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Up-to-the minute updates and insights from the Red Wings locker room at home and on the road. By Chuck Pleiness of The Macomb Daily.

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Red Wings' Thursday practice

The Red Wings have just taken the ice at Joe Louis Arena. The only players not on the ice are Valtteri Filppula and Kris Draper. Filppula hasn't practiced in a week but hasn't missed any game action.

Lines they're working with ...
Datsyuk-Zetterberg-Holmstrom
Hudler-Hartigan (for Filppula)-Cleary
Drake-Abdelkader (for Draper)-Samuelsson
Maltby-Helm-McCarty

Lidstrom-Rafalski
Kronwall-Stuart
Lebda-Lilja
Meech-Chelios

Note that Lilja is on the third defense pairing. Abdelkader and Hartigan are acting as place-holders.

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Isn't Draper's wife having their third child today......

May 22, 2008 at 11:43 AM 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Bruce, I don't know how you feel, but I would like to see Abs (how us at Michigan State know him by)/ Abbie (as those at the Red Wings like to call him) get into a game. He, I think, could give them a spark, as he possesses a lot of skill, as well as quite a bit of speed. What do you think about inserting Abdelkader in?

May 22, 2008 at 12:56 PM 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I would also want to see him instead of McCarty but Babcock would never do that

May 23, 2008 at 8:32 AM 

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