{"id":683157,"date":"2026-10-10T05:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T05:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/683157\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T05:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T05:42:15","slug":"familiar-feeling-to-latest-red-wings-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/683157\/","title":{"rendered":"Familiar Feeling to Latest Red Wings Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even though they came into the night with a losing 1-2 record, there wasn\u2019t necessarily a sense of doom and gloom surrounding the Detroit<\/a> Red Wings.<\/p>\n

Considering all the offseason shenanigans involving this club, that was really saying something positive about them.<\/p>\n

Red Wings lines tonight: projected lineup and starting goalie \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n

For the most part, they\u2019d played decent hockey. Five-on-five, a bugaboo for the Wings last season, wasn\u2019t bugging them at all.<\/p>\n

And then, just like that, the Seattle Kraken<\/a> cracked the whip. They lowered the boom. <\/p>\n

It only took a span of three minutes and five seconds to have everyone saying, or at least thinking, here we go again.<\/p>\n

Same old Red Wings.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like we\u2019ve played well up until that point and one bad period cost us the game,\u201d Red Wings forward Alex DeBrincat<\/a> said.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve all seen this film before. The Red Wings give up a goal. That gets the snowball rolling downhill. Momentum takes over.<\/p>\n

Suddenly, mistakes multiply like rabbits. Detroit\u2019s defensive zone coverage resembles archival footage of the Keystone Cops. <\/p>\n

One goal against becomes two, and then three. Hopes of victory are dashed in the span of a few moments. Defeat becomes their frequent companion.<\/p>\n

What Can Red Wings Do Differently? <\/p>\n

The question we again find ourselves asking, just four games into a new season, is what can this team do to head off such a malady before it grows from a flesh wound into a fatal infection?<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess the coach could call a timeout earlier, first of all,\u201d Detroit coach Todd McLellan<\/a> said. \u201cBut you\u2019re only given 84 timeouts during the year.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou want the players to grab it and settle things down. There\u2019s lots of game left. We went from being in control to being out of control.\u201d<\/p>\n

Detroit played a solid first period. The Wings outshot the Kraken 18-5, but came out of the frame deadlocked at 1-1.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really liked our start,\u201d McLellan said. \u201cWe probably didn\u2019t get rewarded for the effort, and I thought it cost us in the second.\u201d<\/p>\n

Only 39 seconds after William Wallinder<\/a> made it 2-1 for the Red Wings, the Kraken scored. It was the first of those three goals in a span of 3:05 that turned the tide and left Detroit reeling.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got loose and impatient, and we didn\u2019t stick with it, and all of a sudden the puck\u2019s in our net,\u201d McLellan said. \u201cNow we\u2019re chasing the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

By the time the Red Wings got back up off the mat, Seattle had scored again to make it 5-2.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, it\u2019s disappointing,\u201d McLellan said. \u201cWe put a lot of time and work into doing things right, and we give it back. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got to go back to the drawing board.\u201d<\/p>\n

Red Wings Have Done Enough To Win<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a double-edged sword feel to the start of this Red Wings season. Until Friday, for the most part, they\u2019ve played decent hockey. And yet, in the standings, they are 1-3.<\/p>\n

\u201cPut it this way,\u201d McLellan said. \u201cWe scored three tonight. That\u2019s enough to win. <\/p>\n

\u201cJust think about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

It certainly is an interesting \u2013 and perhaps even frightening \u2013 notion to ponder.<\/p>\n

Should it be considered a sign that better days are ahead for this team? Or is it merely an indication that we\u2019re discovering who the Red Wings really are, and this is going to be as good as it gets?<\/p>\n

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\t\tBob Duff has worked in the sports media industry since 1984 and covered the Red Wings since 1988. As … More about Bob Duff<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even though they came into the night with a losing 1-2 record, there wasn\u2019t necessarily a sense of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5101],"tags":[6017,599,1511,93,5137,5,4,3358,5138,1930],"class_list":["post-683157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-red-wings","tag-alex-debrincat","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-hockey-now","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-detroitredwings","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-red-wings","tag-redwings","tag-todd-mclellan"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117415021594033478","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683157","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=683157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}