Wings-Stars pre-game comments

Coaches Mike Babcock and Dave Tippett share their pre-game thoughts.

Red Wings Coach Mike Babcock:

Q. Is Valtteri Filppula going to play tonight?


COACH MIKE BABCOCK: Yes.

Q. Mike, any creative stuff you did to kind of deal with the lay-off?


COACH MIKE BABCOCK: No, you and I have been through it before. The last time we had a lay-off I did a brutal job, had two games, didn’t touch the puck. When I was in Anaheim there I think we had nine or 10 days, didn’t we ?? 11 days. We were no good for two games. Took us two games to get our game back. I don’t think we’ve had that kind of break at all. more...