Detroit Red Wings
Red Wings Get Immediate Chance For Redemption in Colorado
Avalanche play host to Red Wings on Monday
Fresh off a 5-0 home-ice drubbing at the hands of the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday, the opportunity for redemption is at hand for the Detroit Red Wings.
The Wings will be in Denver on Monday for a rematch with the NHL-leading Avalanche.
The question of the day seems to be, is that a good thing or a bad thing?
Saturday, in simple terms, the Avs had their way with the Red Wings.
If at first you don't succeed, try again. pic.twitter.com/xsAV2NWZ2P
— Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) January 31, 2026
“I feel like we never really got to our game,” Detroit center JT Compher said. “We played right into their game. They’re probably the best transition team in the league. You know, they probably get the most chances they score, and probably the most chances from what I’ve watched this year. And we fed right into it.
“We didn’t establish forecheck, which means we didn’t play enough offense, and they played enough offense.”
Will History Repeat Itself For Red Wings In Colorado?
As much as getting another crack at the Avs might seem like a motivating factor for the Red Wings, it won’t matter much if Detroit shows up with the same game on Monday.
The Wings too easily seemed to be resigned to their fate in Saturday’s setback.
“There was frustration, but we earned it, and we deserved it,” Detroit coach Todd McLellan said. “So that can change just through our play and our execution.
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— Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) January 31, 2026
“They’re a real good hockey club. They’re going to do some things to you that you’re not comfortable with. And they’re going to score some goals. But if you let frustration drag you down or even deeper, you’re going to end up with exactly what we got.”
Detroit has lost eight in a row at Colorado (0-7-1). The last win for the Red Wings at Ball Arena was in 2016.
Still, Detroit captain Dylan Larkin emphasized that it’s a stylized letter A that’s on the front of the Colorado jerseys. Not an S for Superman.
“The beauty of this is we get to play those guys again, and they’re a really good team,” Larkin said. “They’re the number one team in the league, but they’re not the best team ever.
“It’s not like we’re playing against guys that can’t be beat. So I think we have to go into their building with something to prove and have it be the start to a big two-game swing for us (before the Olympic break).”
I expect more of the same in Colorado.
I think however the Wings respond will tell us how the rest of the season will go. Are they going to come out flying and play with pride and passion or will they do a Claude Lemieux turtle?
Back to back losses to the same team that ruin the season , where have seen this before? Yzerman will sit on his hands AGAIN and as USUAL . No help is coming.
Going for year 8 for Steve and year 11 for Chris, while Buffalo gets in. Mike would be so disappointed in both of them
He certainly would not agree with doing margin work.
Wingers,
The Avs are arguably the best team in the NHL right now, they are playing at home and spanked us like a red headed step child.
They are going to make a meal out of us.
This issue has nothing to do with SY, TM or CI, it has everything to do with these guys heart, the team has real talent but they haven’t learned that talent alone is not enough.
Having to play this many games is a real grind and they have to get tough, they have to get mean and they have to fight for it literally.
This group has to many “Nancy’s” and not enough “Hercules” and I for one don’t know how any management goes about building that kind of fire in boys.
The Tkachuk brothers were given that fire by their dad, they didn’t get it from a coach or a GM. Brad Marchand is 5’9″ and 180lbs and he has a fire, he’d bare hand a locomotive if he had to. This is a very small guy and he’ll drop gloves with anyone, that’s the fire you got to have to win championships.
We Don’t!
PBB
Well, is it not the responsibility of the GM to get the “Hercules”? Thus, it is on the GM, no? And in terms of “Nancy’s”, why not sit some players and play or call-up others that will play a better style of hockey? Both are on the GM and Coach, no?
Lucky #13,
You have a point, you can sit players for others to get ice time but the problem is systemic.
It’s like telling a child “do as I say not as I do” that has and will never work. The great African explorer and physician Albert Schweitzer was asked by a biographer ” you have been quoted saying that the best way to lead men is by example” Schweitzer’s answer was ” it’s the only way!”
I’m not sure Lucky #13 how the GM and coach can accomplish that other than moving players out and bringing in different players. I was under the impression that the Yazer plan was build from within…
Now McLellan was able to challenge their manhood after the disastrous Canadians game and it had a positive affect for a while. I started to see that fire in Mo Sider but it waned, someone somehow needs to be challenged to step up and lead by example. Someone needs to boldly give these kids a visual example of kick ass…
Again, who is that man???
PBB
Oops, guess again.