Ericsson out 2-3 weeks, Janik up
Written by Kyle Kujawa   
Tuesday, 15 December 2009 14:16

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Quick update on the injury front. Detroit got what I am taking to be pretty good news on Jonathan Ericsson. He has a "deep bone bruise" and will be out for a minimum of two weeks. Obviously, you'd like to hear that he could go as soon as possible, but I was thinking more along the lines of an ACL tear, out for a minimum of four months. This is good news.

Ken Holland says that Detroit will recall Doug Janik from Grand Rapids for Thursday's game. I called for Jakub Kindl last night, but I didn't really think that all the way through. Brian Rafalski, Brett Lebda, Derek Meech, Jakub Kindl... who's going to kill penalties? Is it bad when a team has significantly more penalty killing forwards than defensemen? Janik will be up to kill penalties, Holland says. Hopefully they're comfortable with Kindl in the NHL full-time next season with just two games of NHL experience.

Finally, that Detroit News article reports that Darren Helm should be good to go for Thursday. It's been nice knowing you, Kris Newbury, but I hope you never have to don a Wings' jersey again.



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junkyarddog said:

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Hey, Kris Newbury played a great game and scored a big goal. Why are you against him? He looks like a solid NHL player. When will they bring up delmore?
 
December 16, 2009
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KyleKujawa said:

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Newbury actually wasn't as terrible as I thought he would be, but his two penalties were pretty stupid. That goal was big, but extremely lucky -- Draper's pass was going to Miller.

But if I had the choice, I'd rather see Helm. That's mainly all I meant by that.

Delmore probably won't come up. He's pretty bad in his own zone, and he hasn't been producing offensively in Grand Rapids like expected. He was hurt for a bit, but as of now the more defensively-minded Janik is really outproducing him in points too. If Detroit needed an offensive guy, they'd go with Kindl. If they needed a second offensive guy, it would be Delmore, but if the injury situation got that bad I think I'd sooner stop watching hockey.
 
December 16, 2009
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Keith B said:

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I really hoped we'd see Kindl come up and take Meech's spot as the #6 D until Kronwall is back. We need him to get experience in case of another playoff injury. Meech isn't playoff material.

I have to admit I thought I'd hate Newbury (based off your reviews) but I loved him. He seems like a much better fit on the 4th line then May (except when we need him to beat up douches). I thought Newbury would take some dumb penalties and could score some junk goals but his speed was impressive. He flew out on the ice and made the Phoenix defense look really, really slow. I think he deserves to stay up for a while longer. Sit May and Leino. Play Newbury. Call up Tatar after the World Juniors.
 
December 16, 2009
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ZiggyZach said:

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Our D makes me laugh and cry. I saw the graphic from tonight:

Lidstrom
Rafalski
Stuart
Lebda
janik
Meech

:/
 
December 17, 2009
Votes: -1

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