Michael Rasmussen and Givani Smith have been dealing with what Blashill described as day-to-day injuries. Dylan Larkin, Robby Fabbri, Adam Erne and Vladislav Namestnikov also did not play Saturday, preventing the team from having a “dress rehearsal” in the exhibition finale.
I was bummed about Rasmussen getting hurt because he was really good in that first preseason game for the Wings and then we didn’t get to see anything beyond that.
This is the roster as it was right after the Wings sent Pickard down yesterday. It’s got 31 players on it. The two goalies left are the obvious starters.