Wings’ veteran defenseman Brian Rafalski will miss his fifth straight game tonight when the Wings take on the Phoenix Coyotes at 8:00PM ET. 
According to Ansar Khan of Mlive.com, Wings’ GM Ken Holland says that MRI’s done of Rafalski’s back showed no damage, he just needs to rest it.
Nonetheless the Wings take on a struggling Coyotes team that has lost five straight games.
Here are tonight’s anticipated lineups according to Khan…
Datsyuk-Zetterberg-Holmstrom
Hudler-Filppula-Franzen
Cleary-Modano-Bertuzzi
Miller-Helm-Abdelkader
Draper (scratched)
Lidstrom-Stuart
Ericsson-Kronwall
Kindl-Salei
Howard (starting)
MacDonald
Here are the Coyotes’ anticipated lines:
Ray Whitney-Eric Belanger-Shane Doan
Mikkel Boedker-Kyle Turris-Radim Vrbata
Taylor Pyatt-Vernon Fiddler-Lee Stempniak
Paul Bissonnette-Andrew Ebbett-Lauri Korpikoski
Keith Yandle-Derek Morris
Rostislav Klesla-Michal Rozsival
David Schlemko-Adrian Aucoin
Ilya Bryzgalov (starting)
Jason LaBarbera
Source: Mlive.com
