Thursday skate update; lineup changes

Wayne Simmonds and Ryan Smyth will play tonight, as will Andrei Loktionov, as the first-line left winger with Alexei Ponikarovsky coming out of the lineup. There will also be some shifting on defense…

Loktionov-Kopitar-Brown
Smyth-Stoll-Williams
Clifford-Lewis-Simmonds
Richardson-Handzus-Westgarth

Mitchell-Doughty
Johnson-Scuderi
Martinez-Greene

Quick

More on all this, and other notes and quotes, to come…

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