H1Man
11-17-2006, 10:07 PM
Kronwall, Holmstrom, Williams all out tonight; Wings call up three from Grand Rapids
The Red Wings will be without forwards Jason Williams and Tomas Holmstrom and defenseman Niklas Kronwall tonight when they play the Flames.
Williams (neck) remains on injured reserve. Holmstrom (groin) and Kronwall (groin) have been put on IR, backdated to November 10, which means they can come off Saturday. Chris Osgood (wrist) has been put on IR retroactive to the 12th.
The latter three moves were made so the Wings would have roster room to call up goaltender Stefan Liv, plus forwards Evan McGrath and Darryl Bootland.
At the time of the morning skate, none of the three were expected to make it to Calgary in time for the game, which isn’t a big deal because it’s not like the Wings are short on players – Dominik Hasek will start tonight and Joey MacDonald will back up, and there are still six healthy defensemen and 12 healthy forwards.
I’m guessing Liv was brought in to back up MacDonald Saturday night at Edmonton, since the Wings under no circumstance want Hasek to enter a game cold and thus don’t want to dress him as a backup. Bootland may get in against the Oilers to provide a physical presence, because besides the Raffi Torres-on-Williams hit from the last Detroit-Edmonton game, the Oilers did push around the Wings quite a bit.
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The Red Wings will be without forwards Jason Williams and Tomas Holmstrom and defenseman Niklas Kronwall tonight when they play the Flames.
Williams (neck) remains on injured reserve. Holmstrom (groin) and Kronwall (groin) have been put on IR, backdated to November 10, which means they can come off Saturday. Chris Osgood (wrist) has been put on IR retroactive to the 12th.
The latter three moves were made so the Wings would have roster room to call up goaltender Stefan Liv, plus forwards Evan McGrath and Darryl Bootland.
At the time of the morning skate, none of the three were expected to make it to Calgary in time for the game, which isn’t a big deal because it’s not like the Wings are short on players – Dominik Hasek will start tonight and Joey MacDonald will back up, and there are still six healthy defensemen and 12 healthy forwards.
I’m guessing Liv was brought in to back up MacDonald Saturday night at Edmonton, since the Wings under no circumstance want Hasek to enter a game cold and thus don’t want to dress him as a backup. Bootland may get in against the Oilers to provide a physical presence, because besides the Raffi Torres-on-Williams hit from the last Detroit-Edmonton game, the Oilers did push around the Wings quite a bit.
http://freep.typepad.com/redwings/2006/11/kronwall_holmst.html