GDT: Game #41 | Wings @ Sharks | 10:30 PM EST

[Frk It]

VS.

January 7th, 2016
10:30 p.m., FS-D

Place:

SAP Center
San Jose, CA

Tentative Lines:

Left Wing | Center | Right Wing
Gustav Nyquist|Henrik Zetterberg|Justin Abdelkader
Tomas Tatar|Pavel Datsyuk|Darren Helm
Dylan Larkin|Riley Sheahan|Brad Richards
Drew Miller|Luke Glendening|Tomas Jurco

Left Defense | Right Defense
Niklas Kronwall|Jonathan Ericsson
Danny Dekeyser|Alexey Marchenko
Brendan Smith|Mike Green

Starting Goaltender
Petr Mrazek

Left Wing | Center | Right Wing
Melker Karlsson|Joe Thornton|Joe Pavelski

Patrick Marleau|Logan Couture|Joel Ward

Matt Nieto|Tomas Hertl|Tommy wingels

Joonas Donskoi|Dainus Zubrus|Mike Brown

Left Defense | Right Defense
Marc-Edouard Vlasic|Justin Braun

Paul Martin|Brent Burns

Brenden Dillon|Dylan DeMelo

Starting Goaltender
Martin Jones

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[GoAwayDanCleary]

Glad to have Miller back, hopefully he can right the ship on the PK. Hope Blashill doesn't use the 4th line more just because he's back.

San Jose like always has a pretty impressive roster. Brent Burns is on pace for 30+ goals

Go Wings

 

[Frk It]

Glad to have Miller back, hopefully he can right the ship on the PK. Hope Blashill doesn't use the 4th line more just because he's back.

San Jose like always has a pretty impressive roster. Brent Burns is on pace for 30+ goals

Go Wings

Yeah, their roster looks good to me. Weird they aren't in a playoff spot.

Hope we can contain Lil Joe, he's one of my favorite non-Wings players, guy has been killing it this year.

 

[hyduK]

Hopefully the third line keeps clicking and the other ones get going a bit more.

We've been pretty good against the west, this and last year. Hoping for a good cali trip.

 

[Hammettf2b]

Ugggghh, I'm on the west coast and I hate late start games. Can't imaging having to watch a game that starts at 10:30 like most of you have to do.

Ayways, I'm looking for Nyquist to start turning it on here so hopefully we see something from him tonight. It also looks like Mrazek will get the majority of the starts from now on, but how much time do you think Blash will give him? 60/40? Maybe even more?

 

[hyduK]

Ugggghh, I'm on the west coast and I hate late start games. Can't imaging having to watch a game that starts at 10:30 like most of you have to do.

Ayways, I'm looking for Nyquist to start turning it on here so hopefully we see something from him tonight. It also looks like Mrazek will get the majority of the starts from now on, but how much time do you think Blash will give him? 60/40? Maybe even more?

Outside of injury and back to backs I think the starts are basically all his to have if he continues his play.

 

[Eggberto]

I feel like we never match up well against San Jose, but it might be the playoff memoroes that still haunt me. Either way Martin Jones is far from an elite goalie so we should be able to score a few.

 

[TheMule93]

we can never win in san jose =\

 

[odin1981]

So how many points is Pavelski gonna put up on us? I'm saying over under at 2.

 

[RedWingzz]

I hate playing in San Jose. Always seems to be a guaranteed loss. They've had our number in that building for like 10 years now. 4-2 Sharks.

 

[mindfly]

Arch nemesis sharks... automatic loss 3-1

 

[joe89]

For all the Sharks' struggles, they still put up a respectable lineup. Given that some of their veterans are not what they used to be, but that's the case for us aswell.

For us, I hope we win two of four on this west coast trip, perhaps with a loser point somewhere aswell.

 

[ap3x]

Ugggghh, I'm on the west coast and I hate late start games. Can't imaging having to watch a game that starts at 10:30 like most of you have to do.

4:30 AM is even better.

 

[Hammettf2b]

4:30 AM is even better.

 

[DaGoose]

An]ybody else remember this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29U...FLOEKAsk3Apf2QtU-InJ4lKQ&ab_channel=Puckguy14

 

[Ezekial]

Maybe we can kill some penalties tonight.

 

[Claypool]

I'm going to the game tonight. Hope to see some sweet Larkin plays.

 

[Heaton]

10:30PM ugggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggh

 

[Kyleftlx]

I wish I understood why San Jose is bad now. They always seem to play Detroit really well - I went to the game in Detroit earlier this year and San Jose looked as dangerous as ever to me. I understand that Thornton and Marleau aren't the same players they were 5 years ago, but SJ has a lot of other good players.

Hoping for a W! I'm sure it'll take a bit before Detroit starts skating, considering the long flight, etc. Hopefully they don't struggle so much.

 

[hyduK]

Ansar Khan ‏@AnsarKhanMLive 2m2 minutes ago
#RedWings lines at skate in San Jose:
Abdelkader-Zetterberg-Nyquist
Helm-Datsyuk-Tatar
Larkin-Sheahan-Richards
Miller-Glendening-Jurco

Ansar Khan ‏@AnsarKhanMLive 1m1 minute ago
Defense:
Kronwall-Ericsson
DeKeyser-Marchenko
Smith-Green

Ansar Khan ‏@AnsarKhanMLive 2m2 minutes ago
Looks like Andersson and Kindl are healthy scratches. Quincey close to being cleared. Pulkkinen skating but at least couple weeks away.

 

[mindfly]

Who goes out when Quincey is back? Ericsson? Smith?...Marchenko?

 

[hyduK]

Who goes out when Quincey is back? Ericsson? Smith?...Marchenko?

Based on play it should be Ericsson. But it won't be, which is unfortunate cause AM has earned his spot and Smith has been good lately.

If I had to choose between Smith and AM...I go with benching Smith. I'm thinking it ends up being AM back in GR though. Gotta protect those assets!!!

 

[Claypool]

Who goes out when Quincey is back? Ericsson? Smith?...Marchenko?

In the short term Marchenko likely gets sent down, assuming he doesn't have to pass through waivers.

 

[hyduK]

Sending AM down is like the ultimate Holland move in this situation since it basically fixes the cap and lets us keep all those mediocre assets.

 

[Claypool]

Sending AM down is like the ultimate Holland move in this situation since it basically fixes the cap and lets us keep all those mediocre assets.

Smith is playing well right now. Hard to sit him. Ericsson could be sat but he needs to be playing games. Maybe send him down to GR for conditioning?