DETROIT—The memory of their demise in the NHL’s Western Conference final a year ago continues to spur the Detroit Red Wings on to greater things this spring.
“We’ve got a group that wants to win bad and we’re determined,” says coach Mike Babcock. “We’ve been here before and never got the job done.
“We’d like to take the next step.”
The Red Wings are determined they won’t let the Dallas Stars do to them what the Anaheim Ducks did in the 2007 conference final, and they trounced the visiting Stars 4-1 in the opener to drive the point home last night.