Ansar Khan reports that both Tomas Holmstrom (bleeding eye) and Brett Lebda (concussion, sprained ankle) are day-to-day. Apparently, Homer saw an eye doctor in Calgary before the team returned to Detroit and will see an eye specialist tomorrow. His eye is swollen shut, so, like Khan says, it doesn’t seem all that likely that he’ll be ready to go for Game 1 of the second round.
As for Lebda, he wasn’t feeling great after skating yesterday, but will try again tomorrow or Wednesday. It sounds like he’s more likely to play in the opener.
The NHL has released the official schedule for the second round and the Wings’ games will take place as follows:
Date/Time (ET) #1 Detroit vs. Dallas/San Jose Network
Thursday, April 26 7:30 p.m. Dallas/San Jose at Detroit VERSUS
Saturday, April 28 3:00 p.m. Dallas/San Jose at Detroit NBC
Monday, April 30 9/10:00 p.m. Detroit at Dallas/San Jose VERSUS
Wednesday, May 2 9/10:00 p.m. Detroit at Dallas/San Jose VERSUS
* Saturday, May 5 2:00 p.m. Dallas/San Jose at Detroit NBC
* Monday, May 7 TBD Detroit at Dallas/San Jose VERSUS
* Wednesday, May 9 TBD Dallas/San Jose at Detroit VERSUS
I can’t say I’m overly thrilled with the start time on Game 2 since I have to go to a long-time friend’s college graduation that day at 3:00 PM. Not sure what’ll happen for the game report. I’ll get back to you on that.
Matt, if he was a real friend, he would understand that some things are more important.
By the way, thanks for the updates. You’ve been doing a great job the last couple of days…we all appreciate it.
Gabriel,
Haha, maybe. But I’ve already committed. Just bad timing, unfortunately.
And thanks! I’m just glad there have been things to post about over the past few days, unlike last year at this point in the season.
I’m going to be starting a job where I work midnight shift on Sunday, so I’ll be missing a lot of games too. So I feel your pain Matt…