Todd McLellan offers scathing review of Red Wings' final performance
Todd McLellan was short and blunt about the Detroit Red Wings' dud of a performance in the season finale.
SUNRISE, FL — Todd McLellan was short and blunt. J. T.
Compher , honest. The Detroit Red Wings answered for one last loss for the 2025-26 season, one that served as a snapshot of why they failed to earn a playoff berth yet again. "We didn't play like we had respect for the game tonight," J.
T. Compher said after the Wings fell, 8-1, to the Florida Panthers on Wednesday, April 15. The fans at Amerant Bank Arena gave their team a jubilant sendoff for the summer, even as the Panthers are, like the Wings, done playing.
But unlike the Wings they were the defending Stanley Cup champions, winners of the Cup two straight years, no less. "Both teams came in with nothing on the line and you can see their championship pedigree, so I'm going to compliment the Panthers," McLellan said. "It runs throughout the organization.