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Another day, another extremely important game for the Red Wings in their fight to climb back into the playoff race. Fortunately for them the Atlantic Division outside of Montreal is more of a war of attrition than a race for the playoffs right now. Even with all the injuries, blown third period leads and inconsistent play a win tonight would pull the Wings to within two points of Boston.
Boston welcomes the Wings tonight with problems of their own. Their coach is on the hottest of hot seats (at least with the Boston media), their defense is suddenly very porous and Tuukka Rask is starting to show signs of overuse. There could a playoff like atmosphere to this one as both sides need these two points desperately.
That win was made more difficult yesterday for the Red Wings with the news that both Tomas Vanek and Dylan Larkin will be out for tonight’s game (Larkin will also miss Thursday game against Toronto. The Wings are still hopeful Vanek can go Thursday). As a result, Tomas Jurco will get possibly his last best chance at showing the Red Wings why he belongs on this team. The other spot is still a little murky. The most likely course is that Drew Miller, fresh off of clearing waivers, will take the other spot in the lineup but the Red Wings have not confirmed that yet.
Red Wings Lineup
Forwards
|
Gustav Nyquist |
Henrik Zetterberg |
Anthony Mantha |
|
Andreas Athanasiou |
Frans Nielsen |
Tomas Tatar |
|
Justin Abdelkader |
Riley Sheahan |
Tomas Jurco |
|
Drew Miller |
Luke Glendening |
Darren Helm |
Defensemen
|
Danny DeKesyer |
Mike Green |
|
Niklas Kronwall |
Nick Jensen |
|
Jonathan Ericsson |
Xavier Ouellet |
Goaltenders
|
Jared Coreau |
|
Petr Mrazek |
Scratches: Ryan Sproul
Injuries: Tomas Vanek, Dylan Larkin, Steve Ott, Jimmy Howard, Brendan Smith, Johan Franzen, Joe Vitale
Bruins Lineup
Forwards
|
Brad Marchand |
Patrice Bergeron |
Frank Vatrano |
|
Tim Schaller |
David Kerjci |
David Pastrnak |
|
Ryan Spooner |
Riley Nash |
David Backes |
|
Matt Beleskey |
Dominic Moore |
Austin Czarnik |
Defensemen
|
Zdeno Chara |
Brandon Carlo |
|
Torey Krug |
Adam McQuaid |
|
Joe Morrow |
John-Michael Liles |
Goaltenders
|
Tuukka Rask |
|
Zane McIntyre |
Scratches/Injuries: Colin Miller, Kevin Miller, Jimmy Hayes
|
RED WINGS |
THE MATCHUP |
BRUINS |
|
20-19-8 (48 pts, 6th in Atlantic) |
Record |
23-21-6 (52 pts; 3rd in Atlantic) |
|
2.43 (23rd in NHL) |
Goals Per Game |
2.42 (24th in NHL) |
|
2.89 (t21st) |
Goals Against Per Game |
2.52 (10th) |
|
11.3% (30th) |
Power Play % |
16.9% (t20th) |
|
80.8% (18th) |
Penalty Kill % |
86.6% (2nd) |
|
28.9 (t24th) |
Shots For Per Game |
34.1 (2nd) |
|
30.2 (t16th) |
Shots Against Per Game |
26.7 (2nd) |
|
52.6 (4th) |
Faceoff % |
53.0 (3rd) |
|
Tomas Vanek (12) |
Goals Leader |
David Pastrnak (19) |
|
Zetterberg/Vanek (31) |
Points Leader |
Brad MArchand (45) |
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Game Day Prediction Contest
Would you like to predict the outcome of the game and potentially become internet famous? Well you’re in luck, because here’s your opportunity. Here’s how it works.
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.
Each correct winning team prediction is worth 1 point. Each correct player of the game prediction is worth 2 points. Each correct final score prediction is worth 5 points. If you get all three correct you’ll receive 15 points.
