DETROIT \u2014 Coach Todd McLellan viewed his two days of practice this week as helping his Detroit Red Wings cram to make sure they passed the test the Anaheim Ducks would provide.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou take the lesson, take the lesson, then you take the test,\u201d McLellan said about the two pointed practices.\u00a0 Those study seassions stressed the Red Wings must push to the net with greater frequency, take away the goalies\u2019 eyes and scoredirty goals<\/p>\n
The Detroit squad retained those lessons well enough to pin a 6-3 loss on a Ducks team that had scored four or more goals in 10 of their first 16 games.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs you all know, Todd\u2019s very demanding and very detailed,\u201d said Moritz Seider who scored a goal that leaked through traffic in front of the net. \u201cMaybe it was exactly what we needed to get back on track. And yeah, it\u2019s a good, good first step in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n
The win halted a three-game losing streak, during which the Red Wings only scored two goals.<\/p>\n
Against the Ducks, Detroit\u2019s struggling power play scored twice. Also, fourth liner Michael Rasmussen<\/a> scored his first goal in 11 games. Jonatan Berggren, another fourth liner, had two assists. Alex DeBrincat<\/a> scored on a double-redirection shot.<\/p>\n \u201cWe scored some goals, just simple, hard, playoff type goals really,\u201d McLellan said. \u201cWhen you think about hard, hard goals that feeder shots that go to the net and you got a battle and then the other way with some of their feeder shots, we were sacrificing in front of our net.\u201d<\/p>\n Rasmussen\u2019s Sweet Shot<\/p>\n Rasmussen\u2019s goal was a thing of beauty \u2014 a snap shot buried high into the net as if it was fired by an elite scorer. Not what we\u2019ve seen from Rasmussen this season.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought Ras played his best game of the season today for a lot of different reasons,\u201d McLellan said. \u201cOne, the goal. But he looked confident. He looked looked, big, strong, held onto pucks, was physical. For him, that\u2019s a real confidence booster. We\u2019re happy for him. We are glad that he did that and we need that going forward night after night because he can play that way. He\u2019s a pretty effective player when he does.\u201d<\/p>\n McLellan has played the role of a stern taskmaster this week. He made it clear that this team can\u2019t be successful if doesn\u2019t score in a variety of ways.<\/p>\n \u201cYou better score in a multitude of ways, or have the ability to score in multiple ways,\u201d McLellan said. \u201cCycle, power play, shootouts, overtime, five-on-five, tips, deflections, screens. If you\u2019re just a rush two-on-one team, you\u2019re going to have some long nights.\u201d<\/p>\n That\u2019s the real lesson that McLellan was teaching this week. You can\u2019t learn the lesson for one test. The Red Wings need to retain what they\u2019ve learned this week. That\u2019s the only path to the playoffs: consistent hard-nosed hockey.<\/p>\n \u201cWe can\u2019t just take the lesson one day and forget about it next week,\u201d McLellan said. \u201cThat lesson is supposed to stay with us now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT \u2014 Coach Todd McLellan viewed his two days of practice this week as helping his Detroit Red…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[23917,163,824,165,164,93,23587],"class_list":{"0":"post-52977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-alex-debrincat","9":"tag-anaheim","10":"tag-anaheim-ducks","11":"tag-anaheim-headlines","12":"tag-anaheim-news","13":"tag-featured","14":"tag-red-wings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}