Game Day Updates
Morning skate getting started as the boys return to game action tonight at @LCArena_Detroit! #LGRW
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— Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) December 31, 2021
#RedWings power play units in practice:
1. Bertuzzi (net front), Fabbri (bumper), Larkin-Raymond (flanks), Seider (point).
2. Gagner (net front), Suter (bumper), Namestnikov-Zadina (flanks), Hronek (point). pic.twitter.com/KRRrRebv3g— Ansar Khan (@AnsarKhanMLive) December 30, 2021
Lineups
Detroit
Forwards
Tyler Bertuzzi – Dylan Larkin – Lucas Raymond
Vladislav Namestnikov – Pius Suter – Robby Fabbri
Adam Erne – Michael Rasmussen – Filip Zadina
Givani Smith – Joe Veleno – Sam Gagner
Defense
Danny DeKeyser – Moritz Seider
Jordan Oesterle – Filip Hronek
Marc Staal – Gustav Lindstrom
Goalies
Alex Nedeljkovi
Thomas Greiss
Washington
Forwards
Alex Ovechkin – Evgeny Kuznetsov – Tom Wilson
Conor Sheary – Nicklas Backstrom – Aliaksei Protas
Connor McMichael – Lars Eller – T.J. Oshie
Carl Hagelin – Nic Dowd – Garnet Hathaway
Defense
Dmitri Orlov – John Carlson
Michal Kempny – Trevor Van Riemsdyk
Alexander Alexeyev – Matt Irwin
Goalies
Ilya Samsonov
Vitek Vanecek
Keys to the Game
I mean… it’s really just “play hard, play well” here, right?  Sara recommended “have a lineup” as one of the keys. I like that.  In terms of what’s important about winning this game, I can’t really say there’s anything terribly important about that right now.  I want them to win; I believe they can, but there are no special keys here, really.  Washington’s power play has looked pretty pedestrian and I guess making sure that doesn’t come online will help.
Stopping Ovechkin is an easy thing to say but it’s hard to do in practice and definitely shouldn’t be a key if that means guys like Lars Eller are going to dunk on you all night because you’re busy spending all your focus on stopping one guy.
