Red Wings Leave Sweden 0-2

Someone needs to tell the Red Wings that summer is over and that they aren’t playing drop-in hockey, because that’s what both Swedish games looked like.

Like Friday, the Wings came out and dominated the first period, but were nowhere to be seen afterwards.

That’s because St. Louis simply just outworked the Wings, who seemed content to give the Blues the space they needed to stickhandle with the puck and set up plays in the Wings’ zone. St. Louis, rather than let Detroit free wheel the puck, played the body and shut the Wings down inside the Blues’ Zone.

If you can’t set up plays, you won’t score many goals. The wings need to learn how to take the body, both offensively and defensively, or losing will become a theme for the season.