The players said Blashill also stressed that there's nothing that can be done about what's already happened so stay in the moment.
"The message was just we just have to move on to the next game, just think about the next game, the next shift," defenseman Dennis Cholowski said. "You can't think about the past, the past is the past, it's over now. Just have to move on and try to stay positive. That's really all you can do."
On Friday, the Wings lost in Carolina, 7-3, and then followed that up by getting shut out, 4-0, by the Florida Panthers on Saturday.
"We just like to live in facts," Blashill said. "I didn't think our pushback on Saturday was good enough when we got down. I thought Friday was, I thought we kept pushing, kept playing. I thought Saturday wasn't good enough, but you can get frustrated, but frustration is probably the No. 1 wasted emotion. It does no good to anybody or anything, so you have to learn from it and move on. Again, if we win tonight, we're all going to come to the locker room and feel good. Any day you win in this league is a great day, so let's go try to win a hockey game tonight."
The Wings started the season with a 5-3 victory in Nashville on Oct. 5 and they are 10-1 in their last 11 games against the Predators since the start of the 2014-15 season.
"Obviously, everyone was excited to start the year, so everyone was hyped up," Mantha said. "I don't know, I just think against Nashville, we're always ready and we play pretty good hockey. So hopefully we can do that tonight."
In the morning skate, Mantha was back on the top line with Dylan Larkin and Tyler Bertuzzi.
"We had chemistry early on," Mantha said. "He wanted to try and couple of different lines for the past couple of games. It didn't really work out the way we wanted, I think. Us three as a line, we've done great things this year, so hopefully we can get it going again."
YOUNG D GROUP: On Saturday, veteran defenseman Mike Green missed the game due to illness and did not skate Monday.
Blashill said Green remains out because of that illness but said, to his knowledge, this illness is not related to the virus that kept him out for two long stretches last season.
Fellow veteran defenseman Trevor Daley, who was unable to finish Saturday's game, skated on Monday but did not take part in rushes.
Blashill said Daley would also miss the game.
With Danny DeKeyser still on the shelf with a lower-body injury, that means the Wings will dress a group of mostly very young defensemen.