![]() “Focus on playing the Detroit Red Wings who are a real talented hockey club that have a lot of depth in their lineup and have a lot of tradition of winning. “I look at it as an important game on our schedule,” Carlyle said. Who plays Saturday versus who plays in the Winter Classic doesn’t mean as much as the result in the eyes of Leafs coach Randy Carlyle. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 29 after missing almost a month with an oblique strain. That’s true for the Leafs as well, given that centre Tyler Bozak is eligible to come off long-term injured reserve Dec. It sure is something special this year with the Winter Classic coming up, “It’s a different team than what you might see in a week or two,” Reimer said. With some players nearing returns, like Detroit defenceman Danny DeKeyser, Toronto goaltender James Reimer cautioned that this really isn’t a straight preview of the Winter Classic. Some of it is turnover but it’s also partially the result of injuries that have ravaged the Red Wings, who are missing a handful of regulars including Henrik Zetterberg (back), Johan Franzen (concussion), Justin Abdelkader (concussion) and Jimmy Howard (knee). ![]() ![]() One of those is now-Red Wings goaltender Jonas Gustavsson, who joins just seven Detroit players who are still around from that game. Gunnarsson is one of just nine Leafs players who were in uniform for that 2012 meeting and are expected to play Saturday night. “It’ll be good, especially probably on the special teams, how they play their power play and PK and what we can do to take advantage of that,” Leafs defenceman Carl Gunnarsson said. ![]()
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