Fortunately for Detroit, Saturday night produced some favorable results on the out-of-town scoreboard, as the Ottawa Senators, Columbus Blue Jackets and New York Islanders also all suffered regulation losses while the Philadelphia Flyers were idle. As a result, the Red Wings still find themselves in a four-way tie in points with those previously listed clubs for the Eastern Conference\u2019s second Wild-Card spot.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we\u2019re sitting here, and every other team won [on Saturday night], the task is just tougher,\u201d McLellan said. \u201cBut, somebody has to step up. Doing the pre-scout for Minnesota and Ottawa\u2026their game looked a lot like ours did against the Rangers, where Ottawa didn\u2019t step up either. There\u2019s other teams around us. Time is running out on everybody. Somebody\u2019s going to get a spark and get hot over the next 10 days.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lucas Raymond, like his teammates, believes they can rise to the occasion during this likely season-defining four-game homestand.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got a great opportunity here,\u201d Raymond said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got these games left here to really do something special with this team. So, the faith is high in here. We have a lot of faith in ourselves and our team. It\u2019s just about going out there and getting it done.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Wild were also in action on Saturday afternoon, earning a 4-1 win against the Senators at Canadian Tire Centre. They clinched a 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs berth on Friday and are currently in third place in the Western Conference\u2019s top-heavy Central Division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fortunately for Detroit, Saturday night produced some favorable results on the out-of-town scoreboard, as the Ottawa Senators, Columbus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5101],"tags":[599,93,5137,5,4,3358,5138],"class_list":{"0":"post-542919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-red-wings","8":"tag-detroit","9":"tag-detroit-red-wings","10":"tag-detroitredwings","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-red-wings","14":"tag-redwings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116354809075871515","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542919","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=542919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}