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[Hockeytown0001]

Official Game Day Thread
- - Today's Matchup - -

VS.


Start time: 3:00 EST


Bridgestone Arena - Nashville, TN

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Official Game Preview:
Predators look to close gap on rival Red Wings

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*Opposition GDT*
Forthcoming
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News from around the NHL
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Canucks poised to make more history
Pronger out until playoffs

Western Conference Standings

RED WINGS
77 GP, 44-23-10, 98 pts
Last Game: Lost to STL 10-3

PREDATORS
76 GP, 42-26-10, 94 pts
Last Game: Defeated COL 3-2

Last DET-NSH Meeting:
3/19, DET 1 at NSH 3 Recap - LGW GDT

Highlights



Goals
DET Johan Franzen: 27
NSH Sergei Kostitsyn, Patric Hornqvist: 19

Assists
DET Henrik Zetterberg: 53
NSH Ryan Suter: 34

Plus/Minus
DET Pavel Datsyuk: +12
NSH Ryan Suter: +24
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DET Todd Bertuzzi: -8
NSH Mike Fisher: -21

PIM
DET Jonathan Ericsson: 81
NSH Shane O'Brien: 71


Cleary-Zetterberg-Bertuzzi
Franzen-Modano-Holmstrom
Hudler-Filppula-Abdelkader
Miller-Helm-Eaves

Lidstrom-Stuart
Ericsson-Kronwall
Kindl/Salei-Rafalski

Projected NSH Lines
Erat-Legwand-Ward
Kostitsyn-Fisher-Hornqvist
Wilson-Geoffrion-Halischuk
Spaling-Smithson-Tootoo

Suter-Weber
Blum-Klein
Franson-O'Brien




Jimmy Howard

Record:
34-15-5, 2.77 GAA, .908 SV%, 2 SO

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versus.
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Pekka Rinne

Record:
31-21-8, 2.10 GAA, .929V%, 6 SO



RED WINGS
Pavel Datsyuk (lower body) will not play, Chris Osgood (groin) out

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PREDATORS
Jordin Tootoo (undisclosed) questionable, Steve Sullivan (groin) out,
Marcel Goc (shoulder) out, Francis Bouillon (concussion) out,
Cal O'Reilly (leg) out, Matthew Lombardi (concussion) out



On Deck

4/3, Wild at Red Wings ; 5:00 EST

Edited by Hockeytown0001, 06 August 2011 - 06:49 AM.

[HankthaTank]

Play good. Thanks.

[Hockeytown0001]

Wings need this one.

[HockeytownRules19]

Shut all the LGW haters up! Go Wings Baby!

[Electrophile]

Does Nashville score 11 goals, or can we hold the opposition to less than double-digits? I'm hoping for the latter, not the former.

[MGreenberg]

Hope the Wings make me wrong when I went with Nashville in the Weekend picks.

[T.Low]

Hope the Wings make me wrong when I went with Nashville in the Weekend picks.

It won't be nearly as bad as the St Louis gmae.

Nashville 7, Detroit 2.

[Firehawk]

Love the posts so far LOL.

On a serious note, I think we are going to learn a lot about where our team is with this game. Expect Nashville to show up big for this one. They're one of the teams on fire, they're gunning for us, have had success against us this year, and are sniffing that they have a very good shot at ending up in 3rd place in the conference.

I think if we come out flat and get handled again, I think we're in for real trouble. If we come out hard and take it to them and play solid defense, then hopefully that game the other night will be the turning point for this team and we can get to the Wings Hockey we all know and have come to love.

[Jusek]

Early Game!

Rinne is always hard to beat...but gotta win this one. Just win!

[MulesWillFly93]

Pleeeaaase let's beat the Preds. I'll still feel bad about That Game even if we win this one (it takes me a while to recover from shock), but it'll at least be a bit of an extra boost to beat them.

[chrisdetroit]

If anybody thinks that we are going to come out flat and get our asses handed to us they haven't been watching the Red Wings for very long. This is a "bounce back" game. The Wings will give 100% effort on this one. The only thing that stands in their way is Rhinne. It may be a close game but I guarantee we will see maximum effort from the Wings.

The magic number is 2. Any combination of Wings wins and Preds losses means that the Preds can't win the division. A win tomorrow will wrap this up. If Chicago wins tonight against Columbus which is likely, the magic number for them is 2 1/2 (5 points).

It won't be nearly as bad as the St Louis gmae.

Nashville 7, Detroit 2.

So even though this is a "bounce back" game you are going to be pessimistic and predict another embarrassment? Ok then...

[HankthaTank]

Shut all the LGW haters up! Go Wings Baby!

AMEN!

[Hockeytown0001]

AMEN!

X2.

[cjm502]

If anybody thinks that we are going to come out flat and get our asses handed to us they haven't been watching the Red Wings for very long. This is a "bounce back" game. The Wings will give 100% effort on this one. The only thing that stands in their way is Rhinne. It may be a close game but I guarantee we will see maximum effort from the Wings.

The magic number is 2. Any combination of Wings wins and Preds losses means that the Preds can't win the division. A win tomorrow will wrap this up. If Chicago wins tonight against Columbus which is likely, the magic number for them is 2 1/2 (5 points).




So even though this is a "bounce back" game you are going to be pessimistic and predict another embarrassment? Ok then...

Chill out dude, im pretty sure it was a joke.

[Cloune]

Pavel Datsyuk (lower body) will not play

of course

[T.Low]

Chill out dude, im pretty sure it was a joke.

You are correct, Sir.

Of course I am still about the lose. And of course I want them to win, but I am a bit concerned. The team started off looking like Cup favorites at the beginning of the season. It seemed as if things happened too easily for them and they thought they'd better slow down and pace themselves for a long season. That coupled with the injuries and suddenly the've lost their Mojo and can't seem to get it back.

Let's hope. Maybe it's time for Darren Helm to stand upand give a speech in the locker room. if everyone played as hard and as intense as Helmer, we wouldn't be talking about this.

Go Wings

[stinky fish taco]

i'm thinking the preds take this one. they've pretty much manhandled the wings all season.

[Hockeymom1960]

I predict................awww forget it!

[woodrow40]

4-1 Wings.

Lidstrom, Zetterberg, Modano, Bert

Shane O'Brien ends up -3 and challenges Hudler to a fight.

[Tr!PoD#19]

They have to win this game. Have to. Or at least show up.. or something.