Tonight the New York Rangers will be rolling to Joe Louis Arena to take on the Detroit Red Wings in Detroit’s second game of the pre-season.

Fresh news out of Detroit, Zetterberg’s not playing due to a flareup in his sore groin.  I’m not freaking out about this.  They’ve got 6 more games after this one before they head to Sweden, and quite frankly, I doubt Zetterberg needs to play all that many to get back into game-shape.  He’ll be fine with 3-4 games, and some more time to let his groin heal.

So here’s the lineup tonight:

Forwards
Bertuzzi-Abdelkader-Cleary
Leino-Filppula-Jason Williams
Ryno-Emmerton-Maltby
Ritola-McGrath-Mursak

Defense
Kronwall-Janik
Lebda-Stuart
Meech-Kindl

Goalies
Osgood
McCollum

I don’t have the lineup for the Rangers, but it sounds like Marian Gaborik is still not ready to play.

MSG is airing the game, which starts at 7:30.  FSDetroit is not showing it.  I’ll be live blogging from the start, so be sure to check back!

Update 2:04pm

Steve Zipay has more on who the Rangers will and will not be icing for tonight’s game:

So, it appears that Henrik Lundqvist and Matt Zaba will share duties in net tonight, and the defense will be Redden,  Rozsival, Girardi, Heikkinen, Semenov, Potter.

Along with Gaborik, Prospal, Kotalik, Staal, Del Zotto, Gilroy and Sanguinetti will not be playing tonight.  I’m a little disappointed, because I’d love to see what Gilroy does faced with an offensive corp like Detroit’s.  But it’d have been almost a moot point anyway, now that Z’s sitting out.  Hopefully Gilroy will play when the Red Wings visit MSG on Monday.

Update 3:49pm

Here are the line combinations for the Rangers tonight:

Higgins-Drury-Callahan
Brashear-Boyle-Voros
Avery-Crowder-Parenteau
Grachev-Anisimov-Lisin

Redden-Rozsival
Heikkinen-Potter
Semenov-Sanguinetti

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