from Gregg Krupa of the Detroit News,

“We’ve got to come out more ready to compete,” Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill said. “Then, I thought our guys battled extremely hard to put ourselves in position.

“After we kept getting down, we kept fight back. It shows the character in the room. I mean, Zetterberg was unreal. As a warrior, just unbelievable.”

The winning goal came on yet another mistake, this one by young aspiring players who generally played well Tuesday, and whom Blashill also singled out for lionhearted play.

When Dylan Larkin and Anthony Mantha failed to grab a loose puck in front of Jimmy Howard on the first shift of overtime, the pesky Marchand ate it up.

“I thought Larkin battled hard. I thought Mantha battled hard,” Blashill said. “I thought we had guys who really dug in. And we just kept digging and digging and digging.

“And then, in the end, we’ve got to grow up. We can’t give away those goals like that. It’s crazy. The puck’s sitting there. It should have been our puck, and we want to go on offense before we have the puck.

“So, we’ve got to learn from those situations.”

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