Updates:
You know him as Ken Daniels, play-by-play announcer for the @DetroitRedWings.
He now lends his voice to another cause through the @JDanielsFund.
Wingspan: For Jamie debuts this Friday at 6:30 pm on FOX Sports Detroit. pic.twitter.com/akXAQqnKf9
— FOX Sports Detroit (@FOXSportsDet) November 5, 2018
#RedWings Athanasiou skating in optional morning skate. pic.twitter.com/xYR0PiickD
— Dana Wakiji (@Dwakiji) November 6, 2018
Note: That doesn’t mean he’s playing tonight (he’s not), but it’s good to see him back on the ice.
#Canucks Green says Boeser will not play against #RedWings tonight.
— Dana Wakiji (@Dwakiji) November 6, 2018
No Boeser tonight is obviously good for Detroit. The lineup below for Vancouver is from Daily Faceoff after the Boeser news was disclosed.
Lineups:
Red Wings
Darren Helm – Dylan Larkin – Anthony Mantha
Michael Rasmussen – Frans Nielsen – Gustav Nyquist
Tyler Bertuzzi – Jacob de la Rose – Luke Glendening
Justin Abdelkader – Wade Megan – Martin Frk
Trevor Daley – Mike Green
Danny DeKeyser – Nick Jensen
Niklas Kronwall – Dennis Cholowski
Jimmy Howard
Jonathan Bernier
Canucks
Tim Schaller – Bo Horvat – Jake Virtanen
Nikolay Goldobin – Elias Pettersson – Brandon Leipsic
Antoine Rousel – Markus Granlund – Loui Eriksson
Tyler Motte- Adam Gaudette – Darren Archibald
Ben Hutton – Erik Gudbranson
Michael Del Zotto – Troy Stecher
Derrick Pouliot – Chris Tanev
Jacob Markstrom
Richard Bachman
Keys to the Game
Can the Larkins Keep Up with the Petterssons
This is going to be a reoccurring theme for the Red Wings a lot going forward. If they are going to find success is is going to start with Dylan Larkin’s line. He is the unofficial leader and arguably their best player. They need him to continue to be both while also trying to slow down one of the hottest stories in the early season in rookie sensation Elias Pettersson.
Scorers Scoring More
It probably sounds like an obvious statement, but the Red Wings really need the guys they expect to carry the goal scoring load for the team to do so. Technically speaking they somewhat are as Dylan Larkin, Andreas Athanasiou and Anthony Mantha are three of the four top goal scorers on the team. The problem is Larkin leads the bunch with six and Mantha, the one people expected to be the top goal scorer this season, has only three in 14 games. Mantha has looked better in recent games and they are going to need him to find a spicy meatball or two tonight.
Be Aggressive, B E Aggressive
Vancouver is not an overly physical team. The Red Wings have some players who are at their best when there is some physicality to their game. They also have some very good forecheckers (even without Athanasiou or Nielsen). They need to use that aggressiveness to force turnovers and then get to the front of the net for a few of those “greasy goals” good teams seem to find.
