from Ted Kulfan of the Detroit News,

The template is there on how the Red Wings want to play, how they feel they need to play to be successful.

Just look at Friday's victory in Pittsburgh, and Monday's win against Anaheim. Both overtime victories (Pittsburgh in a shootout), both low-scoring games with the Wings playing stout defense.

When the Wings have played that way this season, generally the end result has been positive.

Now, it's a matter of the Wings doing it much more often than not.

“What we want to do here is build a team that can win in the playoffs,” coach Jeff Blashill said. “So to do that, you have to learn how to play tight games. This is what Los Angeles (Wednesday's opponent) has done and (Kings coach) Todd (McLellan) has done a good job with their group. They grind, and find ways to grind out low-scoring wins.

"Once we learn that that’s the best way for us to have long-term success, we’ll be a better team. We’re going through the learning process, and it just takes time and it takes time to get the players.”

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