Tonight the Red Wings took on an old rival in the Chicago Blackhawks. Both teams were coming off long layoffs with Detroit not having played since Monday but Chicago had gone almost a full week, not playing since Saturday. Detroit was of course without Bertuzzi and Vrana tonight giving an opportunity for Kubalik and Zadina
Updates We may have second-line Raymond and top-line Perron. That’s the update. Predicted Lineups Red Wings Kubalik-Larkin-PerronZadina-Copp-RaymondSöderblom-Rasmussen-SundqvistSuter-Veleno-Erne Chiarot-SeiderMäättä-HronekLindström-Hägg NedHusso (As always with goaltending, that could change, but polls are leaning Ned.) Blackhawks Athanasiou-Domi-KaneT.Johnson-Toews-RaddyshKurashev-Dickinson-LaffertyKhaira-Entwhistle-Blackwell J.Johnson-S.JonesTinordi-MurphyMcCabe-C.Jones MrazekStalock Keys to the Game Special teams not “special” teams: our units haven’t been god awful, let’s keep it that way,