The Wings welcomed Florida into their barn for the penultimate pre-Christmas match for both teams. The Wings were riding high off a 4-1 win over Carolina on Thursday while the cats were reeling from spending that same night getting lit up by the Leafs 6-1.
Roberto Luongo back in net for Florida but no Bjugstad. Jimmy Howard back in net for the Wings, but no Helm, Mantha, DeKeyser, Brian Rafalski OR Andreas Athanasiou. Let’s see how things turned out:
The first 1:56 passes without a whistle and features some nice feeling-out back-and-forth (along with three shots on net.