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Bruins coming off loss, Marchand suspension

Tuesday, 01.10.2012 / 12:46 PM

By Matt Kalman - NHL.com Correspondent / At the Rink blog

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Bruins coming off loss, Marchand suspension
BOSTON -- The Boston Bruins and Winnipeg Jets have already staged two tooth-and-nail matchup during their split season series so far in 2011-12.

The Bruins won their home game, 4-2, with an empty-netter sealing the deal, while the Jets hung on for a 2-1 victory in their building. Tonight at the TD Garden, the Jets might have to face a Bruins team with a bit more anger over both its loss to Vancouver on Saturday and the five-game suspension handed out to forward Brad Marchand.

"Well, we hope it's not a bad thing and they get mad at us," Winnipeg coach Claude Noel said after his team's morning skate. "They have a good team, they play well and they've got a lot of depth. And we've got enough to worry about with them as an opponent that we're going to have to get our emotional level up because they play hard, they're hard to play against, they don't give you much."

Noel said that forward Tim Stapleton, who missed Winnipeg's win in Buffalo on Saturday with the flu, might return tonight. But it's doubtful forward Alexander Burmistrov will play because of a lower-body injury that already cost him one game. Burmistrov said he felt better today than he did over the weekend after taking the morning skate.

With Marchand out, the Bruins should shift their lines around. Benoit Pouliot figures to move onto left wing next to Patrice Bergeron and Tyler Seguin, while Zach Hamill will get into the lineup and should center Chris Kelly and Rich Peverley.

The goaltending duos for both teams left the ice at the same time with their respective squads, so we won't know the official goaltending matchup until pregame warm-ups. Here are the projected lineups:

BRUINS
Milan Lucic - David Krejci - Nathan Horton
Benoit Pouliot - Patrice Bergeron - Tyler Seguin
Chris Kelly - Zach Hamill - Rich Peverley
Daniel Paille - Gregory Campbell - Shawn Thornton

Zdeno Chara - Johnny Boychuk
Dennis Seidenberg - Joe Corvo
Andrew Ference - Adam McQuaid

Tim Thomas
Tuukka Rask

JETS
Evander Kane - Bryan Little - Blake Wheeler
Andrew Ladd - Nik Antropov - Eric Fehr
Kyle Wellwood - Patrice Cormier - Antti Miettinen
Tanner Glass - Jim Slater - Chris Thorburn

Tobias Enstrom - Zach Bogosian
Johnny Oduya - Ron Hainsey
Mark Stuart - Randy Jones

Ondrej Pavelec
Chris Mason

 

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