Red Wings’ aggressive mindset in overtime paying off

DETROIT – The Detroit Red Wings person earned 5 other points successful overtime this season. That’s nan quality betwixt starring nan Atlantic Division and being retired of a playoff position.

The Red Wings discovered nan worth of each constituent 2 years agone erstwhile they were edged retired of nan last chaotic paper spot owed to a tie-breaker. The Eastern Conference is moreover tighter this year. Mini-winning streaks and little slumps person led to drastic changes successful nan standings.

Those other points are truthful valuable, and nan Red Wings person earned their stock pinch a 5-1 grounds successful overtime and 2-2 people successful shootouts. Only San Jose (7-2) and Montreal (6-2) person won much OT games.

Detroit’s past 3 wins person travel successful overtime astatine home.

“I deliberation erstwhile we get to those situations, we judge we tin win,” coach Todd McLellan said. “We’re not conscionable going retired location to play safe. We’re going retired location to triumph nan faceoff and attack. And if it doesn’t activity for us, we person to take sides arsenic good arsenic we tin and past manus it off. And I deliberation we person astir six aliases 7 forwards that we tin regularly usage and count connected them. They play together agelong enough, they complement accomplishment sets, whether it’s velocity aliases puck power aliases a shot. And past nan backmost extremity is getting much adept astatine being portion of that arsenic well.”

The Red Wings (23-14-3, 49 points) big nan Winnipeg Jets (15-18-4, 34 points) coming (6:30, FanDuel Sports Network).

With players for illustration Patrick Kane (14 profession overtime goals), Alex DeBrincat (12), Dylan Larkin (11) and Lucas Raymond up beforehand and Moritz Seider and Simon Edvinsson connected nan backmost end, nan Red Wings judge they lucifer up favorably pinch immoderate squad successful OT.

“When this three-on-three came successful (in 2015-16), cipher really knew what was going to happen,” McLellan said. “I cognize there’s a batch of talk astir bringing pucks backmost retired (of nan violative zone) now, but there’s truthful overmuch much to it that nan faceoffs and nan building of faceoffs, nan expertise to win, moving picks, almost for illustration basketball, pick-and-roll and worldly for illustration that. We ne'er discussed that erstwhile we first started, but nan group’s been astir agelong enough. Those 3 (Larkin, Raymond, Seider) thin to play together. They understand what they want to get done and it works. And past it benignant of sets nan reside for nan adjacent brace that goes out.”

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