Red Wings' Frontline Woes Mount in Stretch Run

The Detroit Red Wings face mounting injury concerns up front with centers Dylan Larkin and Andrew Copp sidelined amid the grind of the stretch run. Larkin buckled his knee in a tough loss to Ottawa, while Copp joins him on maintenance, testing the depth Detroit built with vets like Faulk and Perron. Coach Todd McLellan insists they're day-to-day bumps in a brutal schedule, but in a knife-edge Atlantic race, every shift without their top pivots raises the stakes for playoff positioning.