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Red Wings at Blue Jackets: GDU, Lineups, Keys to the Game

Game Day Updates

Not even a “gameday” update, but Dylan Larkin’s best bud switching agents before he goes into next season and then becomes a free agent is interesting to me at least.

This article will post before we know fully whether Smith will still be on the Taxi Squad at gametime, but I don’t know why they would have called him up otherwise so I’m penciling him into the lineup (on a line based on my best guess) and you can yell at me later when I’m wrong.

UPDATE

Go ahead and ignore the lines below. I have no clue who’s in and out.

Lineups

Detroit

Forwards
Jakub Vrana – Michael Rasmussen – Valtteri Filppula
Adam Erne – Vladislav Namestnikov – Filip Zadina
Givani Smith/ Evgeny Svechnikov – Joe Veleno – Sam Gagner/Mattias Brome
Darren Helm – Luke Glendening – Richard Panik

Defense
Dennis Cholowski – Filip Hronek
Marc Staal – Troy Stecher
Danny DeKeyser – Gustav Lindstrom

Goalies
Thomas Greiss
Jonathan Bernier

Columbus

Forwards
Oliver Bjorkstrand – Max Domi – Cam Atkinson
Mikhail Grigorenko – Jack Roslovic – Emil Bemstrom
Liam Foudy – Kevin Stenlund – Patrik Laine
Eric Robinson – Ryan MacInnis – Nathan Gerbe

Defense
Michael Del Zotto – Seth Jones
Vladislav Gavrikov – AndrewPeeke
Scott Harrington- Gavin Bayreuther

Goalies
Matiss Kivlenieks
Elvis Merzlikins

Keys to the Game

1. Try not to embarrass the sport

Seems pretty easy to not do, but this week has been a challenge all over hockey

2. Maybe just play without a goalie

I’m very torn because I always want to see the Wings play well, but I very much want them to lose the last two games of the season because I don’t think these last games are as important for development of a team missing so many pieces as it is for draft lottery positioning.

3. Nope, just two keys. That’s it

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