from Ted Kulfan of the Detroit News,
On more than one occasion, coach Jeff Blashill has mentioned how the 2019-20 season was the most difficult of his professional career.
“As challenging a time as I ever had professionally, and I’m sure it was the same for our players,” Blashill said. “It’s fun to go into games with the expectation that you should win the hockey game. When you're down like we were two years ago, there were games you might be hoping to win the hockey game and now you feel you should win if you execute at a high level.