THE GAME
Detroit Red Wings (13-4-2) @ Columbus Blue Jackets (14-6-0)
How 'bout them BJs? They've won five straight games and are tied with the Wings atop the Central Division and the Western Conference. The Wings have not played their best hockey in the last week or so and the 5-1 thrashing from Atlanta on Wednesday was the culmination of some bad play. Hopefully the team isn't too full on turkey from Draper's house to play a good game of hockey tonight (especially Hudler).
THE EXPECTED LINE-UP
Pavel Datsyuk - Henrik Zetterberg - Tomas Holmstrom
Jiri Hudler - Valtteri Filppula - Johan Franzen
Todd Bertuzzi - Mike Modano - Danny Cleary
Justin Abdelkader - Darren Helm - Patrick Eaves
Nicklas Lidstrom - Brad Stuart
Niklas Kronwall - Ruslan Salei
Johnathon Ericsson - Brian Rafalski
Jimmy Howard (starting)
Joey MacDonald
In the press box: Drew Miller (healthy scratch), Jakub Kindl (healthy scratch) and Chris Osgood (groin)
On LTIR: Kris Draper (groin)
WHAT TO WATCH FOR
- Hudler is back in the line-up. Happy needs to show up tonight....
- ...actually the entire team needs to show up tonight. That Atlanta game was garbage. Hopefully the Wings got a wake up call and are jacked up and ready to go against red hot team trying to challenge for the division. Put the BJs where they belong (the bottom of the division).
- Jimmah is 5-0-1 with a 1.31 goals against average in six starts against Columbus.
- The PK has dropped to 16th in the league. Unacceptable.
- The Blue Jackets will be wearing their brand new third jerseys tonight. Try not to confuse them with every other team in the league that wears a jersey with the same exact colors and essentially the same circle logo design.
Let's Go Red Wings.
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