Morning Skate: Red Wings at Bruins
7p ET, TD Garden
Boston, MA
TV: Fox Sports Detroit, NESN, NBCSN
Radio: 97.1 The Ticket
B's Blog: Stanley Cup of Chowder
Win and you're in.
It's that simple.
Win and you clinch a playoff berth for a 25th consecutive season.
This is going to be the toughest game of the season. The Red Wings are going to be facing a Bruins team that is completely desperate and is going to put everything on the line. If Boston loses, they're not officially eliminated, but their playoff hopes will almost be completely crushed. Thankfully, the Wings may have played their best game of the season last night. They'll need to duplicate that effort tonight.
Win and you're in.
Here's how things stand:
Red Wings - 93 points/39 ROW/80 GP, @BOS
Flyers- 91 points/36 ROW/79 GP, vs TOR
Bruins- 91 points/37 ROW/80 GP, vs DET
Detroit Expected Lineup
Forwards
| Justin Abdelkader | Henrik Zetterberg | Dylan Larkin |
| Darren Helm | Pavel Datsyuk | Brad Richards |
| Gus Nyquist | Riley Sheahan | Tomas Tatar |
| Andreas Athanasiou | Luke Glendening | Tomas Jurco |
Defensemen
| Danny DeKeyser | Kyle Quincey |
| Niklas Kronwall | Alexey Marchenko |
| Jonathan Ericsson | Mike Green |
Goaltenders
| Jimmy Howard |
| Petr Mrazek |
Scratches: Teemu Pulkkinen, Anthony Mantha, Brendan Smith
Injuries: Drew Miller, Johan Franzen
Bruins Expected Lineup
Forwards
| Brad Marchand | Patrice Bergeron | Lee Stempniak |
| Ryan Spooner | David Krejci | Loui Eriksson |
| Matt Beleskey | Max Talbot | David Pastrnak |
| Frank Vatrano | Noah Acciari | Landon Ferraro |
Defensemen
| Zdeno Chara | Kevan Miller |
| John-Michael Liles | Colin Miller |
| Torey Krug | Adam McQuaid |
Goaltenders
| Tuukka Rask |
| Jonas Gustavsson |
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Game Day Prediction Contest
Would you like to predict the outcome of the game and potentially become internet famous? Well you're in luck, because here's your opportunity. Here's how it works.
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.