Yahoo Sports Red Wings Suffer "Egregious" Loss in Dallas
On Sunday evening in Dallas, the Red Wings were looking for a bounce-back after a humbling defeat the night prior in Tampa Bay. Instead, Detroit found itself staring down the barrel of a 3–0 deficit after the first period on the way to a 4–1 loss at the hands of the host Stars.
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The trouble started with an Alex DeBrincat giveaway deep in his own end, opening the door for Matej Blumel to grab the game's first goal out of a net-front scramble 5:26 into the evening's action. That opener set an unfortunate trend for Detroit's evening, with Dallas' best offense seeming to come always off of opportunities the Red Wings brought upon themselves. The Stars went up 2–0 on the power play eight minutes later after Detroit had multiple chances to clear the zone and failed to do so. Dallas made it 3–0 barely a minute later via a line rush with the Red Wings lackadaisical on the back check.
"The tough thing for me is the start wasn't that bad, except for some individual errors," coach Todd McLellan told reporters after the game. "Nobody's perfect," he would add. "Players are gonna make mistakes. We just can't make four of those a night."
Marco Kasper scored his fourth goal in his last six games to cut the Stars' lead to 3–1 12 minutes and one second into the third. However, Detroit's hopes of a comeback—however faint they may have been—were squashed quickly, after Wyatt Johnston answered Kasper's marker in just over two minutes time.
The Red Wings outshot their hosts 34–25 for the evening, but as McLellan pointed out, those shots on net failed to encapsulate the scope of Detroit's defensive calamities.
"From my perspective or from our perspective [as a coaching staff], we looked at it from the defensive side and what we gave up, and some real egregious errors by individuals again, and the whole group pays the price for them," McLellan said after the game. "I think the first goal is real preventable...We're a good hockey club. We're not a great one yet, and great ones can overcome that stuff."
When asked about the challenge of preventing the frustration they'd just warded off at the start of the month to creep back in, goaltender Alex Lyon said, "It's hard. On a road trip, you're playing good teams every night, so you just can't take anything for granted. You got another team that plays extremely hard here in two days, so we gotta hit reset quick."
On the same subject, McLellan said simply, "We're not gonna accept slippage."
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