Traverse City – Coach Jeff Blashill wants the Red Wings to be miserable – in a hockey sort of way.
What Blashill means is that he wants his team to be difficult to play against, establish a tough identity at Little Caesars Arena, and generally be a pain for opponents.
To that end, and as a daily reminder, he made up T-shirts players are wearing during workouts, with a “60 Minutes of Hell” slogan on the back.
“We have to be harder to play against on a nightly basis,” Blashill said. “We have to make sure we’re not a tweener team – kind of skilled but not winning the skill game and kind of hard but not really hard enough.