Detroit — After the Red Wings' latest loss, 3-2, to the Flames Sunday, the media strained for different ways to ask the same question: How can the Wings, losers of four in a row and 2-8-1 since Oct. 27, improve?
Jeff Blashill strained for different ways to answer.
Finally, stopping himself after starting a response near the end of his postgame scrum with the media, Blashill spoke directly.
And it sounded like a bit of a warning.
“Well, I don’t think — listen,” he said, “we’d better pick ourselves up. And we’d better come to work tomorrow to get better.