Todd McLellan<\/a> said.<\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019ve just got to keep playing and win and put ourselves in as good a spot as we can and get help,\u201d Larkin added.<\/p>\n
If that sounds like a lot of hope to be clinging to, that\u2019s because it is. <\/p>\n
We\u2019re supposed to believe that a team that\u2019s won back-to-back games just once over the past 28 games is suddenly going to reel off four wins in a row?<\/p>\n
Sorry folks. Ain\u2019t gonna happen.<\/p>\n
Red Wings Did This To Themselves<\/p>\n
The playoff chances of the Red Wings sit today at 6%, and that seems like an optimistic number.<\/p>\n
Perhaps the saddest part about this latest Hockeytown letdown is that it is entirely self-inflicted.<\/p>\n
The Red Wings simply couldn\u2019t get out of their own way.<\/p>\n
They were 17 seconds from a regulation win on Tuesday when Adam Fantilli tied the game for Columbus. Sunday, in a 5-4 loss to the Minnesota Wild, Detroit battled back to tie after entering the third period down 4-1. Then a foolish penalty by Patrick Kane led to Minnesota\u2019s game-winning power-play goal.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope (this loss is) not the one and I hope the Minnesota one is not the one that is the final nail in the coffin,\u201d Larkin said. \u201cAnd I hope we get some help and we have something to play for, to get in.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
That\u2019s an awful lot to hope for, Dylan.<\/p>\n
Especially considering that these are just the latest examples of the Red Wings\u2019 self-inflicted wounds.<\/p>\n
Remember when they were 1:30 away from a 3-2 victory in Florida and lost 4-3? How about when they squandered a 3-1 third-period lead to the Vegas Golden Knights and lost 4-3 in overtime?<\/p>\n
Two years ago, the Red Wings fought gallantly to the finish line, missing the playoffs on a heartbreaking tiebreaker. Last season, they rallied impressively from the depths of the standings following a mid-season coaching change, but ran out of steam down the stretch.<\/p>\n
This season\u2019s failure is no one\u2019s fault but their own. On Jan. 24, the Red Wings were first in the Atlantic Division, 12 points clear of the playoff cutoff. <\/p>\n
And they still aren\u2019t going to make the cut. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not a good feeling right now,\u201d Faulk said.<\/p>\n
Sadly, though, it\u2019s become an all-too-familiar feeling for this team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dylan Larkin\u2019s best friend pretty much assured that the Detroit Red Wings captain will be spending another spring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5101],"tags":[599,1511,93,5137,595,5,1821,4,3358,5138,1930],"class_list":{"0":"post-546700","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-hockey-now","10":"tag-detroit-red-wings","11":"tag-detroitredwings","12":"tag-dylan-larkin","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-justin-faulk","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-red-wings","17":"tag-redwings","18":"tag-todd-mclellan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116367092874312773","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546700","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=546700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}