The Grand Rapids Press‘ Michael Zuidema reports that Jakub Kindl has been recalled. The AHL wire doesn’t say anything about it yet, but it doesn’t always get updated quickly.

While Zuidema says Kindl could make his NHL debut tomorrow night, I think we can safely assume this means Rafalski’s sitting and Jakub’s in. They’d just wait to call him up after the morning skate tomorrow if they were going to wait until then to see how Rafi’s feeling. They must have already ruled him out.

So, now the question is who does Jakub play with? I wouldn’t expect him to get real minutes. Effectively, the Wings will probably go with 5 1/2 defensemen in terms of usage tomorrow night.

On Kindl, Meg commented on my earlier post from her perspective as a Griffins season ticket holder:

I’m excited to see Kindl on the Wings roster. I’m not excited to see him off the Griffs roster. He’s been really solid this year so far. Defensibly responsible as well as showing good signs of offense. That’s what I like from my defense. He’s finally started to show why he is so highly thought of by the so-called experts.