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Checking in from Wings' skate: How to stop Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin

By Scott Burnside

Saturday, May 30, 2009

DETROIT -- Having Jonathan Ericsson back in the lineup after he had an emergency appendectomy last week will give Detroit coach Mike Babcock some much-needed flexibility as the Red Wings try to keep Evgeni Malkin and Sidney Crosby under wraps. "He just gives us, the way their centers play 20 minutes a game, you know, basically you need three sets of D to match up against them," Babcock said. Babcock will use Niklas Kronwall and Brad Stuart or Nicklas Lidstrom and Brian Rafalski against Malkin ...

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