Travel day + familial health issue = intermittent blog updates, if at all

The Detroit Red Wings play the Chicago Blackhawks tonight at 7:30 PM EDT, and the game will air on TV via Bally Sports Detroit Extra, and Ken Kal and Paul Woods will narrate the game on WWJ Newsradio 950.

Update: The Wings confirmed the broadcasting set-up on Twitter:

Home ice! #LGRW

🏒: 7:30pm ET
📺: @BallySportsDET extra
📻: @WWJ950
🤝: @UWMLife pic.twitter.com/uZvdn8X5B9— Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) September 28, 2022

Detroit won a 6-2 decision over the Pittsburgh Penguins last night, and coach Derek Lalonde hinted to DetroitRedWings.com’s Jonathan Mills that the “B Team” will get today off.

That means that the Larkin-Raymond-Seider group will probably play tonight’s game vs. the Blackhawks, who lost 4-1 to St. Louis last night at home.

I am going to be making the 4-hour, 238-mile trip home around the time that Detroit holds its morning skate, and as my Aunt Annie is being discharged from rehabilitation care today, I have no idea whether I’ll be able to cover tonight’s game in any way, shape or form.

As I said yesterday, I’ve got to go with the “family comes first” mantra here, and if I may be frank, she’s an utter mess after having fallen down the stairs after fainting due to near-fatally-low sodium levels.

Things have improved over the past five days, but she’s refusing to go to a rehabilitation center, so I’ll have to take care of her and her injuries at home (hopefully with the help of some home health care nurses).

Anyway, long story short, blog updates will be sparse today, and we’ll take it from there.

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George Malik

My name is George Malik, and I'm the Malik Report's editor/blogger/poster. I have been blogging about the Red Wings since 2006, when MLive hired me to work their SlapShots blog, and I joined Kukla's Korner in 2011 as The Malik Report. I'm starting The Malik Report as a stand-alone site, hoping that having my readers fund the website is indeed the way to go to build a better community and create better content.