Updates
Detroit made a pair of roster moves today:
Additionally, the #RedWings placed goaltender Jimmy Howard on long-term injured reserve retroactive to Nov. 27 and assigned him to the Griffins for conditioning. pic.twitter.com/0IH8OQgb95
— Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) December 17, 2019
#CBJ have been informed by #NHL that David Savard will NOT face a one-game suspension nor will coach John Tortorella be fined $10K for Savard’s instigator penalty late in Monday’s win over Caps 3-0. Savard fought Washington’s Tom Wilson after Wilson’s hit on Vladislav Gavrikov.
— Aaron Portzline (@Aportzline) December 17, 2019
Elvis Merzlikins: Goalie Start: Merzlikins is expected to start Tuesday in Detroit. https://t.co/SDaD69gDbU
— Daily Faceoff (@DailyFaceoff) December 17, 2019
Lineups
Red Wings
Here is the Red Wings lineup based on Khan’s tweet from practice this morning.
Bertuzzi-Larkin-Fabbri
Mantha-Filppula-Zadina
Helm-Glendening-Athanasiou
Erne-Nielsen-Perlini
Abdelkader and Ehn appear to be extras.
Nemeth-Green
Daley-Hronek
Biega-Bowey
Blue Jackets
Gustav Nyquist – Boone Jenner – Oliver Bjorkstrand
Eric Robinson – Pierre-Luc DuBois – Alexandre Texier
Nick Foligno – Alexander Wennberg – Cam Atkinson
Marko Dano – Riley Nash – Kevin Stenlund
Zach Werenski – Seth Jones
Dean Kukan – Denis Savard
Vladislav Gavrikov – Scott Harrington
Elvis Merzlikins
Joonas Korpisalo
Keys to the Game
Plop-plop, fizz-fizz-
-time to embrace chaos, it is. If the Blashill Bingo Wheel of Doom is spinning up a storm tonight, we may just have to roll with it and hope the five guys who still have legs in the third period can carry the team alongside a big serving of lights out goaltending. Maybe some divine intervention. Whatever it takes.
1-2-3 Let’s have fun
Mantha said the guys need to have fun, which obviously in short supply this season, but I’ll take a close/fun loss over complete despair any day. I mean, we could also win, I’m not saying don’t try to win, but at least make it interesting and score a cool goal or three.
