DALLAS – Jonathan Ericsson was so pumped for his first outdoor game.
It’s just that everything surrounding last Saturday’s Stadium Series outdoor game at Coors Field was beyond normal for the Red Wings’ defenseman, who was returning from a lower-body injury that kept him out of the previous six games.
“It was a really cool experience,” Ericsson said, “although the preparation for me wasn’t great with everything in play with the altitude, the outdoor game, I hadn’t played in two weeks, and we hadn’t skated in three days before that.”
The last good practice the Wings had was last Wednesday.