Just the Facts:
Game Time: 7:30 PM, TD Garden. TV Broadcast: NESN, NBCSN, TSN. Radio Broadcast: 98.5 The Sports Hub
Rival SB Nation Site: Winging it in Motown
Series Record: Bruins 0-0 vs Red Wings 0-0
Wings Lines:
Gustav Nyquist | Pavel Datsyuk | Justin Abdelkader |
Johan Franzen | Darren Helm | Daniel Alfredsson |
Tomas Jurco | Riley Sheahan | Tomas Tatar |
Drew Miller | David Legwand | Luke Glendening |
Niklas Kronwall | Brendan Smith |
Kyle Quincey | Danny DeKeyser |
Brian Lashoff | Jakub Kindl |
Jimmy Howard (starting) |
Jonas Gustavsson |
Bruins Lines:
Milan Lucic | David Krejci | Jarome Iginla |
Brad Marchand | Patrice Bergeron | Reilly Smith |
Chris Kelly | Carl Soderberg | Loui Eriksson |
Daniel Paille | Gregory Campbell | Shawn Thornton |
Zdeno Chara | Dougie Hamilton |
Johnny Boychuk | Matt Bartkowski |
Torey Krug | Kevan Miller |
Tuukka Rask (starting) |
Chad Johnson |
Game Notes:
- Everyone seems set on talking about the fact that the Bruins did terribly against the Wings this year but let's be real: most of those games were in the pre-Meszaros era. In the latter half of this season, the Bruins really seemed to gel together and get things done. If the March Bruins are the team that comes out tonight against Jimmy Howard and the Wings, things will be okay.
- Tuukka Rask is 1-4-1 in six career games against the Red Wings. Let's fix that. On the flip side, mediocre goaltender Jimmy Howard is 4-1-0 against Boston. Not okay.
In future games we'll have extraskater data in this spot, but for now, let's watch some pump-up videos.