Red Wings going stir crazy amid sparse schedule

The Red Wings have close to a week between games, so what do they do to handle the free time?

Helene St. Janmes of the Detroit Free Press takes a look what they will do with their free time.


This is what it has come to for the Detroit Red Wings, thanks to their college hockey-like schedule: putting tape on the locker room carpet and eating too much.

Coach Mike Babcock said he was going to forgo his usual post-practice run (it was raining pretty hard) and instead "go eat too much." That's what happens to a team that last played Saturday at Minnesota and doesn't play again until Friday at home against Columbus.

"Is it unbelievable or what?" Babcock said. "My God, it's painful. Painful for the players and painful for me. They're probably sick of me, and I don't like watching them practice, either.

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