Tonight's Lineup vs NSH

With Khan(!) missing in action, the Free Press has provided us with a little insight as to what our lines will look like tonight vs The Predators.  Some interesting defenisve pairs...

Holmstrom-Datsyuk-Bertuzzi

Leino-Zetterberg-Cleary

Draper-Helm-Eaves

Miller-Abdelkader-May

Maltby (scratched)

Lidstrom-Ericsson

Stuart-Meech

Rafalski-Lebda

Osgood (starting)

Howard

Coach Babcock on his pairings on defense:

“I thought Rafi and Lebs kind of share the same politics, so they can talk to each other about politics.  I thought Big E is from Sweden and Nick is from Sweden, so that works good. And then I thought Meechie and Stuie are from the West, so why not? No, really, honest to God what we did is, we got through the morning skate so far. We’re a work in progress. We’re going to figure it out.”

Um....yeah...what he said.