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Monday, April 20, 2009

Cleary absent

UPDATE: Cleary will be in the lineup for Game 3 in Columbus tomorrow night. Coach Mike Babcock said that Cleary didn't skate today because "We're making sure that he's ready to go."

Draper is out of the lineup for Game 3 because of an upper-body injury.

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Dan Cleary isn't on the ice for today's practice. The Red Wing forward was injured during a practice last Tuesday when he was checked into the boards by teammate Niklas Kronwall. Cleary was able to play in Games 1 and 2 of the Columbus series.

I'll update with Cleary's status later.

With Cleary not on ice for practice, Kris Draper is wearing a top-six red jersey and skating in Cleary's place with Henrik Zetterberg and Johan Franzen.

1 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

As you had mentioned many times, when someone is replaced by a "scratch" player, in this case a somewhat injured Draper that Cleary really is expected to play. If not, they would have adjusted the lines and perhaps called up Leino.

April 20, 2009 at 1:25 PM 

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