GDT: Wings @ Hawks, preseason Gm 2, 8:30

[Ghost of Ethan Hunt]

Ansar Khan (@AnsarKhanMLive) | Twitter

Ansar Khan‏Verified account @AnsarKhanMLive 3m minutes ago
Larkin, Athanasiou and Bertuzzi haven’t skated the past few days due to what Blashill said are minor injuries. He said they might be available this weekend. #RedWings​

RedWings morning skate before tonight’s preseason game at @NHLBlackhawks (8:30, NHL Network joined in progress).

Lines:
Helm-Nielsen-Mantha
Smith-Filppula-Zadina
Erne-Veleno-Kuffner
Loggins-MacLeod-Kestner
That 4th line might be filling in for a line that played last night.

Defense Pairs:
Ericsson-Green
Daley-Seider
DeKeyser-Saarijarvi
Lashoff-Lindstrom

Edit: Bernier has joined the team on the ice so it appears he’s starting tonight and perhaps Larsson will enter midway through the game. #RedWings

Chicago Blackhawks Retweeted
Carter Baum‏ @CarterBaum 4m minutes ago
#Blackhawks morning skate lines at the UC:
Nylander - Toews - Kane
D. Sikura - Highmore - Saarela
Saad - Kampf - Kubalik
Hakkarainen - T. Sikura - Hagel

Keith - Boqvist
Maatta - Seabrook
Gilbert - Holm

Crawford
Gravel

Click to read more...

 

[smtevo]

Now that’s a lineup lets go

 

[Flowah]

Larkin, AA, Bert starting the year with minor injuries? I don't remember us holding back our better players in preseason for that in the past. Should we be worried that we're already starting the year with our top guys hurt?

 

[MBH]

Zadina with Flip now.
On the off chance Seider made the NHL, I'd think Daley, if healthy enough to skate, woud be a good choice for a partner this year.

 

[Konnan511]

Larkin, AA, Bert starting the year with minor injuries? I don't remember us holding back our better players in preseason for that in the past. Should we be worried that we're already starting the year with our top guys hurt?

From what Howard said, this was the training camp they had was the toughest first day of training camp he's ever had. Seems like maybe those three weren't the most prepared when they got there and got a little injured. That's obviously just speculation, but it's weird they all three were the only ones injured after the first day of training cmap.

 

[Pavels Dog]

Larkin, AA, Bert starting the year with minor injuries? I don't remember us holding back our better players in preseason for that in the past. Should we be worried that we're already starting the year with our top guys hurt?

Seems like standard procedure, even if they're just feeling something very minor there's absolutely no reason for them to play what's essentially glorified practices unless they're 100%. If they can get 2 or 3 pre-season games that's plenty.

 

[MBH]

Larkin, AA, Bert starting the year with minor injuries? I don't remember us holding back our better players in preseason for that in the past. Should we be worried that we're already starting the year with our top guys hurt?

Blash is going to overwork Larkin.
Take the rest while you can get it.

Zetterberg ranked 8th and 21st in TOI his last two years in the league, among NHL forwards.
Larkin was 17th last year.

Since 07-08, only Pavel Datsyuk in 07-08 played more minutes than Larkin did last year.

Z's 16-17 minutes were within 50 of his career high - crazy at his age.

So Blashill likes to ride his top gun.

 

[lilidk]

Kuffner with 2 goals

 

[waltdetroit]

love the 2nd & 3rd lines

 

[lhsgolf19]

 

[lhsgolf19]

Chicago loading up

 

[Ghost of Ethan Hunt]

make up your mind Blash...

Ansar Khan‏Verified account @AnsarKhanMLive 6m minutes ago

Scrap these lines. Blashill said he’s going with a mix of these players and some that played last night and didn’t skate this morning. Veleno, Zadina and Seider are playing. Mantha and Helm are not. Kaski and Abdelkader also on list of players with minor injuries.

 

[Christien]

Jesus Christ are these guys really banged up already? AA, Larkin, Kaski, Abdelkader... Seriously?

 

[Henkka]

Jesus Christ are these guys really banged up already? AA, Larkin, Kaski, Abdelkader... Seriously?

Ehh.. from 50-man group there will be every kind of things at this point of the season.

It's just social media asking all the info and giving those details. 10 years ago nobody knew why somebody was off, but people were off.

 

[Roomba With a Bauer]

Preseason and early season injuries are part of getting into game-shape. I bet, if anyone did the research, that the majority of minor groin injuries happen in the first month of the season.

 

[Ezekial]

The hawks announcers said we play 9 preseason games and some teams play 6, relax.

 

[Retire91]

hopefully that new director of human performance has them whipped into shape

 

[Unfriendly Ghost]

Welcome to the NHL, Moritz Seider. Meet Patrick Kane.

 

[Dotter]

Televised?

 

[Cyborg Yzerberg]

Welcome to the NHL, Moritz Seider. Meet Patrick Kane.

Seider is going to introduce Kane to Seidertown.

 

[Maverick41]

Welcome to the NHL, Moritz Seider. Meet Patrick Kane.

They almost met at the World Championships, but unfortunately that was one of the games Seider missed with an injury.

 

[Christien]

Seider and Kane already played against each other during an exhibition game between Germany and the U.S

 

[Fil Larkmanthanasiou]

Kane actually schooled Seider in a WC exhibition game for a goal but Seider played a great game otherwise.

 

[Henkka]

Kane actually schooled Seider in a WC exhibition game for a goal but Seider played a great game otherwise.

They rarely meet as right-side D and RW.

But I remember those fun days, when Lidström was always dominating against young Patrick Kane. Left-side D meets RW usually, especially if you matchup the lines & D-pairs against. Lidas just neutralized him, the statline was almost always 0+0 for Kane. Remember one game, where Kane was able to score points, and all came on PP when he got more space off from Lidström.

I'm 100% sure if Kane ever writes a book of his career, he'll mention that taxi driver and Lidström as the toughest opponents ever met.

 

[Konnan511]

Not good for Kaski to not get in as many games as possible, obviously don't play injured, if he's just hurt he should be out there.