The Red Wings are back in town after their weekend road trip to California ended with one point gained in the two-game swing through the greater Los Angeles area and they’re preparing to welcome the Toronto Maple Leafs into the LCA tomorrow night. While Detroit looks to earn their first win of the season against a team that’s looking to compete atop the Atlantic Division, we’ve got some updates from practice worth sharing:
#RedWings flipped Nyquist and Abdelkader.
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Helm-Ehn-Glendening (Frk taking turns here)— Dana Wakiji (@Dwakiji) October 10, 2018Strategy-wise, I like the idea of moving Abdelkader off that Vanek-Athanasiou line and moving Nyquist onto it, as the chemistry between Abby and AA has been blow-up-the-laboratory bad so far through three games and that line needed a change.