Patrick Kane shares true feelings on Red Wings coach Todd McLellan
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Red Wings head coach Todd McLellan has completely turned things around for Detroit since being hired in late December, and Patrick Kane's performance has taken off under the new leadership.
The Detroit Red Wings have completely turned their year around under the leadership of new coach Todd McLellan, who has led them to a pair of 7-game winning streaks since being hired on December 26 and helped vault themselves right back into a Wild Card playoff spot.
The pair of 7-game win streaks for Detroit inside of 20 games was the 1st time in their illustrious franchise history that they accomplished the feat, and the effect that McLellan has had on the team hasn't gone unnoticed.
Patrick Kane, who saw his production take off under McLellan after a slow start to the year, believes that their new coach has essentially resurrected the team from the dead compare to where they were in the standings in late December.
It's been great. I'm not sure any of us really thought we'd be in this position right now. What a spot we're in. It's fun when you're playing for something every night. We're in a good spot and we put ourselves there.
You have to give Todd a lot of credit, too, he's done a great job of coming in and kind of settling things down and making sure we're playing aggressive. Even when we get back on our heels a little bit, and things aren't going our way, to keep pushing forward and try to turn the game in our favor.
Patrick Kane is now the NHL's all-time leader in shootout goals
The Red Wings turned to Kane in the shootout on Tuesday night, and he beat goaltender Joey Daccord with a forehand-backhand deke glove side.
In doing so, he became the NHL's all-time leader in shootout goals (53) since the skills contest was instituted in 2005-06 if there wasn't a deciding goal in the five-minute overtime.
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