cjm502 165 Report post Posted September 30, 2010 Mlive DETROIT -- Here is the Detroit Red Wings lineup -- line combinations, defense pairings and goaltenders -- for Friday's preseason game against the Toronto Maple Leafs at Joe Louis Arena (7 p.m., Fox Sports Net Detroit):Pavel Datsyuk-Henrik Zetterberg-Tomas Holmstrom Johan Franzen-Valtteri Filppula-Todd Bertuzzi Jiri Hudler-Mike Modano-Dan Cleary Kirk Maltby or Mattias Ritola-Cory Emmerton-Jan Mursak Nicklas Lidstrom-Jakub Kindl Brad Stuart-Brian Rafalski Brian Lashoff-Niklas Kronwall Joey MacDonald Thomas McCollum Coach Mike Babcock originally planned on playing Chris Osgood in goal but said he'll split MacDonald and McCollum, who'll be playing for the Grand Rapids Griffins. Jimmy Howard will play Saturday in Toronto and Osgood will play in the preseason finale Sunday at home against Pittsburgh. This is the best lineup the Red Wings have used thus far in the preseason, featuring their top three lines. Kindl, who Babcock has liked thus far in the preseason, will get a chance to play with Lidstrom, whose regular partner, Kronwall, is playing with Lashoff. -- The Red Wings assigned five more players to Grand Rapids Thursday: forwards Tomas Tatar, Francis Pare, Brent Raedeke and Jamie Johnson and goalie Jordan Pearce. Detroit has 35 players on its training camp roster. I like! Kindl with Lids, and Lashoff is in. Babs, thanks for reading my mind! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stevkrause 1,247 Report post Posted September 30, 2010 I likes, I likes Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hooon 1,089 Report post Posted September 30, 2010 I hope its Ritola instead of Maltby. Otherwise, it'll be nice to finally see what some of these lines can do together in a somewhat normal rotation. I have really high hopes for all three of those top lines. Good to see Kindl get some real minutes too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest mindfly Report post Posted September 30, 2010 Eaves starting to become a really injury prone player for the wings :/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SuperCalaFilppulastic! 34 Report post Posted September 30, 2010 Yes! I'm going to the game... I was hoping it would be a decent lineup! YAHOO! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jusek 437 Report post Posted September 30, 2010 Nice lineup. Hopefully there is a good stream where I can watch the game. I need some Red Wings hockey! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
brett 1,029 Report post Posted September 30, 2010 very interested in seeing kindl with lids. nice lineup im hoping to see some nice production other then the first line 1 F2B&G reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lookalive07 251 Report post Posted September 30, 2010 Here's to hoping they follow suit on Sunday so we can give the Penguins the beating they gave us last week... 1 F2B&G reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shoe 165 Report post Posted September 30, 2010 When I read the title I was like yes Im sick of loosing to the leafs in preseason dosnt matter if its preseason or not the leaf fans around here seem to think if they beat detroit they will win something special, all i got for you is a round of golf with an early tee time. BUT THEN.... The goaltenders????????? ack! why why why. Better win dammit I wanna put flags up on my car on Saturday Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zeke 5 Report post Posted October 1, 2010 That's great for Friday night,but it sucks for me on Saturday night when I'll be in Toronto to watch the Leafs play the Griffins. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RedOrDead 5 Report post Posted October 1, 2010 Awesome my tix came in the mail today Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HockeyTownHouligan 57 Report post Posted October 1, 2010 http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/familyguy/images/d/d5/Bug.jpg&imgrefurl=http://screwattack.com/blogs/Reiems-Blog/On-viral-videos-and-blogs&usg=__Gi7435da2XSGWesUw-zFEAW8FEc=&h=270&w=360&sz=13&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=LEynersuat9bxM:&tbnh=153&tbnw=200&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dyes%2Byes%2Bbug%2Bfamily%2Bguy%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D616%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=141&vpy=87&dur=5021&hovh=194&hovw=259&tx=53&ty=221&ei=x0ulTNuXFcG88gaqjvX7AQ&oei=x0ulTNuXFcG88gaqjvX7AQ&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0 GOOD GOOD! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Booster313 138 Report post Posted October 1, 2010 When I read the title I was like yes Im sick of loosing to the leafs in preseason dosnt matter if its preseason or not the leaf fans around here seem to think if they beat detroit they will win something special, all i got for you is a round of golf with an early tee time. BUT THEN.... The goaltenders????????? ack! why why why. Better win dammit I wanna put flags up on my car on Saturday Are you ashamed of your team if they lose? Why not put the flags on your car either way. 3 lookalive07, Frozen-Man and F.Michael reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MannyK 16 Report post Posted October 1, 2010 When I read the title I was like yes Im sick of loosing to the leafs in preseason dosnt matter if its preseason or not the leaf fans around here seem to think if they beat detroit they will win something special, all i got for you is a round of golf with an early tee time. BUT THEN.... The goaltenders????????? ack! why why why. Better win dammit I wanna put flags up on my car on Saturday haha nice avatar picture! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Heroes of Hockeytown 694 Report post Posted October 1, 2010 Looks like both of them will be icing most of their A-teams, except for goalies. Should be a good test. Unfortunately the 2nd and 3rd lines haven't had a lot of time to play together, but there's still plenty of talent there. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Din758 371 Report post Posted October 1, 2010 should we expect the starters to play on sunday as well? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Travis 576 Report post Posted October 1, 2010 Of course I can't watch it. Damn! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GMRwings1983 8,794 Report post Posted October 1, 2010 So this means we should kill the Leafs, right? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Stolberg Report post Posted October 1, 2010 So this means we should kill the Leafs, right? we always seem to lose when playing the leafs Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MannyK 16 Report post Posted October 1, 2010 we always seem to lose when playing the leafs this a very said fact of life =/ good thing we haven't played the Leafs in a game that's meant anything to either team (well, maybe it has to the Loafs), since the early 90s playoffs... but that's when I was fortunately too young to understand what was happening in the world of hockey! all I have is YouTube and Wikipedia to experience the shock, shame, and sadness of a playoff loss to TML Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
