Red Wings forward Todd Bertuzzi and defenseman Jonathan Ericsson are expected to be back in the lineup tonight when the Wings take on the Toronto Maple Leafs tonight from the Joe. Bertuzzi has been held out of action dealing with a sore back while Ericsson has been recovering from the flu.
With Bertuzzi expected back the Wings have reassigned forward Jan Mursak back to Grand Rapids of the AHL. Jakub Kindl will also take Ruslan Salei’s spot in the lineup tonight.
Pavel Datsyuk and Johan Franzen are going to be held out of the lineup tonight as Datsyuk continues to recover from a lower body injury and Franzen continues to recover from a groin injury.
Here is tonight’s anticipated lineup according to Ansar Khan of Mlive.com…
Cleary-Zetterberg-Bertuzzi
Modano-Filppula-Holmstrom
Hudler-Abdelkader-Miller
Draper-Helm-Eaves
Lidstrom-Stuart
Ericsson-Rafalski
Kindl-Kronwall
Howard (starting)
MacDonald
Here are Toronto’s anticipated lines:
Nikolai Kulemin-Mikhail Grabovski-Clarke MacArthur
Joffrey Lupul-Tyler Bozak-Phil Kessel
Darryl Boyce-Nazem Kadri-Joey Crabb
Fredrik Sjostrom-Tim Brent-Mike Brown
Keith Aulie-Dion Phaneuf
Carl Gunnarsson-Luke Schenn
Mike Komisarek-Brett Lebda
James Reimer (starting)
Jean-Sebastien Giguere
Source: Mlive.com
