GDT: 9/16 - Detroit @ Pittsburgh - 7:00 PM

[Wingsfan2965*]

Pittsburgh Penguins
14 Chris Kunitz — 87 Sidney Crosby — 9 Pascal Dupuis
36 Jussi Jokinen — 16 Brandon Sutter — 23 Chris Conner
39 Harry Zolnierczyk — 59 Jason Megna — 48 Dominik Uher
49 Brian Gibbons — 40 Nick Drazenovic — 27 Craig Adams

7 Paul Martin — 44 Brooks Orpik
47 Simon Despres — 58 Kris Letang
3 Olli Maatta — 5 Deryk Engelland

92 Tomas Vokoun
31 Eric Hartzell

Detroit Red Wings
40 Henrik Zetterberg — 13 Pavel Datsyuk — 8 Justin Abdelkader
11 Danny Cleary — 18 Joakim Andersson — 37 Mikael Samuelsson
21 Tomas Tatar — 41 Luke Glendening — 29 Landon Ferraro
39 Anthony Mantha — 70 Calle Jarnkrok — 22 Jordin Tootoo

65 Danny DeKeyser — 4 Jakub Kindl
27 Kyle Quincey — 2 Brendan Smith
51 Brennan Evans — 53 Adam Almqvist

35 Jimmy Howard
34 Petr Mrazek

https://twitter.com/AnsarKhanMLive/status/379289562352087040/photo/1

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[Vladdy84]

Datsyuk - Zetterberg - Abdelkader
Andersson - Samuelsson - Cleary
Glendening - Tatar - Ferraro
Jarnkrok - Mantha - Tootoo

Kindl - DeKeyser
Quincey - Smith
Almqvist - Evans

Howard/Mrazek

https://twitter.com/AnsarKhanMLive/status/379289562352087040/photo/1

Worst line I've ever seen.

 

[Unfriendly Ghost]

Cleary-Andersson-Samuelsson is just a dumb, dumb line.

edit: great minds post alike?

 

[Eastopia]

Worst line I've ever seen.

Maybe, but the realgud factor is through the roof!

 

[RedWingsNow*]

Why the **** is hands of stone Glendening playing with Tatar? A center who can't pass with a guy who loves to shoot.

Babcock's idiocy reigns supreme.

Cleary-Andersson-Sammy --- puke.

 

[Vladdy84]

Joker and the Corpses!

 

[kuick]

Why the **** is hands of stone Glendening playing with Tatar? A center who can't pass with a guy who loves to shoot.

Babcock's idiocy reigns supreme.

Cleary-Andersson-Sammy --- puke.

Our two best players and our two most promising offensive prospects have a lot in common. They're both playing with 4th liners. (Abby, Tootoo)

Thank god it's only preseason. Maybe he's just trying to get the ridiculous line matching out of the way now.

 

[source]

Guys, it's pre-season. You should want the coach to be creative.

 

[silkyjohnson50]

Guys, it's pre-season. You should want the coach to be creative.

Which is exactly why we're not happy. He's not being creative. He's being typical Babcock.

 

[source]

Which is exactly why we're not happy. He's not being creative. He's being typical Babcock.

Well, I like that DeKeyser is being given the opportunity to play on the top-pairing tonight, ahead of Quincey and Smith.

 

[RedWinger10]

Andersson - Sammy - Cleary
Pppppfffffffff

Poor Andersson!!!

 

[jaster]

These lines are perfectly fine. For young and new players, you mix it up like this and you get to see these guys from different angles. Angles that you wouldn't normally see. You can see how they adapt to different situations, different paces, and different style linemates. This is how you get a full picture of a player. That's the point of preseason. These aren't regular season games that earn points, and they aren't practices that get you ready for those regular season games. These games are auditions.

 

[mindfly]

Why are wingers listed as centers?

 

[Bench]

Why are wingers listed as centers?

Just a list of players, not positions. Note there is a proper center on each line.

 

[KJoe88]

I hope Jarnkrok and Mantha play on Thursday when FSD airs the game against Boston. I want to see them play.

Lines aren't that bad. Cleary at second is whatever.

 

[Bench]

I hope Jarnkrok and Mantha play on Thursday when FSD airs the game against Boston. I want to see them play.

Me too. It's too early to call, but I really expect Mantha to at least be a serviceable 2nd line scorer in a few years. He's got the size and drive to put the puck in the net. Long as he adapts to the faster NHL game, he should be prospect we haven't seen in Detroit for some time.

 

[Flowah]

Datsyuk - Zetterberg - Abdelkader
Andersson - Samuelsson - Cleary
Glendening - Tatar - Ferraro
Jarnkrok - Mantha - Tootoo

Kindl - DeKeyser
Quincey - Smith
Almqvist - Evans

Howard/Mrazek

https://twitter.com/AnsarKhanMLive/status/379289562352087040/photo/1

Huh...

I wonder what happened in the off-season to move Kindl/DD ahead of Q/Smith.

And yeah, to chime in. That second line is hilarious. Can't wait to see them play!

 

[Henkka]

Why are wingers listed as centers?

Clearly centers are listed first, then wingers in random order.

We all know that it will be:

Zetts - Dats - AKader
Cleary - Andy - Sammy
Tatar - Glendy - Ferraro
Mantha - Järnkrok - Tootoo

 

[odin1981]

I feel for andersson for that game. Will be most excited to see 3rd and 4th lines though.

From what I gather from the practice reports of camp quincy and smith have (once again) not been a good consistent pairing (oh well hopefully next year we get emelin or giradi to pair with smith pretty please).

So it doesn't suprise me that kindl-dekeyser have jumped them.

 

[KJoe88]

Me too. It's too early to call, but I really expect Mantha to at least be a serviceable 2nd line scorer in a few years. He's got the size and drive to put the puck in the net. Long as he adapts to the faster NHL game, he should be prospect we haven't seen in Detroit for some time.

From what we understand he has attitude and ethic issues. I don't know how severe or crucial they are, but based on clips on youtube of him from games with Val'dor, he honestly could turn into a Rick Nash type player. I believe he can turn into that 40 goal scorer we so somewhat desperately need.

I'm excited about him and would LOVE to see him play in Boston.

I also want to see if Calle can be that potential top six center.

 

[Laser Rayzor]

The scary thing about the Cleary-Andy-Sammy line is that if Helm is out long term there is a good chance that it (or a very similar one) will be the 3rd line to start....puke.

 

[Kronwalled55]

Well... Looks like I'll be watching for Jarnkrok and Mantha playing together. The rest is simply garbage from Babcock.

 

[SoupNazi]

I am excited to see Jarnkrok play.

 

[joe89]

Glendening, Tatar and Ferraro together doesn't look half bad IMO. They will be tenacious as hell and swarming the net, probably drawing a couple of PP's.

Also interested to see how Almqvist fares.

 

[newfy]

Glendening, Tatar and Ferraro together doesn't look half bad IMO. They will be tenacious as hell and swarming the net, probably drawing a couple of PP's.

Also interested to see how Almqvist fares.

Yep and all three of them are fairly close to the NHL. Tatar will make it this year but the other 2 could get some call ups