Morning Skate: Lightning at Red Wings - Game 4
7p ET, Joe Louis Arena
Detroit, MI
TV: Fox Sports Detroit, NBCSN, CBC, TVAS2
Radio: 97.1 The Ticket
Bolts Blog: Raw Charge
It's another must win for the Red Wings... kind of. It's not necessarily do or die, but 2-2 sounds a whole hell of a lot better than 3-1. The Wings played arguably their most complete game of the season on Sunday night. I've made it clear in the past that hope is not a strategy, but holy hell I hope the Wings come out tonight and play the exact same way.
I want to believe that the Red Wings got their swagger back in Game 3. They found the right combination of lines. The right combination on the blue line. The right game plan for success. I need to see the one thing this team has lacked all year. I need to see some consistency. They did it one game. Now do it for another. And then a third. And a fourth.
Revenge against the Lightning is far from complete. It's only just begun.
Detroit's Expected Lineup
Forwards
| Gustav Nyquist | Henrik Zetterberg | Dylan Larkin |
| Darren Helm | Pavel Datsyuk | Brad Richards |
| Justin Abdelkader | Luke Glendening | Riley Sheahan |
| Andreas Athanasiou | Joakim Andersson | Tomas Tatar |
Defensemen
| Danny DeKeyser | Alexey Marchenko |
| Brendan Smith | Mike Green |
| Niklas Kronwall | Jonathan Ericsson |
Goaltenders
| Petr Mrazek (starting) |
| Jimmy Howard |
Scratches: Teemu Pulkkinen, Tomas Jurco, Kyle Quincey
Injuries: Drew Miller, Johan Franzen
Tampa's Expected Lineup
Forwards
| Alex Killorn | Tyler Johnson | Nikita Kucherov |
| Ondrej Palat | Valtteri Filppula | Jonathan Drouin |
| Cedric Paquette | Vladislav Namestnikov | Ryan Callahan |
| Mike Blunden | Brian Boyle | Erik Condra |
Defensemen
| Victor Hedman | Matt Carle |
| Jason Garrison | Andrej Sustr |
| Braydon Coburn | Nikita Nesterov |
Goaltenders
| Ben Bishop (starting) |
| Andrei Vasilevskiy |
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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.