Red Wings vs Blackhawks rematch morning skate Tweets: Detroit’s ‘second group’ will skate vs. Chicago

The Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks face off tonight in a rematch of Wednesday’s 4-2 Red Wings win (7 PM EDT start on DetroitRedWings.com in Michigan/ChicagoBlackhawks.com in Illinois):

The Red Wings hit the ice at Little Caesars Arena just before 10:30 AM:

DetroitRedWings.com’s Jonathan Mills posted a written game preview:

Head coach Derek Lalonde said he liked the Red Wings’ compete level on Wednesday.

“We’re out here diving and blocking shots in the third period to win a game,” Lalonde said. “I appreciated that from the group. Still some things we got to clean up. Naturally, this time of year, we gave up some easy offense and odd-mans. Young guys played very well. Obviously we won the special teams battle at the end of the night. A lot of positives, but a work in progress.”

When asked to project Chicago’s lineup for Thursday, Lalonde said that’s difficult to predict during the preseason because of the uniqueness of the schedule.

“We travelled a pretty good roster [on Wednesday],” Lalonde said. “I just think people get in different points of their situation, where you’re kind of forced to split teams up. Who knows where people are in their process? I foresee us fielding some pretty deep teams throughout the entire camp, probably mostly a credit to our added depth.”

From Andrew Copp’s perspective, there’s been “some consistency with the lines we’ve seen so far.”

“Every time you come into Training Camp, coaches have a good idea of what they want to do,” Copp said. “It’s always a time for some internal competition and see where things shake out. There’s definitely some of that, and how things end up fitting together will obviously be something that the coaches spend a lot of time on.”

Also, FYI:

The morning skate continues:

Meanwhile, in Chicago…

After the morning skate…

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