Jimmy Howard looks to continue his success over the Columbus Blue Jackets when the Wings visit Nationwide Arena to take on the Columbus Blue Jackets Friday night.

According to Ansar Khan of Mlive.com defenseman Brian Rafalski did not skate this morning but will play. This is also the same for forward Justin Abdelkader who returned to practice after taking Thursday off for personal reasons.

Here is tonight’s anticipated lineup courtesy of Khan…

Franzen-Zetterberg-Holmstrom
Hudler-Filppula-Bertuzzi
Draper-Helm-Eaves
Miller-Abdelkader-Mursak

Lidstrom-Kronwall
Ericsson-Rafalski
Kindl-Salei

Here is the Blue Jackets’ anticipated lineup:

Rick Nash-Derick Brassard-Jakub Voracek
Kristian Huselius-Antoine Vermette-R.J. Umberger
Derek Dorsett-Samuel Pahlsson-Chris Clark
Matt Calvert-Kyle Wilson-Jared Boll

Jan Hejda-Marc Methot
Fedor Tyutin-Rostislav Klesla
Kris Russell-Grant Clitsome

Steve Mason (starting)
Mathieu Garon

Source: Mlive.com

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