9/30 Exhibition GDT: Toronto Maple Leafs at Red Wings

[Hockeytown0001 7,652]

Official Game Day Thread

- - Tonight's Matchup - -

VS.

Start time: 7:30 EST

Joe Louis Arena - Detroit, MI

Available On:

Tonight's Stream

Stream

Official Game Preview:

Original 6 Pre-Season matchup in Detroit

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*Opposition GDT*

Forthcoming

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News from around the NHL

Ovi, Kovi lead bounce back candidates

Iginla back on the ice for the Flames

Kings, Doughty reach agreement

*Pre-Season*

MAPLE LEAFS

3-3-0

Last Game: Defeated OTT 5-3

*Pre-Season*

RED WINGS

2-3-0

Last Game: Lost to CHI 4-3

Valtteri Filppula-Henrik Zetterberg-Johan Franzen

Justin Abdelkader-Darren Helm-Todd Bertuzzi

Gustav Nyquist-Cory Emmerton-Tomas Holmstrom

Chris Conner-Joakim Andersson-Landon Ferraro

Nicklas Lidstrom-Ian White

Niklas Kronwall-Doug Janik

Brian Lashoff-Garnet Exelby

Projected TOR Lines

Clarke MacArthur - Mikhail Grabovski - Nikoali Kulemin

Joffery Lupul - Philippe Dupuis - Phil Kessel

Matt Frattin - Darryl Boyce - Colby Armstrong

Mike Brown - Mike Zigomanis - Colton Orr

John Michael Liles - Dion Phaneuf

Keith Aulie - Luke Schenn

Jake Gardiner - Mike Komisarek

Jonas Gustavsson

versus.

Jimmy Howard

Record:

0-2-0

Next Game - October 1

VS.

7:00 EST - Air Canada Center

Edited September 30, 2011 by Hockeytown0001

[hillbillywingsfan 792]

Love old picks like these

Just wish i was old enough to have been able to watch back then.

[RedBengals 27]

Excited for this one. This'll be the first game I can watch live of the preseason. So glad hockey's back.

Also, could be wrong on this: Emmerton got a spot on the line up over Brunnstorm? I'm a bit late to the party on this one, but I know Brunnstorm has tons of hype right now. Is it he already played and Emmerton is getting a chance to show off now? Never really followed the behind the scenes stuff (so to speak) before.

Edited September 30, 2011 by RedBengals

[Doc Holliday 1,888]

Who in the hell negs the OP of a GDT?

[RedBengals 27]

Who in the hell negs the OP of a GDT?

Somebody is negging everyone apparently from what I've heard today.

I'm so excited for the season to start, I sense good things. Detroit's sports are on the up and I believe the Wings are gonna ride the wave right with them. Hopefully tommorow we can stay injury free and try and get the lines all sorted out for the beginning of the season. Nice, clean, safe hockey.

[skyphoenix 153]

Excited for this one. This'll be the first game I can watch live of the preseason. So glad hockey's back.

Also, could be wrong on this: Emmerton got a spot on the line up over Brunnstorm? I'm a bit late to the party on this one, but I know Brunnstorm has tons of hype right now. Is it he already played and Emmerton is getting a chance to show off now? Never really followed the behind the scenes stuff (so to speak) before.

Babcock was going to play Brunnstrom with Datsyuk but Dats is out with a sore back so he's keeping Brunnstrom out too, they'll probably play together in the next game.

[RedBengals 27]

Babcock was going to play Brunnstrom with Datsyuk but Dats is out with a sore back so he's keeping Brunnstrom out too, they'll probably play together in the next game.

Awesome, I really wanna see what all the hype's about. That makes sense too, they know where they want him (Which is a good sign) so they should keep him there. I'll say 5-3 Wings.

[CanadaBoy 151]

Babcock was going to play Brunnstrom with Datsyuk but Dats is out with a sore back so he's keeping Brunnstrom out too, they'll probably play together in the next game.

I hope so. I'll be at the game on Saturday.

[Crashnburnluder 385]

Yea, someone has had their panties in a bunch and negging everyone....

... Waits for neg...

[MacK_Attack 108]

Jonas Gustavsson starting for the Leafs.

[sleepwalker 512]

Yay for FSD!!!

Now I can actually watch the game in HD instead of having it blacked out by those dips***s at versus.

[MacK_Attack 108]

These appear to be the lines the Leafs are going with:

Clarke MacArthur - Mikhail Grabovski - Nikoali Kulemin

Joffery Lupul - Philippe Dupuis - Phil Kessel

Matt Frattin - Darryl Boyce - Colby Armstrong

Mike Brown - Mike Zigomanis - Colton Orr

Keith Aulie - Luke Schenn

Carl Gunnarsson - Cody Franson

Jake Gardiner - Mike Komisarek

Jonas Gustavsson (starting)

Ben Scrivens

Scratched:

John Michael Liles

Dion Phaneuf

Jay Rosehill

Joey Crabb

Matt Lashoff

James Reimer

Injured:

Matt Lombardi

Tyler Bozak

Tim Connolly

Nazem Kadri

Edited September 30, 2011 by MacK_Attack

[MacK_Attack 108]

One minor change, Liles/Phaneuf pairing will sit, Gunnarsson and Franson will play.

[Rick 42]

Hoping to see a Zetterberg hat trick

new zetter plush doll coming out

[kylee 727]

Babcock was going to play Brunnstrom with Datsyuk but Dats is out with a sore back so he's keeping Brunnstrom out too, they'll probably play together in the next game.

now that'd be an interesting combination during the regular season.

[Din758 371]

First one of the season for me (attending that is). I usually try to avoid maple leaf games cuz of all the drunk leafs fans looking for fights. Usually I'd be down to go, but now that I save a 3 week old son I have to be good.

[MacK_Attack 108]

Holland was just on TSN Radio again, seemed to indicate that Datsyuk won't play tomorrow, either.

[Guest CaliWingsNut]

Khan on MLive is reporting that Stuart has recovered from his groin issues, and will be in the lineup tonight.

[frwtv 223]

I plan on streaming the game tonight at http://freeredwings.tv. FSD feed, Veemi stream, 1000kbit/s bitrate.

[55fan 5,133]

First one of the season for me (attending that is). I usually try to avoid maple leaf games cuz of all the drunk leafs fans looking for fights. Usually I'd be down to go, but now that I save a 3 week old son I have to be good.

Congratulations on the baby.

Don't worry about the negs, folks. There's a limit.

Mike- Do you happen to know what year the old-time pic was from? It got me all nostalgic.

Oh yes, almost forgot...

Go WINgs!

[DatsyukianDekes 2,428]

I plan on streaming the game tonight at http://freeredwings.tv. FSD feed, Veemi stream, 1000kbit/s bitrate.

Thanks. Game is only on LeafsTV here in Ontario for some reason so gonna have to use this tonight.

[P. Marlowe 748]

Who gave Mickey electricity?

[Guest Shoreline]

Thanks. Game is only on LeafsTV here in Ontario for some reason so gonna have to use this tonight.

Don't like Bowen?

[Carman 387]

Nice scoring chance by Ferraro, anyone see what happened to Nyquist? Said he went off with an injury=(

False alarm, Nyquist is back out. Thank God.

Edited September 30, 2011 by Carman

[Red Wings Addict 787]

Haha... f*** Dan O'Halloran....