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Detroit Red Wings sound alarm: ‘Got to fix something’ before Olympics
The Detroit Red Wings are sounding the alarms. They have two games left and are winless in their last three as the Olympic breaks nears.
Detroit Red Wings: ‘We didn’t respond’ against Colorado Avalanche
Detroit Red Wings Dylan Larkin, J.T. Compher & Todd McLellan, Jan. 31, 2026 in Detroit.
Todd McLellan rattled off a litany of things he didn’t like about the Detroit Red Wings’ latest performance, and then a litany of things they need to look at in order to regain their footing.
The Wings head into their last two games before the Olympic break, both on the road, and the first against a team that just leveled them. The Colorado Avalanche await the Wings again on Monday, Feb. 2, in Denver, having just picked them part Saturday in Detroit.
That 5-0 loss was what the Wings deserved; they looked flat after failing to generate anything during two power plays in the first period. The Avalanche, on the other hand, just kept building.
“We just didn’t have a response to their offense,” forward Dylan Larkin said. “They got to what they like to do and we kind of just watched a little bit.”
The Avs top the NHL standings, but were missing three key players from their lineup and had lost four of their last five games. They’re not invincible, the Wings just made them look that way with a performance that deserved nothing but criticism.
“A lack of energy, a lack of drive, a lack of execution,” McLellan said. “You can’t have all of those things disappear at one point and expect to have success. I didn’t think we skated well at all. I didn’t think we passed real well at all, which affects your skating. And then when it was time to do some of the harder, the heavier things, battles, 50-50s loose stuff, the foot races, they were much better than we were.
“We’ve got to fix something.”
It’s been a week since the Wings returned from a three-game road trip with five points, and there was a consensus among players and McLellan that this season, when they’ve hit a ditch, they’ve been able to to drive themselves out. Now they’re trying to gain traction after picking up just one point from a three-game home stand.
“We have to figure out why we’re flat,” McLellan said. “There’s different reasons for that. One is lack of focus. And if there’s a lack of focus, then that’s on all of us to get it back and make sure we’re executing. It could be that you get stale with line mates and it’s not working. It could be complacency that slips in and you’re okay with what’s going on and that’s wrong. We have to fix that.
“It could be a bit of a fatigue factor. And if it is that, then we’ve got to suck it up. We have six periods left. And those could be the deciding points. If we aren’t completely willing to dig in and get after them, then regret comes in many different ways and at many different times. Or we can dig in and at least give ourselves an opportunity.”
The Wings (32-18-6) are still in second place in the Atlantic Division, but the Buffalo Sabres, Montreal Canadiens and Boston Bruins are within close chase. And most of the players in the room should still remember the lesson from 2023-24, when the Wings missed the playoffs by a tiebreaker. That’s how valuable a single point can be. Feeling sorry or frustrated over how things have gone these last few games can’t fester.
“The outside, the rest of the hockey world doesn’t care,” McLellan said. “We have to care. We have to get it back on track. This is what it feels like to be in a battle and in a race, and that’s good for us to be in it. But the fact that we’re in it, we have to respect the opportunity that we have.”
These last two weeks have shown the Wings playing some of their best hockey, during the road trip, and then coming home and looking progressively worse.
“You’re going to have ups and downs,” J.T. Compher said. “It’s stopping the downs. Todd said during the game that when it’s going bad, you’ve got to stop it. And it doesn’t mean it goes all the way back up to the best level you’ve got. It’s just got to inch back upwards.
“There’s a ton of belief in our room. There’s a lot of confidence in our room. And we’ve done it all year. We just need to return to that level.”
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Chickens and geese that went missing from a local nonprofit’s Detroit site were found in the backyard of a nearby home, the director of operations said Wednesday.
The Full Circle Foundation, a Grosse Point Park-based nonprofit, said more than a dozen chickens and geese were believed stolen from a chicken coop on Detroit’s east side that also features the Full Circle Edible Garden.
The nonprofit provides training and job opportunities for young people with special needs.
Neighbors who learned from news reports about the missing flock found the “chickens were being held in the backyard of a vacant home not far from the Full Circle Edible Garden,” said Stephanie DiVirgil, director of operations. She said Ribbon Farm 4-H owns the flock.
“The homeowner was contacted, and she reached out to Full Circle to confirm,” said DiVirgil. “We were able to retrieve all of the chickens and geese that were found on the property, 19 in total.”
The foundation and Ribbon Farms 4-H are working to secure the site, including cameras, fencing and lights.
“We will likely start a fundraising campaign to have these items installed,” DiVirgil said. “We’ve gotten amazing support from the community, including offers to help pay for these additional security measures.”
DETROIT (WXYZ) — Human remains were found in a furnace of an home on Detroit’s west side, the Detroit Police Department tells us.
The remains was found by an individual working on the home in the 5200 block of S Clarendon just after 11 a.m.
Anyone with information can call 313-596-2260 or CrimeStoppers at 1-800-SpeakUp.
Stay with WXYZ.com for updates on this developing story.
The Detroit Police Department is investigating after a 5-year-old child was shot in the arm near a park on Tuesday.
The shooting happened at about 8:50 p.m. near the Fargo-Oaklfield Playground on the city’s west side. Police Chief Todd Bettison says the child was in front of his home riding a bike with his father supervising at the time of the shooting.
Bettison says an individual at the park fired multiple shots, striking the child. He says the boy’s father reported hearing shots and the child falling from his bike.
Bettison says the child is expected to be OK.
Bettison says the person appears to have been firing shots randomly, which he calls “problematic.” He says a person of interest is described as possibly between 15 and 16 years old and wearing a mask. He says the person is known to frequent the area.
“When you fire a weapon, what goes up must go down,” Bettison said. “To parents and everyone, know where your kids are. Juveniles should not have guns, and whether you’re an adult or a child, you should not be firing a weapon inside of the city limits.”
Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield released a statement, saying in part, “By the grace of God, this young boy will recover from his injury and is on his way home from the hospital. With that said, this incident was senseless and could have had a much more tragic ending.
“Every child in Detroit deserves to feel safe riding their bike, playing outside, and simply being a child in their own neighborhood. We cannot accept a reality where our children are placed in harm’s way because someone chose to recklessly fire a gun.”
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 800-Speak Up.
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