On the Wings

Both Helene St. James and Ansar Khan report that Chris Osgood has had a setback in his recovery from a broken wrist. He had the cast taken off today, but had to have another one put on as his wrist is not yet healed. It will be on until Saturday at the earliest, making it highly unlikely he’ll return before the Wings’ December 14th game in Chicago.

Well, I guess that means the edginess about the goaltending among the Hockeytown citizenry will persist for another couple weeks. If you’re worried (we’re not) that Joey MacDonald might see time in the net, rest easy: we don’t have any more back-to-back series until December 22nd-23rd, a week or so after Osgood is due back.

Khan and St. James also write on Johan Franzen and Niklas Kronwall, though they have slightly different takes on the former. St. James says Franzen will be out another week, while Khan says he won’t play in either of the two St. Louis games this week. Both say Kronwall will try to skate tomorrow, though Khan is of the opinion that Nik will be out another week. Nik, is it too much to ask for you to get healthy and stay that way? Sheesh.

One final note: they both think Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg could be reunited soon. Apparently, they’ve been practicing on a line together with Mikael Samuelsson and could play together tomorrow night in St. Louis. That’d be a good way to get both of them going consistently, though it spreads the offense thin elsewhere.