Detroit Red Wings give themselves too much credit for doing minimum in their playoff chase

If the Detroit Red Wings don’t end up qualifying for the Stanley Cup playoffs this season, they’ll always have Monday night at Little Caesars Arena.

The anxious, raucous atmosphere during the regular-season home finale mirrored the tightly wound, cotton-mouth feel of the playoffs and was the closest thing the Wings have experienced to a postseason atmosphere in their seven seasons in the new building.