. McLellan offered several possible explanations for the slump, including stale line combinations, a lack of focus, complacency, or fatigue.McLellan made clear that the remaining games before the Olympic break carry enormous weight for this team&#8217;s playoff positioning. &#8220;We have six periods left, and these points could be the deciding points,&#8221; he said. He continued, &#8220;For whatever that decision is. I don&#8217;t know. But those could be the deciding points, and if we aren&#8217;t completely willing to dig in and get after them, then regret comes in many different ways and at many different times.&#8221;The Red Wings hold a 32-17-6 record but won&#8217;t play at Little Caesars Arena again until March 4 against the Vegas Golden Knights following the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit Red Wings have a problem this season (Via Getty Images) The Red Wings have a problem, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,192,144,5277,93,5,24128,517,4,30278,53844,42685,1930],"class_list":["post-440259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-colorado-avalanche","tag-avalanche","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-coloradoavalanche","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-hockey","tag-little-caesars-arena","tag-nathan-mackinnon","tag-nhl","tag-olympic-break","tag-playoff-positioning","tag-shutout-loss","tag-todd-mclellan"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115996912343493819","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}