They should come up with a word for that.

Eat your heart out, Mebdeech

Extremely spectacular news today from The Ansar. Too bad he (or almost certainly, his editor) still doesn't know the difference between Niklas and Nicklas.

Guess what? You'll never guess. There's a distinct chance that in the next ten or so days, Johan Franzen will be the only Red Wing injured. Well, because we're the unluckiest team ever, there will probably be some new injuries. But of the current players injured, there's a very distinct chance that Franzen will be the only one injured. Dig this:

• Niklas Kronwall is set to return to the lineup tomorrow. Confirming speculation that I will be booking it back to my apartment after my class gets out at 7:40.
• Jason "This is only significant because he's better on the powerplay than Derek Meech" Williams is looking at a Friday return against Nashville. (thanks to @thenewthomas for bringing to my attention that Meech will leave the lineup tomorrow for Kronwall).
  
• So is Tomas Holmstrom, but based on the face that they also mentioned Sunday's game against Pittsburgh probably means no for Friday. But Wings fans aren't too picky anymore.
• Franzen isn't in the immediate future but seems to be really set on returning before the Olympics. I don't care as long as he's 100% because I would hate nothing more than seeing him come back for two games and tweaking something when he could have an additional three weeks of rest.
• Get this: I solved a mystery. For the past year or so, I've noticed that this guy named Andreas Lilja is listed on our roster. I just wasn't sure who he was. Apparently, he's been having some headaches. Mick dropped a huge bomb on Saturday that Lilja could return next week. Ken Holland gave him the old, "well, nothing's changed" and Wings fans chalked it up to Mick's in-game beverage habits. However, apparently what Ken Holland didn't say was that Lilja has been thirteen days without headaches, and doctors will clear him if he makes it fourteen days. Pray to your deity, sacrifice something, do whatever you can to make sure Lilja makes it through this last day. Don't make any annoying loud noises either, just in case. He works out like crazy and practices every day. Is 1-2 weeks an unreasonable time frame if he gets cleared by doctors?
  

Now the questions arise as to what Detroit can do to make room for this. They have 21 players on the active roster. Kronwall makes 22. Holmstrom and Williams makes 24, putting Detroit one over the limit. The easy solution is sending Justin Abdelkader down to the AHL, but he's 12th in the league in hits. He's looked very good at times, although a little shot of confidence (although Grand Rapids kinda sucks right now) from the AHL might help his offensive game. Other options include trading Derek Meech or Ville Leino or biting the bullet and sending Bray May down to the AHL. Doesn't seem like something Detroit would do, but the bottom line is Abdelkader is one of the team's best 12 forwards and at least needs to be in the playoff roster.

Thoughts? Scenarios? It's just so nice to get all this unbad news at once.