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Hurricanes Blog: Canes Country
Carolina has been a bit of a nemesis for the Red Wings recently, especially in two games so far this season where they dominated play in both games, even if the Wings managed to steal a win in one of them. Detroit is now coming off a western Canada trip where they managed roughly 4 good periods across 3 games. That’s horrendous, but they somehow ended up with 3 points in those 3 games, so we just need to hope Detroit starts playing full games at some point. The results have been okay on the back of strong goaltending and timely goals, but the general flow of play needs to get much better quickly.
One big thing to watch out for here is the typical slow legs the first game back from a west coast road trip, which has resulted in more bad first periods than I care to remember. Detroit may need to weather an early storm (OR HURRICANE) to keep up.
The Expected Lineups
Forwards
| Justin Abdelkader | Henrik Zetterberg | Gustav Nyquist |
| Tomas Tatar | Dylan Larkin | Teemu Pulkkinen |
| Darren Helm | Riley Sheahan | Tomas Jurco |
| Drew Miller | Luke Glendening | Landon Ferraro |
Defensemen
| Niklas Kronwall | Jonathan Ericsson |
| Danny DeKeyser | Alexey Marchenko |
| Jakub Kindl | Brendan Smith |
Goaltenders
| Petr Mrazek |
| Jimmy Howard |
Notes: Jeff Blashill indicated Jurco would return to the lineup, but we won’t know until practice where he fits in. Andersson scratch is just a guess. Blashill also indicated he would reveal after practice who would be in goal.
Scratches: Joakim Andersson (maybe)
Injuries: Johan Franzen (Head), Pavel Datsyuk (Ankle), Brad Richards (Back), Mike Green (Shoulder), Kyle Quincey (Head)
Forwards
| Eric Staal | Victor Rask | Elias Lindholm |
| Nathan Gerbe | Jordan Staal | Brock McGinn |
| Jeff Skinner | Riley Nash | Kris Versteeg |
| Brad Malone | Jay McClement | Chris Terry |
Defensemen
| Ron Hainsey | Justin Faulk |
| John-Michael Liles | Bret Pesce |
| Noah Hanifin | Ryan Murphy |
Goaltenders
| Eddie Lack |
| Cam Ward |
| HURRICANES | THE MATCH-UP | RED WINGS |
| 2-6-0 (4 pts; 7th in Metro) | Record | 4-3-1 (9 pts; 4th in Atlantic) |
| 1.75 (28th in NHL) | Goals Per Game | 2.63 (17th in NHL) |
| 3.13 (25th) | Goals Against Per Game | 2.63 (16th) |
| 9.4% (27th) | Power Play % | 17.2% (18th) |
| 77.8% (21st) | Penalty Kill % | 76.7% (23rd) |
| Justin Faulk (3 goals) | Goal Leader | Abdelkader, Nyquist, Pulkkinen (4 goals) |
| Faulk, Versteeg (5 points) | Points Leader | Henrik Zetterberg (11 points) |
LET’S GO RED WINGS!!!
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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.
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