Sunday\u2019s 5-4 loss to the Minnesota Wild at Little Caesars Arena <\/a>capped a damaging weekend of back-to-back regulation defeats.<\/p>\n\u201cWe got to find a way to not let it weigh on us,\u201d Andrew Copp said. \u201cWe got to find a way to free ourselves up. As soon as you let the outside noise and you guys (media) start to impact what we\u2019re doing in here, that\u2019s when issues start to happen. Got to find a way to have fun with it, play free. \u2026 We got to try and channel that fun and that jam.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked if the \u201coutside noise\u201d has crept into the room, Copp said, \u201cIt feels a little heavy for sure. You guys (media) have jobs to do, fans have, you know, like, that it is what it is. That\u2019s on us, to not let it creep in. This day and age it\u2019s pretty hard.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Wild scored four unanswered goals in the second period to take a 4-1 lead. The Red Wings responded with three goals in the third before Karil Kaprizov scored a power-play goal with 1:51 remaining to cap a hat trick and snap a tie.<\/p>\n
\u201cOutside noise, if we\u2019re reading and buying into all of that, then shame on us,\u201d coach Todd McLellan said. \u201cMaybe that\u2019s part of our mental resilience. We can\u2019t worry about what goes on out there. We got to worry about what goes on in there. We had a little talk between the second and third, and that was made quite clear to them. And then we come out and respond. But the consistency, we\u2019re like a wave. We crest and then crash, crest and then crash. And it has to change.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Red Wings (40-29-8) have five games remaining and the next two \u2013 home vs. Columbus on Tuesday and Philadelphia on Thursday will go a long way toward determining their playoff fate.<\/p>\n
They began the day tied with Ottawa, Philadelphia and Columbus for the last wild card spot in the East with 88 points, one more than Washington.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not going to cry ourselves to sleep tonight and bail on the last five games,\u201d Copp said. \u201cIt\u2019s not the DNA in the room. It\u2019s not the DNA of our profession in general. So, it\u2019s going to suck tonight. After a back-to-back, we regroup and we\u2019re going to come with the most amount of intensity and jam that we can bring on Tuesday. We\u2019re not six feet under yet. We\u2019ve gotten a little bit of help lately. We play two of the teams that we\u2019re going against here in the next week, and those will determine it.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust trying to have that even keel mentality as much as possible, but when your confidence is wavering, it gets harder and harder to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
McLellan doesn\u2019t believe it\u2019s a crisis of confidence.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think we stop the bleeding when we start to bleed,\u201d McLellan said. \u201cIs that confidence? I don\u2019t know. I think that that\u2019s mental fortitude, the ability to dig in and respond when it\u2019s not going well. \u2026 We just have to stop the bleeding when it starts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT \u2013 The Detroit Red Wings\u2019 playoff hopes are fading, and their runway is getting shorter. They\u2019re desperately…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542985,"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-542984","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\/116355030265608512","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542984","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=542984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}