Zetterberg Out At Least Two Weeks

Red Wings’ general manager Ken Holland announced today that Henrik Zetterberg will miss at least two weeks with a torn disc in his back. Here are the bullet points…

Per Ken Holkand, #RedWings Henrik Zetterberg out minimum 2 weeks with herniated disc
— Helene St. James (@HeleneStJames) December 3, 2013

Looks will Franzen will return to center to replace Zetterberg on line with Nyquist and Bertuzzi. Other lines the same in practice.
— Ansar Khan (@AnsarKhanMLive) December 3, 2013

Zetterberg said he knew something was wrong the last couple of games. Same disc that bothered him before. Evaluate again in couple weeks.
— Nick Cotsonika (@cotsonika) December 3, 2013

Henrik Zetterberg (hernia) said he doesn’t expect even to practice for 2 weeks. #RedWings
— Helene St. James (@HeleneStJames) December 3, 2013

It hurts my soul to think about how bad of a position having both Zetterberg and Pavel Datsyuk out so I’m not going to try to explain how to the team will deal with it. Instead, I’m just going to toss a guess out there that the three alternate captains on Wednesday will be Niklas Kronwall (as expected), Daniel Alfredsson (since he’s been wearing Datsyuk’s letter) and Johan Franzen.(getting that third A).