{"id":556607,"date":"2026-04-20T09:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/556607\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T09:55:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:55:32","slug":"red-wings-must-find-different-ways-to-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/556607\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Wings Must Find Different Ways to Score"},"content":{"rendered":"

The post Red Wings Must Find Different Ways to Score<\/a> appeared first on Detroit Hockey Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s almost become as familiar a discussion about the Detroit<\/a> Red Wings as their inability to make the playoffs is the club\u2019s inability to score 5-on-5 goals. The Red Wings finished 30th in the NHL this season in 5-on-5 goals, but that\u2019s not anything new.<\/p>\n

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The discussion always comes around to the same talking points. Going back to the days when Jeff Blashill was coaching the team, we would always hear about how this team needed to get traffic to the net and play the game with more of a shot mentality.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re still having those conversations, and the Red Wings still aren\u2019t getting the required consistency in offense when playing the game at even strength.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do think 5-on-5 scoring is a big area of emphasis for our team,\u201d Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin<\/a> said.<\/p>\n

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Clearly, this club must work to find different ways to score goals if they want to move forward and become a team that makes the playoffs.<\/p>\n

\u201cOffense is hard to come by in this league,\u201d Larkin said. \u201cTo score in this league, you\u2019ve got to go to the net. You\u2019ve got to be hard and get pucks through.\u201d<\/p>\n

When push came to shove, as the games got tougher down the stretch, the Wings didn\u2019t display the necessary fight to get the so-called dirty goals.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think for us as a team, we need to be an aggressive team,\u201d Detroit forward Lucas Raymond<\/a> said. \u201cWe need to be on top of players on other teams for us to be successful.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen we\u2019re shooting the puck, and we\u2019re getting 30, 40 shots, I think that creates a lot of momentum within our game. Not just scoring-wise, but just playing O-zone and creating off of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s, that\u2019s a big part, and one part that you gotta be reminded of.\u201d<\/p>\n

Red Wings Cite Penguins As A Model Franchise For Gritty Goal Scoring<\/p>\n

Detroit defenseman Simon Edvinsson<\/a> would like to see the Red Wings play a style of hockey more like the Florida Panthers or Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPittsburgh, you see, and you feel it out there on the ice,\u201d Edvinsson said. \u201cThey\u2019re very hard to play against. They crash the net all the time. They hit even after you pass the puck. That\u2019s a championship mentality.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like they get a piece of you every time, bring you down slowly. And that\u2019s something in our team that we could use more. That\u2019s where all the goals come.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like it\u2019s not going to be pretty. It\u2019s going to be those gritty goals where you send the puck to the net and so on. Yeah, basically crash the net and crash into the goal in the paint, and that\u2019s where the goals are made. And I feel like we can have more of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sure, that sounds good. The Red Wings always talk a good game when it comes to getting garbage-type goals.<\/p>\n

Too often in the past, all that talk has amounted to little more than a pile of rubbish.<\/p>\n

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