Thursday, October 22, 2009

Tonight's Lines

As was expected, Pavel Datsyuk will be back in the lineup tonight against the Coyotes. Datsyuk missed the past two games due to an undisclosed upper body injury. The Wings can use his scoring against Phoenix's goalie, Ilya Bryzgalov, though he only has two assists and zero goals so far this season.

Datsyuk will be skating in familiar territory alongside Tomas Holmstrom (right wing) and Henrik Zetterberg (center). The other lines are as follows:

Leino-Filppula-Williams
Bertuzzi-Draper-Cleary
Abdelkader-Helm-Maltby

Defensemen:

Lidstrom-Rafalski
Kronwall-Stuart
Ericsson-Lebda

Osgood gets the start.

The biggest move here is Bertuzzi getting dropped from Zetterberg's line down to the third line. Watch for that line to forecheck plenty and put a lot of pressure on the Coyotes defesemen.

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