Month: November 2024

The Tweets from Friday’s practice at the BELFOR Training Center were sparse, but the Red Wings head into tomorrow’s game vs. the Buffalo Sabres on an 0-2-and-1 streak, so the Wings will hope to take advantage of the Sabres, who play tonight vs. the New York Islanders.

After practice, the Red Wings’ coach spoke with the media…

Cam Talbot starting for Red Wings vs. Sabres Saturday.

— Helene St. James (@HeleneStJames) November 1, 2024

Talbot starting in goal for Red Wings against Sabres tomorrow, Lalonde says

— Max Bultman (@m_bultman) November 1, 2024

Sounds like Tyler Motte (upper body) just needs medical clearance to play. If so, Wings will have 13 Fs available Saturday; based on Friday practice, Berggren and Motte were rotating on 4th line (with Veleno & Fischer).

— Helene St. James (@HeleneStJames) November 1, 2024

#RedWings Lalonde: Talbot starting tomorrow. Motte might be cleared and play. If so, they’ll decide at that time which forward to scratch. Based on practice, looked like Berggren would be odd-man out.

— Ansar Khan (@AnsarKhanMLive) November 1, 2024

Talbot starting and it looks like Motte and Tarasenko will be ready to go vs. Buffalo #RedWings

— Ted Kulfan (@tkulfan) November 1, 2024

The Red Wings hit the ice just after 11 AM on Friday at the BELFOR Training Center underneath Little Caesars Arena, hoping to snap their 0-2-and-1 winless streak as they host the Buffalo Sabres tomorrow (7 PM EDT start on FanDuel Sports Detroit).

Buffalo is hosting the New York Islanders tonight, so there’s going to be an impetus for the Wings to rebound from Wednesday night’s loss to Winnipeg while the Wings are playing only 3 games over the course of 8 nights. Buffalo also hasn’t played since a Monday night loss to Florida which snapped a 3-game winning streak.

Anyway…

Vladimir Tarasenko back on the ice ahead of today’s practice, obviously a positive sign for his availability Saturday. Here he is chatting with Derek Lalonde before the session formally begins pic.twitter.com/2IeuMxdo2A

— Sam Stockton (@_samstockton) November 1, 2024

As MLive’s Ansar Khan notes, the Wings have shaken up their forward lines (I believe they did so during yesterday’s practice)…

#RedWings lines in practice before hosting Sabres tomorrow (7, FanDuel):
DeBrincat-Larkin-Kane
Copp-Compher-Raymond
Rasmussen-Kasper-Tarasenko
Motte/Berggren-Veleno-Fischer
Edvinsson-Seider
Chiarot-Petry
Gustafsson-Holl
Johansson
Talbot/Lyon pic.twitter.com/XnfN0DvCt2

— Ansar Khan (@AnsarKhanMLive) November 1, 2024

Myself, Evan Sabourin and Devin Little appear in the latest episode of “The Flying Octopus” podcast this morning, and we discuss the Red Wings’ first 10 games in an episode titled “Panic in Hockeytown”: