Game Day Thread: Red Wings @ Bruins

Didn’t we just do this?

Tonight, the Bruins get to once again play in their own barn, where they will host the annoying Detroit Red Wings

The Bruins most recently faced the New York Islanders. The Isles play a bit of a heavy game, and there was a little hitting that happened. Most annoying is the hit on David Krecji – no call, but it did cost him at least one tooth.

Here’s the hit that knocked Krejci's teeth loose pic.twitter.com/BjUHjAjRsW

— Pete Blackburn (@PeteBlackburn) November 30, 2018

But fortunately for #46, former teammate Johnny Boychuck was in the neighborhood and politely retrieved the mislaid chicklet.

Johnny Boychuk picked up David Krejci’s lost teeth and hand-delivered them to the Bruins bench pic.twitter.com/b9f1B3jBoq

— Pete Blackburn (@PeteBlackburn) November 30, 2018

The Bruins did leave the game with a 2-1 shootout win. This is good timing for a win since it was a banner night – literally. On that night the Bruins retired Rick Middleton’s jersey number #16.

It was a memorable Thursday night at TD Garden.

📸 Check out 16 of the best photos from Rick Middleton's number retirement ceremony: https://t.co/AYwsewndgT

— Boston Bruins (@NHLBruins) November 30, 2018

On other notes, the Bruins gave prospect Jan Kovar a look at practice on Wednesday – he had been on a PTO with the P-Bruins which just ended. Unclear whether the club will return with a longer offer, and it is rumored that he is sitting on multiple offers from clubs in Europe. Not quite on the injury train is Ryan Donato – who lost 5 teeth after “eating a biscuit” earlier in the week. He has been brought back from the AHL to the roster on the big club.

And happy birthday to Noel Acciari

btw…Happy birthday, Rhode Island's own Noel Acciari of the @NHLBruins & former @FriarsHockey player!! https://t.co/lfzhHTWLoP

— RI Hockey Hall of Fame (@RIHHOF) December 1, 2018

Let’s do some lines.
The Bruins still have P-Bruin callups Jakub Forsbacka-Karlsson, Colby Cavé, Connor Clifton and Jeremy Lauzon as well as the return of Ryan Donato. Colby Cave seems to still be ready to center the 63–88 pair. Carlo will appears to be ready to make his return today. This would leave Clifton as the odd man out on defense, but Fluto reports that Kampfer is the healthy scratch.

Bruins Forward Lines
Brad Marchand	Colby Cave, man	David Pastrnak
Danton Heinen	David Krejci	Jake DeBrusk
Ryan Donato	Joakim Nordstrom	Noel Acciari
Chris Wagner	Sean Kuraly	David Backes
Bruins Defensive pairs
Torey Krug	#75 Connor Clifton
John Moore	Brandon Carlo
Matt Grzelcyk	#79 Jeremy Lauzon
Bruins Goaltending
#40 Tuukka Rask	(#41 Jaroslav Halak)

Tonight’s opponent are the Detroit Red Wings. Detroit has feasted recently on OT situations, allowing them to creep back into a resprectable place in the standings, and managed to beat the Bruins in OT last time they met. Martin Frk was replaced on Friday with Cristoffer Ehn. Will we see additional players Adam Qwt, Bob Ghk, and Charlie Rtgh? I mean FFS, these aren’t syllables – heck, the aren’t even phoenyms. Trevor Daley left Friday’s game early and will not be seen tonight. (h/t Daily Faceoff):

Red Wings Forwards
Justin Abdelkader — Dylan Larkin — Anthony Mantha
Gustav Nyquist — Frans Nielsen — Andreas Athanasiou
Tyler Bertuzzi — Luke Glendening — Michael Rasmussen
Christoffer Ehn — Jacob De La Rose — Thomas Vanek

Red Wings Defense
Niklas Kronwall — Mike Green
Dan DeKeyser — Dennis Cholowski
Jonathan Ericsson — Nick Jensen

Red Wings Goaltending
Jimmy Howard
(Jonathan Bernier)