On the Wings

I don’t have time to do a full preview so here are just a few quick notes.

Tonight is the third of eight games between these two teams this season. They will play again on Thursday, in Detroit.

The Blues have lost four straight since beating the Wings 3-2 on November 24th. The losses were to Phoenix, San Jose, Nashville, and Chicago.

The Wings won two in a row before losing 3-2 to the Sharks in their most recent game (Saturday).

The Wings’ injury situation is as reported yesterday: Johan Franzen (knee), out; Niklas Kronwall (groin), out; Chris Osgood (wrist), out.

The Blues will be retiring Brett Hull’s #16 tonight before the game. Hull will be remembered by the League and most fans as a Blue, but my memories of Brett will be of him in the Winged Wheel. Congratulations, Brett.

Let’s hope the Wings can put on a better performance this time around.

I have to work on a paper so I don’t think I’ll catch any more than snippets of the game. Sorry.