The Detroit Red Wings showed no heart in 8-1 loss to Montreal. Filmed Feb. 26, 2019 in Detroit. Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press
Not all rebuilds are created equally. Fans are patient – relatively speaking, anyway – if there is consistent effort. If a team looks like it’s competing.
But when you get what Hockeytown got Wednesday night, when the Detroit Red Wings laid down to the Montreal Canadiens, 8-1?
Well, that isn’t just embarrassing … it’s disheartening.
“There’s no explanation,” Wings’ forward, Dylan Larkin said. “... we’ve been saying it for too long, too many times coming in here, in front of you guys, in front of our fans.