As they turn their attention to their next game, the Detroit Red Wings have a clear memory of what works.
They improved to 5-3-2 on the strength of a furious effort over the final few minutes of Thursday's 3-1 victory against the Washington Capitals, when Andrew Copp scored, Ville Husso and the penalty killers nixed a six-on-four advantage, and Dylan Larkin found an empty net with 28 seconds on the clock.
"Those are huge momentum situations," coach Derek Lalonde said. "Our goal is to put ourselves in those type of situations more and more.