"The way the Red Wings broke out of their slump led to a much more pleasant -- if short-manned -- practice Monday.

"No question," coach Mike Babcock said. "Relief. You can just tell by the way they were passing the puck today. What happens is, the game is tight; the game is tight, and suddenly as you loosen up and you score, then there's more room out there. There's not more room that they created or even that you created, it's just you feel it, because you're executing and you're fluid. When nothing is going right, you're grinding, and that's just the natural way the game is.""