Niyo: 'Angry' Wings can only blame themselves as playoff hopes take a hit

Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin on 3-2 loss against Senators at LCA Dylan Larkin scored a goal in his return to the lineup in a 3-2 loss against Ottawa on Tuesday. Detroit — They got mad. But they couldn’t get even. And now the Red Wings find themselves in the same spot they’ve been before, falling behind again as they try to outrun their own haunting history. On nights like this, it starts to feel inevitable, too. That decade-long playoff drought isn’t going to end itself in Detroit, and after results like that — a 3-2 loss at home to Ottawa in what captain Dylan Larkin had dubbed a “massive game” — it gets harder to see a way out of this malaise. Far from impossible, mind you. And for a...