from Helene St. James of the Detroit Free Press,

“We’re still there,” Jimmy Howard said after starring in his favorite road arena with a 36-save performance. “We haven’t been put away yet and we are going to continue to try to grind out wins.

“There’s no quit in this room no matter what’s going on. We want to perform well and we want to win games.”

The front office can’t say it publicly, but the organization is best served by missing the playoffs and getting into the draft lottery. To that end, management is looking to make moves – be in by Monday, or around draft time in June – and acquire draft picks or prospects. Their top trade asset, defenseman Mike Green, accompanied the team on the trip to New York but in all likelihood will be gone by Monday’s 3 p.m. deadline. He missed a sixth straight game because of a sore neck but he skated Sunday morning and coach Jeff Blashill said Green, “is getting real close, but he’s still day-to-day.”

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