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Should Draper Play?
by Paul on 06/02/09 at 07:12 AM ET
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from Michael Rosenberg of the Detroit Free Press,
As long as the Wings are winning, Draper will be watching. Babcock said he was reluctant to shuffle his lineup just to get Draper back in there. Babcock is not going to bench Justin Abdelkader or Darren Helm, who are playing better than some of their more famous teammates. Babcock could sit Ville Leino or Kirk Maltby again, but he apparently feels the team is better with them.
It is not entirely fair to say Abdelkader and Helm have surpassed Draper. First of all, while Draper is healthy enough to play, he is not 100%—he said Monday his groin injury is supposed to take two weeks to heal, and he “condensed it to seven, eight days because of the time of year.”
And second, it’s not like Draper suddenly was benched. Babcock has a good thing going and doesn’t want to tinker with it.
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