Starters and scratches:
For Tampa Bay, as Babcock tells 97.1 FM's Ken Kal that the Red Wings had offered Valtteri Filppula a SEVEN YEAR contract before he chose to test free agency:
Brett Connolly-Valtteri Filppula-Teddy Purcell
Victor Hedman-Sami Salo
In goal: Ben Bishop
For Detroit:
Tomas Tatar-Darren Helm-Daniel Alfredsson
Kyle Quincey-Xavier Ouellet
In goal: Jimmy Howard
No Tootoo, Samuelsson, Weiss, Smith, Franzen or Ericsson for Detroit. Franzen's not listed so he must be on the short-term IR with Smith.