The Detroit Red Wings host the 2-and-0 Columbus Blue Jackets this evening at Little Caesars Arena (7:30 PM EDT start on Bally Sports Detroit/Bally Sports Ohio/ESPN+/97.1 FM).
The 1-0-and-1 Red Wings hope to evade Columbus’ 11-3-and-2 record against Detroit over the past 16 games between the two teams. The good news here is that Columbus has never started the season 3-and-0…not yet, anyway.
Detroit’s players took to the ice at Little Caesars Arena just before 10:30 AM for their morning skate, and Blue Jackets announcer Bob McElligott was the first person to Tweet out a morning skate video:
View from the #CBJ bench pic.twitter.com/TkM1LzXOcj— Bob McElligott (@BobbyMacSports) October 19, 2021
The Wings’ beat writers soon followed:
Red wings lines and pairs at morning skate:
Bertuzzi-Larkin-Raymond
Zadina-Suter-Fabbri
Namestnikov-Rasmussen-Erne
Smith-Stephens-Gagner
Rowney
DeKeyser-Hronek
Leddy-Seider
Staal-Lindstrom
Oesterle-Stecher— Max Bultman (@m_bultman) October 19, 2021
FYI from Wining It In Motown’s Kyle McIlmurray:
It’s Pride Night at Little Caesars Arena tonight, which you’d only know by digging through this press release from before the season. Talk is cheap, @DetroitRedWings. What else ya got? pic.twitter.com/D0ldwNxJjF— Daniel Trainor (@dantrainor1) October 19, 2021
Meanwhile, in Grand Rapids:
The reigning AHL Defenseman of the Year heard about you ? #GoGRG
Join the fun next week, as we have 3 home games. Tickets >> https://t.co/YjJxKktFsa pic.twitter.com/07X28OkZaN— Grand Rapids Griffins (@griffinshockey) October 19, 2021
Update: FYI:
Thomas Greiss off the ice first this morning. #LGRW @DetroitRedWings— Daniella Bruce (@daniellabruce_) October 19, 2021
