Anthony Mantha, like Montembeault a Quebec native, said the Wings have to play a more relentless style than they did in Tampa Saturday night.
"All about the O-zone, O-zone grind," Mantha said. "If we shoot, we need to recover those pucks there, get those second and third chances."
From a defensive standpoint, the Wings will once again be challenged by an excellent power play.
Saturday they faced the league's No. 1 power play in the Tampa Bay Lightning at 28.6 percent and Florida has the third-best power play at 26.7 percent.
"Most teams are real similar on the power play," Blashill said. "You don't see a whole lot of differences from power play to power play. It becomes execution a little bit. It becomes confidence a lot. Certainly the pieces they have -- they got a real shooter in (Mike) Hoffman on that side. (Evgenii) Dadonov's one of the better bumper guys in the league. (Aleksander) Barkov and (Jonathan) Huberdeau, a whole crew. They've got a real good group that way. We're going to have to to a good job of one, staying out of the box, which I thought we did a good job of last night. It will be similar here tonight. I've got confidence in our kill, too. It'll be another good challenge for our kill to see these back-to-back power plays."
Panthers defenseman Keith Yandle leads his team in power-play points with 34, Hoffman is second with 31, Huberdeau is third with 30, Barkov has 28 and Dadonov has 15.
Although the Wings got a power-play goal with one second remaining in their man-advantage against the Lightning's top-ranked penalty kill, they felt they could have scored more with several opportunities.
"I think on the power play, keep it simple," Mantha said. "We're trying to do cross-ice passes, trying to do the hard plays on the entry. I think if we bring it back down to what worked for us and just one-two passes and then shoot and rebound, things like that. Then as a team, just to be intense, skate, be in their face and O-zone grind."
The Panthers have struggled to fill the BB&T Center, which can dampen the atmosphere.
The Wings will look to generate their own energy playing in the second game of a back-to-back.
"We gotta go out and play our butts off," Blashill said. "I didn't think we played good enough as a group last night. I don't think anything should have a factor on us except for our own play, whether it's the other team, the building, anything else. We gotta go out and make sure we play extraordinarily hard. We've been a team that's said every night let's make sure we're outworking the other team. And if we do that, we're a good hockey team. If we don't, we don't put ourselves in position to win that game. So let's go out and make sure we outwork them and out-compete and out-detail them."
HELLO, RILEY: The last time the Wings faced the Panthers was New Year's Eve at Little Caesars Arena.
Since that time, the Panthers have acquired an old friend of the Wings, Riley Sheahan.
The Pittsburgh Penguins traded Sheahan and Derick Brassard, a 2019 second-round pick and two 2019 fourth-round picks in exchange for forwards Nick Bjugstad and Jared McCann on Feb. 1.
"Good for Riley. I like Riley a lot," Blashill said. "Riley was with me for a long time. He's a great, great, greet human being, a real good hockey player. Hopefully, he does a good job down here for Florida. I wish him tons of luck in his career. I hope he doesn't have a great night tonight."
Sheahan has a goal and five assists in 19 games with the Panthers.
