Ansar Khan of Mlive.com has written that Wings forward Tomas Holmstrom skated this morning by himself before the teams full practice.
According to Khan, Holmstrom hasn’t ruled out returning February 2nd against Ottawa, which is the teams first game back after the All Star Break, but said it will probably be a few days after that.
“Who knows, maybe I can (play Feb. 2). It’s just how I can handle the pain,” Holmstrom said. “Hoping a week can make it good. Hold onto the stick and manage the pain. It takes three weeks to heal the bone. So hopefully around that time.”
“Maybe I can just cut the stick up and hold it with two fingers because I got such good hands, it’s not going to bother me,” he said.
Here is tonight’s lineup when the Wings take on the Devils at 7:30PM ET.
Franzen-Zetterberg-Eaves
Hudler-Filppula-Bertuzzi
Draper-Helm-Miller
Emmerton-Abdelkader-Mursak
Lidstrom-Kronwall
Ericsson-Rafalski
Kindl-Salei
Howard (starting)
MacDonald
Here is the Devils’ anticipated lineup:
Ilya Kovalchuk-Travis Zajac-Mattias Tedenby
Brian Rolston-Patrik Elias-Dainius Zubrus
Alexander Vasyunov-Jason Arnott-Adam Mair.
Rod Pelley-Tim Sestito-David Clarkson.
Andy Greene-Anssi Salmela
Henrik Tallinder-Mark Fayne
Mark Fraser-Anton Volchenkov
Martin Brodeur (starting)
Johan Hedberg
Source: Mlive.com
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