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Lalonde on immediately going from a multi-game winning streak to a multi-game losing streak

“In your career, you go through some things like this. It’s just trying to find some answers throughout the lineup. It’s the reality. We have not handled our group very well with Dylan (Larkin) out. There’s no reason for that. He’s a special, special player and engine on a lot of nights, but we have very capable groups and lineup.”

Perron on if he senses tentativeness in the Red Wings’ game

“Possibly, but that’s what’s been costing us is mistakes that we shouldn’t make at the wrong time. I don’t know what it is, but find a way to not make it. Every team is going through that. We thought maybe at times we were going to make some plays to get to the playoffs, but this league is too good and keeps you honest. I think that’s what’s happening a little bit to us right now. You could say maybe you’re being too tentative at times to make plays, but that’s not what I feel.”

Perron on playing strong defense before discussing a lack of offense

“You don’t get the same type of offense throughout the whole year. This is just different hockey at this time of year. You don’t outscore your problems all the way through the year. I just don’t believe in that. I haven’t seen a team recently winning the Stanley Cup that way. Over my whole career, I haven’t seen that. We got to find a way to put sound, solid game for 60 minutes that we can hang our hat to and be proud of it at the end of the night. Most of the time, we’re going to have to allow less than two or three goals.”

Chiarot on improving defensively going forward

“It could be a number of different factors, but we need to get this thing going in the right direction. We need to be better defensively. I think you see the chances we give up, they’re ones that shouldn’t happen, especially at this time of year when everything should be rolling in the same direction. It should be like a machine by this point, just everyone knows exactly where they’re supposed to be and be in there at the right time. We’re not there yet and we need to get there in a hurry.”