Wings game 50: Wings at Lightning

[Bosc]

Huge game. Wings are riding a 6-game winning streak. They have to lose sometime, but it would be great to see a win against one of the conference and league's best teams. Go Wings.

Jurco is back.

The Expected Lineups

Forwards

Gustav Nyquist Henrik Zetterberg Justin Abdelkader
Darren Helm Pavel Datsyuk Tomas Tatar
Stephen Weiss Riley Sheahan Luke Glendening
Drew Miller Joakim Andersson Tomas Jurco

Defensemen

Niklas Kronwall Jonathan Ericsson
Danny DeKeyser Kyle Quincey
Xavier Ouellet Brendan Smith

Goaltenders

Petr Mrazek (starting)
Thomas McCollum


Forwards

Valtteri Filppula
Steven Stamkos Ryan Callahan
Ondrej Palat
Tyler Johnson
Nikita Kucherov
Alex Killorn
Cedric Paquette
Jonathan Drouin
Brendan Morrow
Brian Boyle
Brett Connolly


Defensemen

Andrej Sustr
Victor Hedman
Mark Barberio
Anton Stralman
Jason Garrison
Nikita Nesterov


Goaltenders

Ben Bishop (starting)
Evgeni Nabokov



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[E.L.]

When in the heck are these two teams taking a few days off? The Habs still have a few games in hand and it's throwing the standings out of whack.

[Bosc]

Yeah that result is about right for this game.

[Bosc]

To elaborate a little, even though Detroit had been on a 6-game winning streak they had been having some bad stretches of hockey(Buffalo 1st period - 3 goals, Minnesota 3rd period - 3 goals to tie it, Florida - gave up 2 in 2nd and 3rd to make it 5-4 Det). These aren't the greatest teams. Mrazek's play had dropped a bit. They were primed to lose to an excellent Tampa team that produces a lot of offense but is also good in their own end.