Trending: Frustration mounting as Wings can't find way out of skid

DENVER -- Frustration is starting to mount for the Detroit Red Wings.
Their 5-1 loss to the Colorado Avalanche at Pepsi Center Sunday afternoon marked their 10th straight defeat (0-9-1).

The Wings fell to 26-35-11 overall and 13-21-3 on the road while the Avalanche improved to 39-25-8 overall and 25-9-2 at home.
Justin Abdelkader scored for Detroit while Gabriel Landeskog, Blake Comeau, Nathan MacKinnon (two) and Tyson Barrie (power play) scored for Colorado.
1. Losing streak hits 10: Nothing is going right for the Wings at the moment. Although the effort is there on a nightly basis, they can't find a way out of their skid. The last Wings team to lose more than nine in a row was the 1981-82 team, which lost a franchise-record 14 games in a row from Feb. 24, 1982 to March 25, 1982. Before this season, the Wings had had losing streaks of six games or more just three times in the previous four seasons. The Wings had a slow start Sunday but came out in the second and outshot the Avalanche, 16-8. But they only managed one goal despite having more time in the offensive zone than the Avalanche.
Quotable: "I actually thought we had a few chances in the first, too. I thought we have up too many easy chances in the first. We got to be better than that. I thought our second was excellent. We got to keep the puck out of our net more, it's hurting our momentum. We're getting momentum and then the puck goes in your net. We're not scoring enough, but I think part of that is usually what happens you have momentum, and then you eventually score. Right now it seems like when we're building that momentum we're getting scored on, so we got to make sure we do a better job of keeping the puck out of our net." - Wings coach Jeff Blashill
Quotable II: "That part am I proud of. I think guys are working hard. They put the time in and on game days, we prepare ourselves for every game. But it almost makes it a little tougher that we have lost 10 in a row." - Wings captain Henrik Zetterberg
Quotable III: "For me, I'm just trying to grow every day. It's not a fun feeling to get used to, and now of these guys are used to it. In this organization, it's got a winning atmosphere. But every day you gotta go out there like it's a playoff game. It doesn't matter if you're in the playoffs or not. For me personally, it's just about growing as an NHL defenseman. I'm not a veteran in this league at all, so every day, every game, it's going out there, seeing the guys who've been doing this for a long time and trying to do what they do." - Nick Jensen
2. Justin Abdelkader: Things were looking rather bleak midway through the second period as the Avalanche had taken a 3-0 lead on McKinnon's 37th goal of the season. But the Wings did have some good offensive zone time in the second and finally were able to cash in at 12:38 when Abdelkader flipped the puck over Colorado goaltender Semyon Varlamov. Martin Frk and Luke Glendening assisted on Abdelkader's 12th goal of the season and first since March 4 at Minnesota. The 12 goals are the third-most in a single season for Abdelkader. He had 23 in 2014-15 and 19 in 2015-16. It also gives Abdelkader 99 career goals. Abdelkader was in the penalty box along with Mike Green when the Avalanche scored their fifth goal with the two-man advantage at 16:26 of the third. Abdelkader received a 10-minute misconduct for saying something to the referees.
Quotable: "I'm not going to comment on any calls right now. There's no point. Obviously, I was frustrated in the penalty box. I should have not said anything to the ref but it's on me. Yeah, it's frustration. It's not fun. We just got to regroup and come back Tuesday." - Abdelkader
Quotable II: "I think how hard every game is as you get down to the end of the year, I think understanding how to fight through adversity, I think it's a great thing for people. Nick Foles talked about it after they won the Super Bowl, how much adversity he's had to fight through, you hope to come out stronger on the other side, that's what life's about. This isn't supposed to be easy. This is the National Hockey League, sports isn't supposed to be easy, it's supposed to be hard. That's why it feels so good when you win. So we got to find a way to keep fighting here. I think our guys have done an excellent job of staying with it. Our competitiveness has been great. We got to make sure we're fighting through that frustration at the end of the game, we can't have that, but we got to keep playing the right way and focusing on 60 minutes of playing the right way." - Blashill
3. Jared Coreau: Coreau made his fourth start of the season and his first career appearance against the Avalanche. At 3:58 of the first, Landeskog tipped McKinnon's shot past Coreau. At 14:38 of the first, Blake Comeau went to the net and lifted the puck over Coreau on a pass from Carl Soderberg. In the second, MacKinnon beat Coreau over the glove for his 37th goal of the season. He scored his 38th on a wraparound that went off of Jonathan Ericsson and into the net at 7:09 of the third.
Quotable: "It was MacKinnon coming down. I know he can shoot and he went to shoot and he fanned on the puck and he stuck with it and I tried to stick with it and I thought maybe he'd shoot it short side, so I just tried throwing a leg out and he threw it in front and Ericsson was doing his job in cutting that off and it goes off his stick and in the net. It's tough." - Coreau
Quotable II: "I'm not putting it on him. This is a team thing. But I also would say I've talked to our team about guys have to step up and make plays. That's the goaltenders, too. You gotta step up and make tons of saves here. That's what all the teams that win the league do. We're gonna need that on Tuesday to win." - Blashill