By Joe Haggerty
CSNNE.com
BOSTONNo reason to mess with success when you have the mighty Detroit Red Wings coming to town, and so the Bruins will go with the same group of skaters that tossed around the Habs on Wednesday nights Fight Night.Tyler Seguin will get scratched for the second consecutive game and Mark Stuart will be scratched for the eighth straight game in favor of Zach Hamill and Adam McQuaid, respectively. But its also expected that Tuukka Rask could get the start in goal for the rare Friday night game at the Garden."He has a ton of talent," coach Claude Julien said of Seguin. "He hasn't had the benefit of other players, such as Taylor Hall in Edmonton, who has played for Memorial Cup teams and so forth. We all know the skill set is high and potential is very high."His game may have slipped lately, but he doesn't have the privilege of playing on a rebuilding team where you can keep throwing guys like that out there. He has that time to be patient with that." Steve Kampfer donned No. 5 when he played youth and high school hockey in Michigan in honor of Niklas Lidstrom after watching the silky smooth Wings defenseman growing up a Detroit fan, and essentially said that the Joe Louis Arena feels like his own backyard.Its fun to play your childhood idol, but you want to play him hard and hopefully someday be better than he is, said Kampfer of Lidstrom. You come to play your game, youre coming to play your teams game and when you do that youre helping the team. Thats what were trying to do tonight, and hopefully we can shut these guys down. Theyre a great team, great players with a lot of Stanley Cups, so its going to be a game where were going to have to try to make them play our style of hockey.The Michigan University grad played in The Joe countless times over the years as a youth player and as a member of the Wolverines in some pretty epic CCHA battles, and is looking forward to playing in front of more than 50 friends and relatives in Detroit on Sunday afternoon. Kampfer said hes already got 30 confirmed for the game, and hes making arrangements for another 20 on Saturdays off day.The bottom line is, its a big game for Kampfer after earning favorite son status as a four-year member of the Wolverines hockey teamand now as a young NHL player making his way as a puck-moving defenseman. Its definitely an exciting couple of days. Youve got to look forward to tonight. Its going to be fun, but weve got to play our game and play strong, said Kampfer, who snapped a seven game scoreless stretch with an assist in Bostons 8-6 win over the Canadiens. I grew up with Steve Yzerman, Sergei Federov, Brendan Shanahan . . . you know. The Russian Five days with Lidstrom, Chelios, Konstantinov. All of those guys. I grew up watching and idolizing them, so this is going to be a lot of fun. It's a big homecoming for a couple of Hockey East heroes starring for the Red Wings as Patrick Eaves (Boston College) and Jimmy Howard (University of Maine) are both having solid seasons in Detroit. Eaves hasn't had a goal since Jan. 20 against the St. Louis Blues, but that could all change against the Bruins. Eaves is still tied for fourth on Detroit with 13 goals scored this season, and has fired up as many red lamps as Pavel Datsyuk this season.
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