Coach Jeff Blashill says the Red Wings must continue to keep getting better at maintaining leads late in games. Ted Kulfan, The Detroit News
Detroit — It’s not like the Red Wings could have called on Mariano Rivera to help them out.
That would have been the ideal.
But the Wings’ difficulty in closing out games, and losing leads, was one of many reasons for the December (and early January) swoon that dropped them in the standings.