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Detroit Red Wings @ Chicago Blackhawks
8:30PM Eastern/7:30 Central
United Center, Chicago
NHLN-US, RDS; FS-D+, CSN-CH/WGN Radio
THE BUZZ
The Wings come to Chicago fighting to maintain their string of 21 straight NHL playoff appearances. So the stakes could not be higher. Add to that a couple more subtexts—the Wings were embarrassed 7-1 on home ice the last time the teams met, and this is the last regular season meeting between the two teams as division or conference rivals—maybe ever.
Corey Crawford gets the net tonight after a string of solid outings by Ray Emery. Crawford is in a fight for his starting job. And it's not that he's been bad. It's just that of late, he hasn't been quite as good or consistent as Emery has.
PROJECTED LINEUPS
DETROIT
HENRIK ZETTERBERG PAVEL DATSYUK JUSTIN ABDELKADER
JOHAN FRANZEN GUSTAV NYQUIST VALTTERI FILPPULA
DREW MILLER JOAKIM ANDERSSON DANIEL CLEARY
PATRICK EAVES RILEY SHEAHAN CORY EMMERTON
JAKUB KINDL KYLE QUINCEY
JONATHAN ERICSSON NIKLAS KRONWALL
IAN WHITE DANNY DEKEYSER
JIMMY HOWARD
CHICAGO
BRANDON SAAD JONATHAN TOEWS MARIAN HOSSA
PATRICK SHARP MARCUS KRUGER PATRICK KANE
BRYAN BICKELL MICHAL HANDZUS VIKTOR STALBERG
DANIEL CARCILLO ANDREW SHAW MICHAEL FROLIK
DUNCAN KEITH NIKLAS HJALMARSSON
BRENT SEABROOK NICK LEDDY
MICHAL ROSZIVAL JOHNNY ODUYA
COREY CRAWFORD
STATS
5-ON-5 GOAL DIFFERENTIAL
Detroit, 17th
Chicago, 1st
POWER PLAY
Detroit, 14th
Chicago, 20th
PENALTY KILL
Detroit, 21st
Chicago, 5th
All for now,
JJ