Morning Skate: Devils at Red Wings
7:30p ET, Joe Louis Arena
Detroit, MI
TV: Fox Sports Detroit Plus
Radio: 97.1 The Ticket/1270 AM
NJ Blog: All About The Jersey
Tonight is about building off the solid win against the Flames and entering the Christmas break on a high note. There's also a nice little revenge factor in this game. I'd appreciate it if the Wings righted the wrong of blowing the game 10 days or so ago in New Jersey.
A lot of unknowns in the lineup at the moment. Jonathan Ericsson is still questionable to return due to an upper body injury. If he doesn't play, Jakub Kindl will get another chance or Xavier Ouellet will get his shot. Either way, the defensive pairs were shaken up yesterday in practice. Danny DeKeyser has moved up next to Niklas Kronwall. Mike Green is now with Brendan Smith. We'll see if those stick come game time.
As far as the forwards go, Jeff Blashill said he hadn't decided if Tomas Nosek will make his debut. I'd personally like to see him get a shot on the 4th line in place on Joakim Andersson. That 4th line might actually be good. No word on who's officially starting in net either. As always, we will update the lines after the Wings morning skate!
Detroit's Expected Lineup
Forwards
| Dylan Larkin | Henrik Zetterberg | Justin Abdelkader |
| Brad Richards | Pavel Dastyuk | Darren Helm |
| Gus Nyquist | Riley Sheahan | Tomas Tatar |
| Joakim Andersson | Luke Glendening | Tomas Jurco |
Defensemen
| Niklas Kronwall | Danny DeKeyser |
| Brendan Smith | Mike Green |
| Jakub Kindl | Alexey Marchenko |
Goaltenders
| Petr Mrazek |
| Jimmy Howard |
Scratches: Xavier Ouellet, Tomas Nosek
Injuries: Kyle Quincey, Johan Franzen, Teemu Pulkkinen, Drew Miller, Jonathan Ericsson
New Jersey's Expected Lineup
Forwards
| Mike Cammalleri | Adam Henrique | Lee Stempniak |
| Tuomu Ruutu | Travis Zajac | Kyle Palmieri |
| Jacob Josefson | Sergey Kalinin | Tyler Kennedy |
| Jiri Tlusty | Stephen Gionta | Jordin Tootoo |
Defensemen
| Andy Greene | Adam Larsson |
| John Moore | Damon Severson |
| Eric Gelinas | David Schlemko |
Goaltenders
| Cory Schneider |
| Keith Kinkaid |
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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.
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.