Any slim hope yesterday that Jack Johnson would be a placeholder for a returning Brian Dumoulin were pretty much eliminated on practice Tuesday.
D looks different today
Guentzel-Crosby-Rust
McCann-Malkin-Hornqvist
Simon-Bjugstad-Kessel
Blueger-Cullen-Wilson/ZAR
Maatta-Letang
Johnson-Schultz
Pettersson-Gudbranson
Dumoulin-Trotman— Jonathan Bombulie (@BombulieTrib) April 9, 2019In fact, though nothing is official or surely will be shared until absolutely necessary, if anything it looks more like Dumoulin will be out for Game 1 than playing.
This is disappointing but to be expected. Unfortunately the Johnson - Justin Schultz pair has been hemmed in their own zone way too much (45.