GDT: Game 70: Columbus vs. Detroit | 3/17 7PM EDT

[Samkow]

7:00 PM
Nationwide Arena
Columbus, Ohio

Lines
Abdelkader-Zetterberg-Larkin
Tatar-Datsyuk-Mantha
Nyquist-Sheahan-Athanasiou
Helm-Glendening-Richards

DeKeyser-Quincey
Green-Smith
Ericsson-Marchenko

Howard
Mrazek

Inactive
Jurco, Pullkkinen

Injured
Franzen, Kronwall, Miller

Lines
Saad-Jenner-Atkinson
Hartnell-Karlsson-Foligno
Dubinsky-Wennberg-Bjorkstrand
Bourque-Campbell-Calvert

Murray-Savard
Tyutin-Jones
Goloubef-Ramage

Bobrovsky
McElhinney

Inactive
Boll, Chaput, Prout

Injured
Clarkson, Johnson​

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[Fro]

begrudgingly going tonight...would be better for my health to just go to Flannigans and drink all night...

 

[The Jones Zone]

Lines
Saad-Jenner-Johansen



I'll start following the Oilers if Johansen is back in a CBJ uniform

remove the turd and insert Cam

 

[Fro]

hahahahaha didn't even notice that he slid Joey in...

 

[We Want Ten]

Throwback game?

CBJ 4
DET 3

 

[Valdiz]

No chance here. Poopy D and flaky Bob.
Hoping for a solid effort from the offence. Want to see Fligs continue contributing.

 

[Columbus Mike]

Win-win tonight.

We win and it really hurts Detroit's playoff chances
We lose and we get a better draft pick.

 

[EspenK]

I don't see Bjorkstrand being in the line-up tonight. Is that a wishful thought in the lines above or has it been announced. I think he would benefit from at least one practice.

 

[CBJ goalie]

Finally, game day.
Would love to see a CBJ win, and put a dent into the Red Wings playoff chances, especially now that the Flyers have caught up to them.

Interested to see how Bjork and Ramage do.

 

[DarkandStormy]

I don't see Bjorkstrand being in the line-up tonight. Is that a wishful thought in the lines above or has it been announced. I think he would benefit from at least one practice.

They're not calling the kid up to press box him.

 

[5thLiner]

LOVE that third line.

 

[Dr. Fire]

Flyers knocked Detroit down to 9th place last night. Too much for them to lose by letting this one get away.

Wings win this one convincingly.

 

[EspenK]

They're not calling the kid up to press box him.

There is precedent. Didn't Anderson and Rychel sit when they first arrived? I'm pretty sure at least one did.

 

[Fro]

no one is saying they called him up to just sit in the box...but to give him a chance to practice and see the speed of the game before throwing him to the wolves

 

[Fro]

all 3 call-ups playing tonight

Aaron Portzline ‏@Aportzline 22s23 seconds ago
#CBJ Fedor Tyutin is sick and questionable tonight vs. #RedWings

update

Rob Mixer ‏@RobMixer 40s41 seconds ago
Fedor Tyutin is likely out tonight due to illness. #CBJ may have to recall another defenseman today.

 

[niflheim]

Rob Mixer ‏@RobMixer 40s41 seconds ago
Fedor Tyutin is likely out tonight due to illness. #CBJ may have to recall another defenseman today.

yeee Heatherington? Yevenko? Hejda?

ps Clarkson injured again. my bad, it's impossible

 

[KlichkoBro*]

yeee Heatherington? Yevenko? Hejda?

ps Clarkson injured again. my bad, it's impossible

Hejda is gone for a while and he didn't have contract with the Jackets. I still hope it's Kukan. Or Yevenko.

 

[KlichkoBro*]

Ramage joins U of Wisconsin five other blue liners from the 2010 squad in the NHL, joining Pittsburgh's Justin Schultz, New York's Ryan McDonagh, Columbus' Cody Goloubef, Toronto's Jake Gardiner and Detroit's Brendan Smith in the select club. That's impressive job for the Badgers.

 

[ndd17]

Falk recalled.
Heatherington,Yevenko,Paliotta,Kukan. Good when you have a choice.

 

[Cowumbus]

Bjorkstrand pots one tonight from a Wennberg pass. Actually loving the "first" line

 

[joshjoshjosh]

Portzy's Twitter

Looks like
Hartnell Jenner Atkinson
Dubinsky Wennberg Bjorkstrand

 

[major major]

C'mon OP. It was a funny joke with the lines but some of us actually come here to check the lines.

Now that I've finally found the actual lines:
Torts said he was just checking for intel with the new forward lines. That makes a lot of sense from where we are at. Perhaps more important than Bjorkstrand's trial is checking how Boone does back at center. If Boone does well, and Karlsson doesn't improve, it's possible that Karlsson's out of a top 9 C job next year.
But if we're in win now mode we can't go through this line-o-matic process all of the time. Jenner-Dubinsky-Atkinson was incredible. That group has scored at a very high rate, some of the highest goal scoring of any line in the league (while they've played together they've never had a 10 game stretch where they were any lower than the 12th best line in the league, where they are now, and they've been as high as 4th - per left wing lock). They're definitely greater than the sum of their parts.

As for the D, I don't approve splitting Murray and Jones. That duo is struggling now but there is no "intel" that you need about other possible top pairings. That is our top pairing next year. If we go into next year with any other pairing we're in trouble. Murray-Jones played great for a month or so, they need to stay together, re-focus, and get back to it.

 

[ndd17]

Bjorkstrand pots one tonight from a Wennberg pass.

When the last time Blue Jackets player scored his first goal in the first game for us? I don't remember correctly. I began to follow for Blue Jackets in the end of season 11/12.
Maybe Dano wasn't in the lineup first season game against Buffalo and it was his goal to rags?
Or Horton goal to Preds, we won 2-0 iirc and first game goal was him in the power play? I dunno...

 

[WannabeFinn]

Horton scored in his CBJ debut against Arizona

 

[Tulipunaruusu*]

There might be a bout between Wennberg and Bjorkstrand tonight if those lines are correct and those two scramble into the same corner during the showdown. I don't know if a Swede and a Dane have played before in the same line in the NHL where mills are enabled by default in comparison to European-German-Roman law but Tortorella is preparing for one heated game if those are his marching orders for tonight whether he then knows or not about the rivalry that has been on for thousand years and counting.