Tonight's Lineup vs Blue Shirts

Khan(!), as usual, has your lineup for tonight's game:

Franzen-Zetterberg-Bertuzzi
Hudler-Datsyuk-Cleary
Abdelkader-Filppula-Eaves
Draper-Helm-Miller

Lidstrom-Kronwall
Ericsson-Rafalski
Kindl-Salei

Howard (starting)
MacDonald

It's a give and take from the lineup we've had the past few games.

You add a little Dangles:

“Much better, I can shoot, it's very important.  I'm a shooter, I'm not a passer.'' --Pavel Datsyuk

...yeah okay, Pavel.

But we take away a little Murzy:

"I can barely walk in the skate. I'm not able to skate.  I was almost 100 percent sure it's broken. It was pretty painful. But they said it's not broken. It's pretty swollen, it's sore right now, but I'm sure I'll be ready in a couple of days to play.'' --Jan Mursak

Murzy took a Shea Weber slapshot off the big toe....ouch.

In an interesting note, King of the Thigh Risers, Henrik Lundqvist  will NOT be starting tonight.  Instead, Detroit will be firing the pucks at Marty Biron.  Beware the back-ups, they always seem to play their best against us.

We're not losing three in a row.  Let's do this.  And I want Helm out there with Gaborik at least once...just one foot race.