Detroit Red Wings
Red Wings at Mammoth: Notes, Lines, Goalies, How to Watch
The Detroit Red Wings (33-18-6) are on the road today to play the Utah Mammoth (29-23-4). The Red Wings are in second place in the Atlantic Division, four points behind the Tampa Bay Lightning. The Mammoth are in a Western Conference wildcard position.
Where: Delta Center
When: 9 p.m. ET
TV/Radio: FanDuel Sports Network/97.1 FM
Odds: Detroit (+1.5, -218), Utah (-1.5, +180), DRAFTKINGS
Hot: Marco Kasper shows three goals and four assists for seven points in his last nine games, compared to three goals and three assists in his first 37 games.
Not: The Red Wings power play is 1-for-19 (5.2%) in their last six games, including 0-for-2 Monday at Colorado.
Spotlight: Captain Dylan Larkin (626 career points) is seven points away from tying Brendan Shanahan (633) for 10th place on Detroit’s all-time scoring list.
Story: John Gibson will start in goal for Detroit. He owns an 18-4-1 record with a 2.07 goals-against average, a 0.925 save percentage and four shutouts in 23 appearances since Dec. 2 vs. Boston.
. . Detroit is 9-3-2 in its last 11 games since Jan. 5 at Ottawa. That include Gibson’s 2-0 shutout win at Colorado Monday. . .The Red Wings are a 20-7-4 record since Dec. 2 vs. Boston. . . The Red Wings are 17-8-1 against Western Conference teams. . . Coach Todd McLellan’s team is 17-2-6 record in one-goal games this season. Detroit is 22-0-2 this season when scoring four-or-more goals (excluding shootout-deciding goals). . . Injuries: Defenseman Simon Edvinsson has missed six games with a lower body injury. He won’t return to the lineup until after the Olympic break.
Detroit Projected Lines
Alex DeBrincat — Andrew Copp — Patrick Kane
Lucas Raymond — Dylan Larkin — Marco Kasper
Emmitt Finnie — J.T. Compher — Mason Appleton
Elmer Soderblom — Michael Rasmussen — James van Riemsdyk
Defense Pairings
Albert Johansson — Moritz Seider
Ben Chiarot — Jacob Bernard-Docker
Travis Hamonic — Axel Sandin-Pellikka
Goalies
John Gibson (Cam Talbot backing up)
Subs: Erik Gustafsson
Utah Mammoth
Story: The Mammoth have lost three of their last five, but overwhelmed Vancouver 6-2 on Monday. . .Utah’s 10 wins in January are the most wins in a single calendar month in franchise history. . . Utah has scored at least four goals in eight of its last 11 games. . .The Mammoth are 24-5-2 when Nick Schmaltz has recorded a point this season. Injuries: Logan Cooley and Alex Kerfoot, both on IR.
Line Combinations
Clayton Keller — Nick Schmaltz — Lawson Crouse
JJ Peterka — Barrett Hayton — Kailer Yamamoto
Michael Carccone — Jack McBain — Dylan Guenther
Brandon Tanev — Kevin Stenlund — Liam O’Brien
Defense Pairings
Mikhail Sergachev — Sean Durzi
Nate Schmidt — John Marino
Ian Cole — Nick Desimone
Goalies
Karel Vejmelka (Vitek Vanecek backing up)
Would certainly be great to go into the Olympic break on a winning note. Hope they get the PP back online. Hopefully Kasper can keep on improving. He is beginning to show flashes of his last year’s form.
Credit to the coaching staff for seeing something in Kasper despite his slow start. Hope he can develop some more consistency as he gets more experience.
Certainly true. He would be able to provide much needed scoring and take the load off of the usual ones. Right now, among the teams in a playoff position in The East we are 2’nd lowest scoring team.
According to trusty Bob Duff: 4 players were needed to trade for Panarin .
Nope. A couple.
He was right on with his guess of the Kings,but it seems like hes off on what he thinks the prices for the players are.
It looks like the Kings got him pretty cheap except for that contract extension.
I thought that’s where he wanted to go. But maybe I’m wrong on that. That would help their chances.
I read that he wanted to go to Florida but they have no cap room. The Kings want to go all in because Kopitar is retiring this year.
Same
A very disappointing loss to Utah. Not a good showing by Gibson. TM’s first unit is questionable and proved so in the first minute. I’d rather see Larkin with DeBrincat and Copp. Kane would fare better on the 2nd or 3rd line. The playoffs remain a huge question mark.