The Red Wings Tweeted out their lineup for tonight’s game vs. the Chicago Blackhawks (7:30 PM EDT on Bally Sports Detroit/NBCSCH):

Game #5.#LGRW pic.twitter.com/m9pl4broy6

— Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) October 4, 2021

ChicagoBlackhawks.com’s Carter Baum posted the Hawks’ lineup earlier today:

#Blackhawks depart for Detroit soon for tonight’s preseason tilt.

Projected lineup:
DeBrincat – T. Johnson – Kane
Kubalik – Toews – Kurashev
Hardman – Borgstrom – Carpenter
Hagel – Gaudette – Entwistle

McCabe – S. Jones
de Haan – Murphy
C. Jones – Galvashttps://t.co/sKEsjaik0m

— Carter Baum (@CarterBaum) October 4, 2021

DetroitRedWings.com’s Daniella Bruce and 97.1 the Ticket’s Ken Kal preview tonight’s game vs. Chicago (7:30 PM EDT on FSD/NBCSCH):

The Wings also posted a teaser for Episode 3 of “The Winged Wheel”:

The Detroit Red Wings host the Chicago Blackhawks this evening (7:30 PM EDT on Bally Sports Detroit/NBC Sports Chicago), with the Red Wings looking to rebound from yesterday’s ugly loss to Pittsburgh as they entertain the plucky Blackhawks.

The Red Wings must not have held a morning skate today, because the Blackhawks’ press corps Tweeted out the following at 11 AM EDT:

Third week of Blackhawks training camp beginning on this gloomy Monday pic.twitter.com/KEVKcoQV2r— Ben Pope (@BenPopeCST) October 4, 2021

As a follow-up to this morning’s story regarding Jesper Eliasson needing a place to play, Farjestads BK has loaned Eliasson to Almtuna IS of the Swedish Allsvenskan:

Jesper Eliasson lånas ut till @Almtuna_1932 i HockeyAllsvenskan.
Vi önskar Jesper stort lycka till! #fbkse pic.twitter.com/45tTI4tdnC— Färjestad BK (@farjestad_bk) October 4, 2021

Detroit Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill spoke with the media ahead of tonight’s game against the Chicago Blackhawks (7:30 PM EDT on Bally Sports Detroit/NBC Sports Chicago):

This is an…intriguing take:

Here’s Jeff Blashill on Bertuzzi and why he hasn’t yet played this preseason: pic.twitter.com/3qMDv398fv— Max Bultman (@m_bultman) October 4, 2021

Expressen’s southern Sweden affiliate, Kvallsposten, is reporting that Frans Nielsen may be close to signing with the DEL’s Eisbaren Berlin.

Johan “Mr. Madhawk” Svensson reports that the former Red Wing, now 37, is, per Nielsen’s agent, Morten Green, being pursued by Swedish, Swiss and German teams right now, with the Swedish team of note being the Malmo Redhawks, who are close to where Nielsen and his pregnant wife live in the offseason.

According to Hockeysverige.se’s Rasmus Kagstrom, Red Wings goaltending prospect Jesper Eliasson may be on the move again.

Farjestads BK apparently just signed goaltender Dominik Furch to be their back-up behind Henrik Haukeland, and so Farejstads BK’s GM, Peter Jakobsson, told Varmlands Folkblad that he may loan Eliasson out to another team to give him some playing time.

Of prospect-related note in North America on Sunday:

In the OHL, Pasquale Zito got 5 minutes and a game misconduct for fighting early on (only 9:02 into the 1st period) in the Windsor Spitfires’ 6-2 loss to Oshawa;

In the WHL, Alex Cotton’s Lethbridge Hurricanes won 4-1 over the Calgary Hitmen;

In NCAA Hockey, Red Savage finished at -1 with a shot and a penalty taken, as well as a 9-for-17 faceoff record, in the Miami of Ohio Redhawks’ 4-3 loss to Ferris State;

And Ryan O’Reilly didn’t play in the Arizona State University Sun Devils’ 4-2 loss to UMass-Lowell.

Red Wings prospect and 2021 draft pick Sebastian Cossa split his first two games for the Edmonton Oil Kings this season, and he spoke with the Edmonton Sun’s Derek Van Diest regarding both his experiences at the Red Wings’ prospect tournament and main training camp, as well as his expectations for the upcoming season with the WHL’s Edmonton Oil Kings:

“It was really good; just being around there for two weeks, being around pros for that long, I think I took away a lot things coming into the season,” Cossa said. “Just practice habits and off-ice habits I kind of took away. Just coming here, I’m prepared to use that for the whole season and keep my body feeling better and try to have a good year.”

Cossa is expected to play the bulk of the games for the Oil Kings until they lose him to the world juniors. From there, head coach Brad Lauer might manage his minutes in preparation for an expected lengthy playoff run.

“We’re likely going to lose him for 12 games for the world juniors and right now, the way our schedule is set up, you can run with a guy for a while,” Lauer said. “There is a little bit of travel and not a lot of games, so it gives us the opportunity to run with him a little bit, but we’ll see. Everything changes day by day. We do have a start plan for him that we may stick to and we may change too, as well. But we’ll probably run with it for a little while.”

The Oil Kings travel to face the Lethbridge Hurricanes on Wednesday, Swift Current Broncos on Friday and Medicine Hat Tigers on Saturday.

Cossa is comfortable with a heavy workload, particularly after playing 19 of 23 games last season. The Oil Kings gave him practically every start so NHL scouts could get a good gauge on him.

“Last year, it was a big thing for me to be consistent and coming in this year, I want to have the same attitude,” Cossa said. “I’m just taking it day by day, game by game. Every two points is really important, so I just want to come in here every night, and just worrying about the new night regardless of how I played the game before. That’s going to help a lot.”

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