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Detroit Red Wings: Bounce-back performance ‘speaks volumes’ about team’s resilience
Detroit Red Wings say victory over Leafs speaks volumes
Detroit Red Wings Patrick Kane, Lucas Raymond & Todd McLellan, Oct. 11, 2025 in Detroit.
It was a performance the Detroit Red Wings can take with them down the road, can use for inspiration when needed.
Their second outing of the season was in such contrast to their first, even when they fell behind in the first period. They go into Toronto on Monday, Oct 13, to play the Maple Leafs for the second time in three days having just demonstrated how to be successful.
“I think it speaks volumes of the group with kind of just what we went through the past couple of days,” said Patrick Kane after contributing a goal and two assists in Saturday’s 6-3 victory.
The past couple days saw the Wings play embarrassingly poorly in their opener, get called out for it by their coach, and challenged to do better. So they did: Even when the Leafs went up 2-0, the Wings stuck with their game plan.
“To bounce back, you know, being down 2-0 and come out a second being up 3-2 is an ideal situation for us,” Kane said. “I know it’s two games into the season, but we prove we can, you know, turn the corner when we face that adversity.”
There was so much to like beyond the much-needed boost of confidence the Wings needed: Marco Kasper scoring midway through the second period, igniting the offense. A late penalty kill that segued into the Leafs pulling their goalie and the Wings facing six skaters the last couple minutes. The play of the rookies: Emmitt Finnie earning his first NHL point; Michael Brandsegg-Nygård holding onto the puck in high traffic, Axel Sandin Pellikka making plays with the puck. Lucas Raymond scoring twice to reach 100 career NHL goals.
And: Not exposing Cam Talbot to the odd-man rushes that chased John Gibson in the 5-1 loss to the Montreal Canadiens.
“We didn’t give up that bushel full of outnumbered rushes,” coach Todd McLellan said. “I think there was one real clear one, but the goaltender made the save. So that was a real good sign.
“I thought we were a lot more resilient. Obviously going down 2-0 and them scoring on the first shot on goal was not part of the plan. At that point we’d given up seven straight goals. So you talk about being mentally tough, we didn’t roll over. We dug in a little bit more, so that’s a real good sign for us. I just thought we played with more pop and more energy.”
Two games certainly don’t define a season, but for a team that’s come up just short in the playoff standings the last couple seasons, beating a divisional rival means something.
“We’ve been in situations a couple years in a row now where it’s come down to the end, where the margins are very thin,” Raymond said. “It’s about getting off to a good start putting ourselves in a good position and getting good habits. We’ve got all the tools in this locker room and around us to be a really good hockey team.”
A crucial moment came at 14:56 of the third period, when Jonatan Berggren was called for holding. Talbot helped out with two saves as the penalty killers came through with a huge stretch.
“You don’t want to put that team on the power play, especially when you’re 200 feet away from your net,” McLellan said. “It just makes no sense. So give the penalty killers and Talbs credit for getting us through that.
“And the extension of the penalty kill was the 6-on-5. They basically played the last four minutes, four of the last five minutes on the power play. I thought we did a real good job of holding our own there. Big task for us.”
It was a performance that can be replicated, and one that did just what was needed: Distance the Wings from their opening night dud.
“I believe they were all, you know, to a man, really disappointed in what transpired the other night,” McLellan said. “Now they got rewarded for fixing it and for doing the work. We’ve got to bottle that type of game up and continue on with it.”
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DETROIT – What started as a seemingly routine home repair quickly unraveled into something far more troubling for one Detroit family.
A man appeared to be posing as a contractor — arriving in construction gear and accompanied by two teens — showed up April 7 at a west side Detroit home, offering to do brick work for about $300. But according to the homeowner’s daughter, the situation started to seem fishy — and expensive — fast.
Tameka Kelly said the trio told her 76-year-old mother they were with “State Line Construction” and began working almost immediately.
“I just felt used and taken advantage of,” Kelly said, looking back at the situation.
“They kept working — kept putting cement down, I said, ‘you might want to tell them to stop.’ He said, ‘well right now it’s $1129.’ I said, ‘my mother‘s not paying you $1000,’” Kelly said.
At one point, the man even offered to repair the bottom of the home’s wheelchair ramp — something Kelly said her sister, who lives with her mother, relies on daily. But she refused because something just didn’t sit right.
“I gave him the $300,” Kelly said, hoping they would just leave. “I thought, well, he knows where my mom lives. I don’t want him coming back trying to do something to my mom‘s house or something to our vehicles.”
Kelly later tried to confront the man, who identified himself as Brian Lopez, and called the number on the invoice.
“When I called he was like, ‘no no no brickwork no brickwork’ I said, ‘yes you did. You were just here. I said I don’t forget a voice,’” she said.
But the biggest red flag came when she looked closer at the address listed on the invoice.
The address — 70 West Maple in Troy — turned out to be a McDonald’s.
“I really got upset when I found out that address was to a McDonald’s,” Kelly said.
Initially, Kelly said when she tried to file a report with Detroit police, she said they told her the situation was a civil matter and she could not file one. She then filed a complaint with the Michigan Attorney General’s Office.
Now, Detroit police tell Local 4 they will be taking Kelly’s fraud report, and once that is completed, an investigation will follow.
State Line initially told Local 4 they were not familiar with a Brian Lopez, then an attorney for State Line construction told Local 4 that, after checking the company’s records, there is no Brian Lopez that works for the company. As a matter of fact, the attorney said, State Line Construction does not do cement or residential construction. He said they focus on electrical work.
Attempts by Local 4 to reach the man going by the name Brian Lopez with the number given were unsuccessful.
Kelly said she felt compelled to speak up to prevent others from falling victim.
“I’m really upset about it, and I don’t want it to happen to anybody else,” she said.
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Pistons vs Magic Game 1 reaction, lessons learned and what must change
Omari Sankofa II, Shawn Windsor and special guest Bryce Simon react to Detroit Pistons’ Game 1 NBA playoff loss to Orlando Magic, April 19, 2026, at Little Caesars Arena.
How in the world did things get so bad so fast for the Detroit Pistons?
In just one outing in the 2026 NBA playoffs, they went from top-seeded darlings of the Eastern Conference to punching bags punked by an 8-seed short on rest but long on resilience and toughness.
“I would say they ‘outphysical-ed’ us today,” Pistons wing Ausar Thompson said after the Orlando Magic stole Game 1 of the first-round NBA playoff series, 112-101, at Little Caesars Arena on Sunday, April 19. “One, because they got more rebounds than us. They forced more turnovers.”
Yes, this was always going to be a physical series. Though you would think the Pistons, owners of the NBA’s second-best defense and playing at home, would have a sizable advantage.
It also should have helped them that they were coming off six days’ rest, as opposed to the Magic coming off winning a play-in game just 47 hours earlier.
It didn’t help that Pistons star Cade Cunnigham was playing in just his fourth game since suffering a collapsed lung and missing 11 games. He scored a game-high 39 points, but he didn’t operate as smoothly as usual, with just four assists (far off his 9.9-assist season average) while committing three turnovers.
Another indictment of the Pistons’ worrisome play: Tobias Harris (19 points) was Cunningham’s only teammate who scored in double digits. Meanwhile, all five Magic staters did so, led by Paolo Banchero’s 23 points on 8-for-15 shooting.
And just like that, the Magic came out firing, scoring 35 points in the first quarter and never trailing.
“Yeah, just that we came out a little too tight, lax, whatever the word is, maybe both for some of us, but just didn’t come out with the right energy,” Cunningham said. “Gave them life further on. And then, you know, we had to deal with that for the rest of the game. We were better in stints, but can’t dig a hole like that.”
He’s right. The Pistons can’t dig a hole like that in Game 2 on Wednesday night. Because if they do, and they lose, the Magic would not only have homecourt advantage – they got that with Sunday’s victory – but could close out the series without another win in Detroit, with three of the next four games coming in Orlando.
That’s precisely what makes Game 2 a must-win game for the Pistons. It’s bad enough they lost the opener at LCA, where they were 31-9. But now they’ve let the Magic set a hard-edged tone in the kind of the game that could lead them to steal the series.
“I know that they feel great about this game,” Cunningham said. “This was a big win for them. They came in, they handled their business and stole one on the road. That’s what you want to do in the playoff series.
“So I’m sure that they feel great about that. Obviously, we’re sick about losing this one. It’s a long series, though. There’s no confidence dropped from us. We know that team. They know us. So it’ll be a long, fun series.”
Cunningham might be right, because the Pistons are arguably the better team. They have enough talent and more depth.
What the Pistons don’t have is the advantage of desperation. They had an excellent season from start to finish, closed with a 60-22 record, and wrapped up the East’s top seed on April 4.
The Magic, meanwhile, have been playing with fire (and not always the good kind) down the stretch, while their fifth-year coach, Jamahl Mosley, entered the postseason on the hottest of hot seats after his squad went 0-7 in road playoff games over the past two seasons.
To make things even worse, the Magic lost the regular-season finale to the Boston Celtics – well, their reserves, at least – to blow their chance at the 7-seed and homecourt in the play-in tournament. Then Orlando lost to the Philadelphia 76ers (on the road, of course) in the first play-in game before beating the Charlotte Hornets (in Orlando) to advance to a best-of-seven series – featuring four road games – vs. the Pistons.
Now, it looks like the Magic have found their form, as they routed the Hornets, 121-90, and stunned the Pistons. And just like that, Mosley went from hot seat to just plain hot.
Banchero wouldn’t go so far as to say the victory set up his team to steal the series, but he didn’t deny it was exactly the kind of start Orlando needed.
“It’s just a good win for us as a team getting it on the road against a great team and 1-seed,” he said. “But at the end of the day, we got to come back Wednesday, you know, reciprocate it, you know?
“They’re not going to lay down. They’re going to turn it up. So we’ve got to be ready for that. And it’s just one-game-at-a-time mentality, you know? That’s what it’s got to be. It’s the first of four.”
Yes, it’s just the first of four wins the Magic needs to advance. If the Pistons don’t find an answer quickly, the math – and hardly anyone else – won’t be on their side when they head to Central Florida this weekend.
Contact Carlos Monarrez at cmonarrez@freepress.com and follow him on X @cmonarrez.
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