Game Day Updates: Red Wings vs Blue Jackets

Who’s ready for some afternoon hockey! An early start on a Saturday doesn’t at all sound like a recipe for a bad time when your team has trouble starting on-time at night… Too soon?

Time: 1:00pm at Little Caesar’s Arena

Tune In: BSDET, NHLN, 97.1 FM

Scout The Enemy: The Cannon

Expected Roster:

@kenkaldrw on Twitter

Good Morning Red Wings fans. Here are today’s rosters. Goes good with peanut butter and crushed buckeye nuts with grape jelly on white bread. There will be scratches. Enjoy.

@AnsarKhanMLive on Twitter

#RedWings Lalonde: Czarnik left last night on crutches, not available tomorrow and questionable for next week in Sweden. Might need to recall a forward next week for the trip. Husso starting tomorrow. Fabbri and Gostisbehere back in the lineup.

The last time these two squads met, the Wings were flying high above Columbus and shut them out in their own barn. Here’s what we expect CBJ’s lineup to look like today:

Gaudreau-Jenner-Laine
Voronkov-Fantilli-Marchenko
Bemstrom-Sillinger-Roslovic
Texier-Kuraly-Danforth

Werenski-Severson
Provorov-Peeke
Bean-Gudbrandson

Merzlikins
Martin

The Blue Jackets activated Patrik Laine from IR after he missed nine games with an upper-body injury. The Wings held Laine score-less in their previous game in October.

Meanwhile, the Red Wings have been playing pretty poor as of late, at least to the standards that were set just a couple of weeks ago. Last game in particular was tough for me considering Jeff Petry had more minutes than Mortiz Seider. Nevertheless, here’s the lineup:

DeBrincat-Larkin-Raymond
Perron-Compher-Copp
Fabbri-Veleno-Fischer
Sprong-Rasmussen-Kostin

Walman-Seider
Chiarot-Petry
Gostisbehere-Holl

Husso
Reimer

Go Wings.