Welcome to Big Leagues Gustav Nyquist!

[wings_fanatic 677]

I think it is a dumb decision by Babs to scratch Huds over Cleary. Cleary has been, by far, the worst Red Wing on the ice this season, but yet Huds gets scratched over him. I would have rather the lines been (with Hudler out)

Zetterberg- Datsyuk- Homer

Franzen- Fil- Nyquist

Bertuzzi- Helm- Cleary

Eaves- Abs- Miller

Franzen is not good at center, and besides that is not good at faceoffs. I don't think Bab's idea of the 2nd line will work very well.

[wings1110 184]

Wow, I don't think I've ever heard Babcock so high on a prospect before, and especially throwing him right into the second line AND special teams? I knew this kid had potential, but are they thinking he's going to be Datsyuk/Zetterberg potential?

YES! very slippery little guy he is.

[wings1110 184]

Wow I seriously didn't see the Hudler scratch coming at all. Haha.

hes outplaying other players. his numbers are better than Z's.

in fact i would have some of our top players sit just as a wakeup call to everyone, that their jobs arnt safe. hudler and Emmerton arnt the problem. and commie needs games

Edited November 1, 2011 by wings1110

[redwingfan19 293]

and back to GR for gus

[NvrFrgtRussian5 85]

back to GR....

[wings1110 184]

who are they gunna call up? some refs or something?

[hooon 1,089]

Lame that he's back to GR so soon, he barely got a chance to do anything, and with the little time he did have he made actually made a few decent plays.

Its not like anyone else is really competing for that spot right now.

[St. Michael (the Red Wing) 422]

Too bad indeed.

[RusDRW 155]

Good bye from the big league, Gustav! You would be definiitely playing if we weren't Red Wings.

[HockeytownRules19 902]

He'll be back... No Worries!

[ben_usmc 253]

makes sense, he was the only one who looked like an NHL on a line with Franzen/Bert so we can't have any of that on this team.

[Namingway 146]

According to mlive, Babs would rather have Gus called up when the Wings are actually playing well. I don't think it's a bad choice. It was a good try to change things up a bit but really, it should start by changing up the main team rather than calling up kids from the farm. Hopefully we see Nyquist have better opportunities once the Wings are out of this slump.

Edited November 2, 2011 by Namingway

[wings1110 184]

Lame that he's back to GR so soon, he barely got a chance to do anything, and with the little time he did have he made actually made a few decent plays.

Its not like anyone else is really competing for that spot right now.

they could send him down for tonights game in GR and call him back up for tomorrows game? or something idk.

[SiLkK19 67]

Dammit sit bertuzzi or cleary for nyquist

Edited November 2, 2011 by SiLkK19

[Detroit # 1 Fan 2,204]

Stupid. What does Drew Miller bring that keeps him in the line-up? We're having trouble scoring goals right? And taking stupid penalties? Oh wait, Drew Miller doesn't score goals and took a dumb penalty last night.

Hopefully he's back up soon and gets on a line with a real center and not Bertuzzi so he can get going.

[Aussie_Wing 354]

I can't believe they sent him back after 11 minutes TOI in one of the worst, most boring games ever. Pure madness has set over this team.

[RedBengals 27]

I think Babcock feels it's better for Nyquist to get time playing with the Griffins while they play good then the Wings while they play bad.

[hockey23 79]

Wings called him up again. I guess Zetterberg was late getting on the ice for practice today so maybe he's not playing tomorrow, or Nyquist is just taking Andersson's spot.

[under_par_00 45]

Wings called him up again. I guess Zetterberg was late getting on the ice for practice today so maybe he's not playing tomorrow, or Nyquist is just taking Andersson's spot.

Do you have any source for this information?

[Jenny 315]

Ansar Khan says Nyquist is actually up to replace Helm, who has a minor groin injury.

https://twitter.com/#!/AnsarKhanMLive/status/152493906846679041

[ChelisChick 174]

Was just coming in to post that Jenny. Thank you!

[hooon 1,089]

Grr, I don't like seeing Helm hurt! We could especially use that speed against Chicago tomorrow.

On the other hand, very much looking forward to seeing Gus get a shot again. What better time to have a huge impact game than tomorrow, right?

[jollymania 162]

Would like to see tatar at some point too.

[PrairieDawg 52]

I'm so confused, you guys are saying Nyquist is up to replace Helm or Zetterberg?

Just saw this on the Red Wings facebook page.

NEWS: The Red Wings have called up Gustav Nyquist from the Grand Rapids Griffins and placed Tomas Holmstrom on Injured Reserve.

[rrasco 1,312]

I'm so confused, you guys are saying Nyquist is up to replace Helm or Zetterberg?

Helm hurt his groin 'in practice today', but I actually think it was last game when he went into the boards spread eagle. I saw that and immediately thought his groin was hurt. He was skating gingerly after that. Then he had a decent scoring chance on the same shift and went to the bench. If anything, I bet he aggravated it today.

Holmstrom was placed on IR to make roster space for Gus, he already missed time due to his injury, but was still occupying a roster spot.

Edited December 29, 2011 by rrasco