{"id":607594,"date":"2026-04-16T08:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T08:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/607594\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T08:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T08:26:08","slug":"red-wings-mclellan-says-hes-embarrassed-after-blowout-loss-in-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/607594\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Wings&#8217; McLellan says he&#8217;s embarrassed after blowout loss in finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head coach of the <a class=\"sn-team-post-link\" data-team=\"detroit-red-wings\" data-league=\"nhl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/detroit-red-wings\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a> had some pointed words for his team after one final embarrassing loss against the Florida Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll tell you, both teams came in with nothing on the line, and you can see their championship pedigree,&#8221; Todd McLellan said. &#8220;So I&#8217;m going to compliment the Panthers, it runs throughout their organization, they came and they played and it meant something to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Red Wings lost 8-1 to the Panthers on Wednesday to put a cap on the club&#8217;s 10th consecutive season out of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Later, when asked how he could measure the team&#8217;s success \u2014 the Red Wings&#8217; 92 points is the most the team has had during the 10-year drought \u2014 McLellan simply replied &#8220;I&#8217;m not even going there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Red Wings led the Atlantic Division in January but went 8-11-4 after the Olympic break to fall out of playoff contention. Four of those regulation losses included blowin third-period leads, including one to these same Panthers on March 10, and another last Saturday to the New Jersey Devils, which mathematically eliminated Detroit from the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>McLellan was asked if the team should be embarrassed by the way the season ended.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we all should be,&#8221; he replied, before walking away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The head coach of the Detroit Red Wings had some pointed words for his team after one final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-607594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}