After today’s Red Wings and Blue Jackets’ morning skates, ahead of tonight’s game (7 PM EDT on DetroitRedWings.com/ColumbusBlueJackets.com/97.1 The Ticket/97.1 The Fan), we received not-so-great injury news from coach Jeff Blashill:

Coach Blashill said Michael Rasmussen is still day to day and will not play tonight or tomorrow. @DetroitRedWings #LGRW— Daniella Bruce (@daniellabruce_) October 6, 2021

Michael Rasmussen remains day to day. Won’t play tonight or tomorrow.— Ethan Sears (@ethan_sears) October 6, 2021

Tyler Bertuzzi practiced this week & will practice today, but is not playing tonight. Blashill said we will see where it goes from there. @DetroitRedWings #LGRW— Daniella Bruce (@daniellabruce_) October 6, 2021

Blashill said there is a chance that both Bobby Ryan and Lucas Raymond make the roster. He said “If you play great hockey, you don’t get denied.” @DetroitRedWings #LGRW— Daniella Bruce (@daniellabruce_) October 6, 2021

Blashill says Rasmussen continues to be day-to-day, will not play tonight/Thursday. Bertuzzi is practicing today, will not play in Columbus, but Blashill did leave door open for Bertuzzi possibly playing tomorrow. #RedWings— Ted Kulfan (@tkulfan) October 6, 2021

According to ColumbusBlueJackets.com’s Jeff Svoboda, the Blue Jackets will join the Red Wings in streaming tonight’s game on their website as well, and here’s their presumptive roster for tonight’s game:

Continue reading Blue Jackets post tonight’s game roster, will be streaming tonight’s game (along with DetroitRedWings.com) →

Good news from the Red Wings’ website: Tonight’s game, which was a radio-only affair, will be streamed on DetroitRedWings.com:

Preseason game #6.

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Ken Kal and Paul Woods will be covering tonight’s game as well:

We are on the Radio tonight and Thursday. Join Paul Woods and yours truly at 6:45pm from Columbus tonight as the ⁦@DetroitRedWings⁩ face off against ⁦@BlueJacketsNHL⁩ Hear the game ⁦@971theticketxyt⁩ pic.twitter.com/vchcJGGNNG— Ken Kal (@KenKalDRW) October 6, 2021

The Detroit Red Wings face off against the Columbus Blue Jackets this evening (7 PM EDT on 97.1 the Ticket), and Ken Kal Tweeted out tonight’s lineup…

Tonight’s Red Wings line up vs Columbus. pic.twitter.com/DxgUwuf8wg— Ken Kal (@KenKalDRW) October 6, 2021

As did The Athletic’s Max Bultman…

Morning skate lines from Detroit’s game group

Zadina-Larkin-Raymond
Erne-Veleno-Ryan
Berggren-Stephens-Barber
Smith-Rowney-Elson

Renouf-Seider
Lashoff-Stecher
Sebrango-Lindstrom
Brubacher— Max Bultman (@m_bultman) October 6, 2021

And MLive’s Ansar Khan:

#RedWings lineup for tonight’s preseason game at Columbus: pic.twitter.com/Hbz9VN5Ol6— Ansar Khan (@AnsarKhanMLive) October 6, 2021

Update #1: We’ve seen this before:

Larkin and Raymond working on their no-look passes to each other pic.twitter.com/n22b3QmwFb— Max Bultman (@m_bultman) October 6, 2021

FYI:

UPDATE: The #RedWings today assigned defenseman Alex Cotton to the WHL’s Lethbridge Hurricanes and released right wing Davis “T-Bone” Codd and defenseman Mason Word from their amateur tryouts.

More » https://t.co/wO7eNZ2A8r pic.twitter.com/FMwm3yqE6v— Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) October 6, 2021

Expressen’s Albin Julin and Adam Johansson spoke with several former NHL players regarding Robin Lehner’s accusations that former NHL teams handed out prescription medication on demand, and Nicklas Lidstrom addresses his situation with the Red Wings.

What follows is the pertinent part of Julin and Johansson’s article, roughly translated from Swedish:

Continue reading Roughly translated: Nicklas Lidstrom speaks with Expressen regarding the use of painkillers in the NHL →

Red Wings prospect Albin Grewe, who’s all of 20 years of age, has bounced around over the past couple of seasons, and Aftonbladet’s Mattias Karlsson reports this morning that Grewe will play for Mora IK of the Swedish Allsvenskan after being released by Ilves Tampere yesterday.

Mora’s website reports that Grewe’s signed a two-year contract with the team.

The Free Press’s Tyler J. Davis posted a mini Red Wings-Blue Jackets game preview ahead of tonight’s match-up (7 PM EDT start), and he confirms that tonight’s game will not air on TV anywhere.

Tonight’s game is a radio-only affair in both the Red Wings and Blue Jackets’ marketplaces, with 97.1 the Ticket and Columbus’ 97.1 The Fan being the only places broadcasting the game.

Here’s Davis’ game preview:

Game notes: The Wings meet the Blue Jackets in a rematch of Saturday’s exhibtion. Detroit won that one convincingly, 5-1, behind two goals from Dylan Larkin. Larkin is unlikely to play Wednesday, but Lucas Raymond may. Raymond, the Wings’ 2020 first-round pick, leads the team with six points in just three preseason games. 

The Wings have two more exhibitions following Wednesday’s contest. Fans will get one final look at potential starters in a Thursday night home meeting with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Detroit closes the preseason on the road vs. the Buffalo Sabres before the Oct. 14 season opener vs. the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Thursday’s game airs on Bally Sports Detroit, but I’m not sure whether the Sabres’ website will stream Saturday’s game or not. In any case, for tonight, at least, we’ll have to leave the goals to our imaginations, which seems a little silly in 2021.

Detroit Hockey Now’s Bob Duff explains how, 89 years ago today, the Detroit Red Wings were officially born:

Detroit’s NHL team was born as the Cougars and became the Falcons but it wasn’t until the team was christened the Red Wings that the franchise truly arrived in the NHL.

It was on October 5, 1932 that the announcement was made that henceforth, Detroit’s NHL team would be known as the Red Wings.

“Detroit Falcons became the Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League and John Ross Roach of New York Rangers became the regular goaltender for the Motor City troupe as the new hockey interests started housecleaning and remodeling for the 1932-33 season,” Windsor’s Border Cities Star reported of the October 5, decision to rename the team.

The story continues…

ESPN’s Victoria Matiash, Sean Allen, Arda Ocal and Greg Wysyhnski engaged in a roundtable discussion, making fantasy hockey picks, and Allen believes that Moritz Seider should be a breakout rookie for the Red Wings:

Sean:Moritz Seider, D, Detroit Red Wings. Everything is lined up to give Seider the best chance at success this season. He has pro experience in North America already, having skated in the AHL back in 2019-20. In Nick Leddy, the Red Wings brought Seider an experienced defense partner that has had success being a two-way force in the game for many years. Seider has natural offense to his game and the Red Wings have a desperate need of it being generated from the blue line.

Continued; here’s hoping.