The Wings return to the ice tonight against the Boston Bruins from the TD Garden in Boston.
Tonight marks as an interesting game for the Wings who play their first game since being embarrassed on their home ice when they lost 4-1 to Nashville the other night. After that game head coach Mike Babcock was none to pleased with his team’s performance and went as far as calling them “awful” and further iterated that if his team was going to work during games they would work during practice.
Nonetheless here is tonight’s lineup according to Ansar Khan of Mlive.com…
Franzen-Zetterberg-Bertuzzi
Hudler-Datsyuk-Cleary
Draper-Helm-Eaves
Miller-Abdelkader-Holmstrom
Lidstrom-Kronwall
Ericsson-Rafalski
Kindl-Salei
Howard (starting)
MacDonald
Back-up Tuukka Rask is expected to start in goal for the Bruins, not Flint native Tim Thomas, who will start Sunday at Joe Louis Arena.
Here are Boston’s anticipated lines and defense pairings:
Milan Lucic-David Krejci-Nathan Horton
Brad Marchand-Patrice Bergeron-Mark Recchi
Blake Wheeler-Zach Hamill-Michael Ryder
Jordan Caron-Gregory Campbell-Shawn Thornton
Zdeno Chara-Steven Kampfer
Dennis Seidenberg-Johnny Boychuk
Andrew Ference-Adam McQuaid
Tuukka Rask (starting)
Tim Thomas
Source: Mlive.com