It was only one game, but it was a game that went so badly one player referred to it as being ' shell shocked.'

Minutes after the buzzer sounded on an embarrassing 5-1 season-opening loss, Detroit Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin sounded like he did so many times last season: Dejected.

"We shot ourselves in the foot so many times that we didn't have time to get to our game and create offense," he said after Atlantic Division (and Original Six) rival Montreal Canadiens clobbered the Wings at Little Caesars Arena on Thursday, Oct. 9. "And, you know, it's a pretty disappointing lack of execution. And that's really what it comes down to. So the good news to that is it's our first game. We got a chance to fix all that."

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