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12:30p ET, Joe Louis Arena
Detroit, MI
TV: NBC
Online Streaming: NBC Live Extra
Radio: 97.1 FM The Ticket // 1270 AM CBS Sports Radio
Wild Blog: Hockey Wilderness
Not many games left, folks. Thank goodness.
The Minnesota Wild clinched a playoff spot yesterday, despite losing to the Vancouver Canucks. The Wild have been a real strong contender all season long, but have fallen flat in the last month. They’ve won only three games out of their last 12. That’s bad.
After today, there will be eight games left on the schedule — four of them being at the Joe before it closes its doors for good.
There’s not much to say at this point. I think we’re all pretty numb to how bad the Red Wings have been. I’m mentally limping into the end of this season. The Wild are a good team, but the Wings have a good opportunity to take it to them as they ride through this slump.
Jimmy Howard is expected to get the start today, that’s the only lineup change anticipated as of right now.
NOTE: The Red Wings will be playing three games in three days starting today. They’ll draw the Hurricanes on Monday and Tuesday.
Red Wings
Forwards
| Tomas Tatar | Henrik Zetterberg | Gustav Nyquist |
| Anthony Mantha | Frans Nielsen | Riley Sheahan |
| Andreas Athanasiou | Dylan Larkin | Justin Abdelkader |
| Luke Glendening | Tomas Nosek | Drew Miller |
Defensemen
| Dan DeKeyser | Nick Jensen |
| Niklas Kronwall | Mike Green |
| Xavier Ouellet | Robbie Russo |
Goaltenders
| Jimmy Howard |
| Petr Mrazek |
Wild
Forwards
| Jason Zucker | Mikko Koivu | Mikael Granlund |
| Zach Parise | Eric Staal | Charlie Coyle |
| Nino Niederreiter | Martin Hanzal | Jason Pominville |
| Chris Stewart | Erik Haula | Jordan Schroeder |
Defensemen
| Ryyan Suter | Jared Spurgeon |
| Marco Scandella | Mathew Dumba |
| Jonas Brodin | NAte Prosser |
Goaltenders
| Devan Dubnyk |
| Darcy Kuemper |
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Game Day Prediction Contest
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Make your game predictions on the winning team, final score, and who the Wings player of the game will be. Enter the required information into the form below using the formats indicated in the questions. If you don't use those formats, your answers will be disregarded. All submissions are timestamped and will be accepted only until the official game start time. All other submissions after that will be disregarded. Only one submission per person, please. POTG will be determined by the collective of WiiM writers.
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