Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin opened up about his team's playoff push as the 2024-25 regular season nears an end.

The Canadiens hold the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Eastern Conference. The Red Wings are six points behind with a game in hand. So are the New York Rangers, who play the Tampa Bay Lightning at Madison Square Garden on Monday (7 p.m. ET; FDSNSUN, MSG, TVAS).

The Detroit Red Wings will need better from the skaters for a chance to win Tuesday, when they play in Montreal, which is on a five-game win streak.

The Panthers were without Aleksander Barkov, Matthew Tkachuk, Sam Reinhart and Sam Bennett — arguably their best four forwards — and defensemen Aaron Ekblad (suspension) and Gustav Forsling.

The Red Wings are starting to build some momentum at the right time of the season. Following a hard-fought 2-1 win over the Boston Bruins last weekend, Detroit suffered a loss to

The Detroit Red Wings completed an important sweep of their final multi-game homestand of the 2024-25 regular season with a 2-1 victory over the Florida Panthers at Little Caesars Arena on Sunday night and have now pointed in four consecutive contests as they continue to keep pace in the race for the Eastern Conference’s second Wild-Card spot.