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"Playing To Win"

04/02/2018 at 3:43pm EDT

from Ted Kulfan of the Detroit News,

The Red Wings are in the final week of the season, have three games left — and not thinking about “tanking” and missing out of better odds in the NHL Entry Draft.

“I understand the importance of trying to get that first pick, I’m not naïve to that,” Blashill said. “But would you want an athlete that didn’t play to win, that would be crazy. We’re going to play to win and we’ll see what the result is.

“I get it, I understand, but you just have to understand from our perspective we’re playing to win.”

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