Updated 4x at 2:38 PM:
The Detroit Red Wings hit the ice at Little Caesars Arena just before 1 PM on Tuesday, preparing for Wednesday’s home game against the San Jose Sharks (8:00 PM EST on FSD/NBCSNSA/97.1 FM).
Our friends from San Jose will be busy playing against the Pittsburgh Penguins this evening, so they probably won’t hold a morning skate tomorrow; the Red Wings are opening a stretch of 3 games to be played over the course of 4 nights (Detroit plays on Carolina on Friday and Florida on Saturday).
Here are the Tweets of note from today’s practice, starting with MLive’s Ansar Khan’s, “Hello”:
#RedWings return to practice following All-Star break. Face @SanJoseSharks at @LCArena_Detroit tomorrow at 8 p.m. on FSD pic.twitter.com/9lH70SF3c4
— Ansar Khan (@AnsarKhanMLive) January 30, 2018
Khan continued…
Petr Mrazek practicing in starter’s net for #RedWings
The Wings said, “Hi,” too…
And we’re back! #LGRW pic.twitter.com/i4LfSJjyqF
— Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) January 30, 2018
As did the Detroit News’s Ted Kulfan and the Free Press’s Helene St. James:
Appears everyone accounted for at first post-ASG practice for Red Wings other than Mike Green, who played in the game. Daley, Abdelkader, Helm all skating
— Ted Kulfan (@tkulfan) January 30, 2018
Looks like everyone accounted for at Red Wings practice. Petr Mrazek was in starter’s net as practice began. Wings host San Jose Wednesday.
— Helene St. James (@HeleneStJames) January 30, 2018
Also of Red Wings-related Twitter note:
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Rules: https://t.co/DayDywZjyo pic.twitter.com/Z5LFF3fphZ— Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) January 30, 2018
Update: Kulfan corrects himself:
NO, missed him earlier…Green, on ice, too….
Update #2: More from Khan:
#RedWings lines in practice: Nyquist-Zetterberg-Mantha Bertuzzi-Larkin-Athanasiou
Tatar-Nielsen-Helm
Abdelkader-Glendening-Frk/Booth
DeKeyser-Jensen
Kronwall-Green
Ericsson-Daley
Howard now practicing in starter’s net after Mrazek was there earlier.
Update #3: WXYZ’s Brad Galli also checked in…
Red Wings back on the ice, practicing for the first time since the All-Star break.
Helm and Abdelkader said last week they were hopeful to play tomorrow. Updates to come. pic.twitter.com/awjiFhP5RC
— Brad Galli (@BradGalli) January 30, 2018
Update #4: Fox 2’s Sky Kerstein also checked in:
#RedWings on the ice for their first post All-Star practice pic.twitter.com/qKjxlmGVW8
— Sky Kerstein (@SkyKersteinFox2) January 30, 2018
#RedWings getting ready for the #Sharks and the second half of the season pic.twitter.com/siOFHQUCEh
— Sky Kerstein (@SkyKersteinFox2) January 30, 2018
Conflicting reports about who is starting? I think you have to go with Mrazek. Then give Howard one of the games on Friday/Saturday. But it depends on the process.
Looks like Mrazek is starting FS. So that’s good.
What do you mean by “process”? I don’t get it.
Blashill is a fan of the term “process,” as in, “We have to stick with the process,” “When we play our process we’re better,” etc. He means something relatively complicated that waters down to “playing the right way.”
oh. That seams reasonable to ask for. People (players) should respond in the way expected otherwise things could go wrong – people won’t be where they are anticipated to be or doing what others think they should be doing. Sounds pretty smart to me.
Agree whole heartedly.