So, the Red Wings set the NHL's all-time record for home wins at 21 and the achievement is at once impressive and divisive. What it takes to get the desired result -- a victory -- that many times in a row and send your fans home happy each time is mind-boggling. It is a testament to preparation and focus.
The Wings' collective will to win is at a high yet again. Sure, there was a 4-on-4 OT win and a few shootouts along the way so naysayers in Boston -- and Philadelphia especially, where the Flyers of 1975-76 reeled off 20 straight regulation wins in an era with ties galore but no OT and certainly no shootouts -- can snipe away accordingly. http://cnnsi.com/2012/writers/darren_eliot/02/15/red.wings.home.winning.streak/index.html?sct=nhl_wr_a3
- Shacks' Take: I've heard the arguments, shootouts, overtimes, all these false wins, the real record belongs to the teams that won without the help of extra time. This record deserves an asterisk. For those people I say, quit whining. Every sport changes over time and records get affected. It is what it is, Detroit didn't change the rules to get the record, and they simply went out and won, night after night, with the rules that are in play today. It's an incredible accomplishment regardless of the rule and I for one have no problem with Detroit's name being forever etched in the record books.
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