The Detroit Red Wings kick off a brand new season tonight against the Nashville Predators at Bridgestone Arena, though the playing status of their fastest forward hasn’t been fully confirmed yet.
Andreas Athanasiou will officially be a game-time-decision tonight according to head coach Jeff Blashill.
https://twitter.com/NHL_Lineups/status/1180536008837758976
He did participate in the morning skate, so that’s hopefully a good sign! He had previously missed several practices dealing with an injury suffered in a preseason game when he crashed into the boards.
Here are the line combinations they practiced with this morning.
Forwards
Bertuzzi-Larkin-Mantha
Hirose-Athanasiou-Glendening
Erne-Nielsen-Filppula
Helm/Ehn-de la Rose-Abdelkader
Defense
DeKeyser-Hronek
Nemeth-Green
Cholowski-Daley
(Ericsson-Bowey)
Howard starting
Bernier
Howard
Bernier
