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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.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Sammy playing?

I'm going to guess that Mikael Samuelsson will play tonight and Kris Draper will be a healthy scratch. Sammy was taking part in the players' pregame soccer kickaround just now. I'm guessing if you're too injured to play in the Stanley Cup final, you're not going to kick around a ball.

So, according to Coach Mike Babcock this morning, if Samuelsson is playing, a healthy Draper will sit again. Call it the curse of Yzerman. Draper is tied with Steve Yzerman for second on the Red Wings' list of career playoff games played at 196. (Nicklas Lidstrom is first with 229 entering tonight's game.)

That would make the lines tonight something like this ...

Franzen-Zetterberg-Hudler
Franzen-Filppula-Hossa
Cleary-Helm-Samuelsson
Leino-Abdelkader-Maltby

Lidstrom-Rafalski
Kronwall-Stuart
Ericsson-Lebda

Osgood
Conklin

Of course, all that goes out the window if the Wings switched their lines up since the morning skate.

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