from Dana Wakiji of the Wings' website,

The Wings are doing a few different things with their power-play units.

Anthony Mantha is with Henrik Zetterberg, Gustav Nyquist, Justin Abdelkader and Niklas Kronwall but Abdelkader is serving as the net-front guy.

"I've been reticent to move Anthony off the net because I wanted to make sure we trained him to be a good net-front presence, not just on the PP, but 5-on-5," Blashill said. "I think he's done a pretty good job of that. He leads us in power-play goals and I think he's probably learned somewhat that you get some free goals if you're in front of the net, it's an easy way to get free goals.

"But now we also have in Abby and Bert, two other real good net-front presence type guys, so I also want to try to utilize Anthony's shot as a weapon. He's got a real good shot. On the net, you can't really utilize it, so let's put him on the flank and see how good he is at. He was good in the American League, he was good in junior, that doesn't always translate to the NHL but certainly that shot is a big weapon that we want to use."

On the second power-play unit, Frk is with Larkin, Athanasiou, Bertuzzi and Trevor Daley as Mike Green remains out. "

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