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The puck drops at the UC in about an hour. Sorry for the late blog, Mother's Day and all.
Here are the projected lineups for a pivotal game 5:
Minnesota
Niederreiter Koivu Coyle Parise Granlund Pominville Cooke Haula Fontaine Heatley Brodziak McCormick
Suter Scandella Brodin Spurgeon Ballard Stoner
Bryzgalov
Chicago
Bickell Toews Versteeg Sharp Handzus Hosea Saad Kruger Kane Nordstrom Regin Smith
Keith Seabrook Oduya Hajlmarsson Leddy Brookbank
Crawford
Obviously the Hawks are looking for big games form any of a number of players. Coach Joel Quenneville is looking for an injection of speed and energy with the insertion of Peter Regin and moving Kris Versteeg to the top line. Sheldon Brookbank was also a catalyst in turning the St. Louis series around.
They don't get any bigger than this game. Back tomorrow with a recap.
JJ