{"id":192874,"date":"2021-10-28T13:42:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T13:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/red-wings-are-coming-ask-their-foes-better-than-people-give-them-credit-for"},"modified":"2021-10-28T13:42:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T13:42:52","slug":"red-wings-are-coming-ask-their-foes-better-than-people-give-them-credit-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/red-wings-are-coming-ask-their-foes-better-than-people-give-them-credit-for","title":{"rendered":"Red Wings are coming. Ask their foes: &#8216;Better than people give them credit for&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to Wednesday night&#8217;s game against the Capitals, Jeff Blashill was reminded of the last time he was in D.C., preparing to face the Caps on the day COVID-19 wrecked the 2019-20 season. It was a merciful end for the Red Wings, who were mired in one of the worst seasons in franchise history. The mood in the locker room now, Blashill said with a well-of-course smile, is &#8220;significantly better.&#8221; &#8220;We had gone through as hard a year as I&#8217;d been through professionally,&#8221; Blashill said. &#8220;We were at a spot where we all hope we look back and say, &#8216;That was rock bottom.&#8217; And then organizationally we started to trend in the right direction. So from an atmosphere standpoint, that was really, really difficult on all of us that were there. And it&#8217;s definitely way better (now). You just have more enjoyment in what you do when you have success.&#8221; A few hours later, the Red Wings fell behind the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the team&#8217;s best seven-game start since 2016-17, when everything crumbled. Those Wings were growing old. These Wings are growing up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,125],"tags":[150,149,58],"class_list":["post-192874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nhl","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}