8:00p ET, Madison Square Garden
New York, NY
TV: NBCSN
Radio: 97.1 FM The Ticket // 1270 AM CBS Sports Radio
A Win! A dominating one at the Joe on Monday night led by the first Career hat-trick for Mike Green. Tonight, “Wednesday Night Rivalry!” It will be Detroit’s first look at Jimmy Vesey, who scored his first NHL goal Monday night against San Jose.
Each game against the Rangers the past two seasons has been decided by one goal. Between Jimmy Howard and Petr Mrazek, seven of the last eight games they started against the Rangers have been one goal games, except a 3-0 loss in March of 2014, in which Howard started at MSG. History tells us this, there will be little margin for error tonight for the Red Wings as these teams have played close games.
Both of the Rangers wins this season have been at The Garden. Henrik Lundqvist is 1-1 with a 3.03 goals against average and a save percentage of 87% this season. They put seven goals up on San Jose on Monday night at Chris Kreider is playing good hockey right now with six points in three games.
After a dominating performance Monday night, these follow up games are critical for the Red Wings to establish some consistency and structure that will carry out through the season. They need to show us is this Wings team more of what we saw in Florida or closer to what we saw at the Joe?
Red Wings Expected Lineups
Red Wings Expected Lineups
Forwards
|
Justin Abdelkader |
Frans Nielsen |
Riley Sheahan |
|
Tomas Tatar |
Dylan Larkin |
Henrik Zetterberg |
|
Gustav Nyquist |
Darren Helm |
Tomas Vanek |
|
Andreas Athanasiou |
Luke Glendening |
Drew Miller |
Defensemen
|
Danny DeKesyer |
Mike Green |
|
Brendan Smith |
Xavier Ouellet |
|
Jonathan Ericsson |
Alexey Marchenko |
Goaltenders
|
Petr Mrazek (starting) |
|
Jimmy Howard |
Scratches: Ryan Sproul , Steve Ott
Injuries: Niklas Kronwall (knee), Tomas Nosek (lower body injury), Tomas Jurco (back), Johan Franzen (concussion), Joe Vitale (concussion) Villi Saarijarvi (wrist), Daniel Renouf (knee)
Rangers Expected Lineups
Injuries:
Rangers Expected Lineups
Forwards
|
Chris Kreider |
Mika Zibanejad |
Rick Nash |
|
Jimmy Vesey |
Derek Stepan |
Mats Zuccarello |
|
J.T. Miller |
Kevin Hayes |
Jesper Fast |
|
Josh Jooris |
Brandon Pirri |
Michael Grabner |
Defensemen
|
Ryan McDonagh |
Nick Holden |
|
Marc Staal |
Adam Clendening |
|
Brady Skjei |
Dylan Mcllrath |
Goaltenders
|
Henrik Lundqvist (starting) |
|
Antti Raanta |
Injuries: Dan Girardi (groin), Pavel Buchnevich (back), Oscar Lindberg (hip)
|
RED WINGS |
THE MATCH-UP |
RANGERS |
|
1-2-0 (2pts, last in Atlantic) |
Record |
2-1-0 (4pts; 3rd in Metropolitan) |
|
3.33 (14th in NHL) |
Goals Per Game |
4.67 (t2nd in NHL) |
|
3.67 (t21st) |
Goals Against Per Game |
3.33 (t17th) |
|
37.5% (6th) |
Power Play % |
20.0% (15th) |
|
72.7% (25th) |
Penalty Kill % |
83.3% (t14th) |
|
Mike Green (3) |
Goals Leader |
Chris Kreider (3) |
|
Vanek/Green (5) |
Points Leader |
Chris Kreider (6) |
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Game Day Prediction Contest
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because here’s your opportunity. Here’s how it works.
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answers will be disregarded. All submissions are timestamped and will
be accepted only until the official game start time. All other
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person, please. POTG will be determined by the collective of WiiM
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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
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