The Arizona Coyotes are at the sort of “rock bottom” Blashill felt a couple of years ago. The Buffalo Sabres are showing what good coaching can do for a young team, while the Ottawa Senators are a stride behind Detroit in hanging with better opponents. The Red Wings added talent and no longer look like the league’s doormat. Rebuilding is a difficult time in any professional sports league, and the opening weeks of the NHL season show just how different things can be. As hard as some of those moments are to live, you hope you grow, and a number of our guys have grown even through some of the difficulties we faced.” “I think we have some guys that have matured over the years in terms of living through some of that. “We’ve been in situations where we’ve found our way to wins and I think that breeds confidence,” Blashill said. It showed their longtime coach how far the team has come. The reminder of how many things have changed over the past 19 months was followed the next day by his Detroit Red Wings coming back to win a game they likely would have lost at any other time over the past two years. Last week, Jeff Blashill tried to go to the same restaurant where he had dinner in March 2020, before the NHL season shut down.

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