The Red Wings finish up their preseason competition this afternoon with their game against Farjestads BK at 1 p.m. EDT. The game will be the first of three contests this week in Sweden. The next two will be on Friday and Saturday against St. Louis in Stockholm. While you won’t be able to catch today’s game on TV, you can watch the game by checking out NHL.com as they will be streaming the game live online.
Henrik Zetterberg missed all eight exhibition games due to a groin injury, but expects to play today in Sweden. MLive.com has the anticipated lineup:
Forwards (13)
Johan Franzen–Pavel Datsyuk–Tomas Holmstrom
Todd Bertuzzi-Henrik Zetterberg-Dan Cleary
Ville Leino–Valtteri Filppula–Jason Williams
Kris Draper–Justin Abdelkader–Patrick Eaves–Kirk MaltbyDefensemen (7)
Nicklas Lidstrom–Brian Rafalski
Niklas Kronwall–Brad Stuart
Jonathan Ericsson–Brett Lebda
Derek MeechGoalies (2)
Chris Osgood
Jimmy Howard
Andreas Lilja and Darren Helm went to Sweden with the team, but will not play due to their respective injuries. Daniel Larsson also came on the trip as the team’s emergency goaltender (third on the depth chart).
