The Detroit Red Wings (8-4) play the fourth game of a five-game road trip tonight with a contest against the San Jose Sharks (4-6-2). Detroit is 2-1 on the trip.<\/p>\n
Where:\u00a0 SAP Center<\/p>\n
When: 8 p.m., ET<\/p>\n
TV\/Radio: FanDuel Sports Network\/97.1 FM<\/p>\n
Odds: Detroit (-1.5, +130), San Jose (+1.5, -155), ESPNBet<\/p>\n
Hot:\u00a0 Alex DeBrincat has scored a goal in each his past four games.<\/p>\n
Not: Jonatan Berggren was minus-3 in the 5-2 loss to Anaheim.<\/p>\n
Spotlight:\u00a0 Marco Kasper slow start was underplayed for a while because Emmitt Finnie started hot. But with Finnie cooling, the Red Wings are hoping Kasper is finally about to become the player he was in the second half of last season.<\/p>\n
Absence: Patrick Kane has missed the last seven games with an undisclosed upper body injury.<\/p>\n
Story: The Red Wings haven\u2019t said who is starting in goal, but Cam Talbot is the likely choice\u2026\u00a0 Detroit\u2019s goaltending now ranks 26th in the league this season with a team save percentage of .886\u2026Moneypuck,com now has Detroit at 42.6% probability to qualify for the playoffs\u2026\u00a0 Patrick Kane is close to returning, but the Red Wings haven\u2019t said when he will return.<\/p>\n
Detroit Projected Lines<\/p>\n
Emmitt Finnie \u2014 Dylan Larkin \u2014 Lucas Raymond<\/p>\n
Alex DeBrincat \u2014 Marco Kasper \u2014 Mason Appleton<\/p>\n
Andrew Copp \u2014 JT Compher \u2014 Jonatan Berggren<\/p>\n
Elmer Soderblom \u2014 Michael Rasmussen \u2014 James van Riemsdyk<\/p>\n
Defense Pairings<\/p>\n
Simon Edvinsson \u2014 Moritz Seider<\/p>\n
Ben Chiarot \u2014 Axel Sandin-Pellikka<\/p>\n
Albert Johansson-Trevor Hamonic<\/p>\n
Subs: Forward Austin Watson, defenseman Jacob Bernard-Docker.<\/p>\n
Goalie<\/p>\n
Cam Talbot\u00a0 (John Gibson backing up)<\/p>\n
San Jose<\/p>\n
Story: The Sharks sit 30th in the NHL\u2019s overall standings, but they have won the three of their last four, including overtime wins against Minnesota and Colorado\u2026 Macklin Celebrini continues to take his game into the superstar level, with 18 points in 12 games. The Red Wings have reason to believe their power play can do some damages against San Jose. The Sharks rank 30th in the NHL with penalty killing efficiency of 65.8%\u2026The Sharks are tied for last with a 4.17 goals-against average. But they only gave up only two goals in each of their last two wins.\u00a0 Injuries: Timothy Liljegren, Ryan Reaves and Nick Leddy (day-to-day)<\/p>\n
Sharks Projected Lines<\/p>\n
Tyler Toffoli \u2014 Macklin Celebrini \u2014 Will Smith<\/p>\n
Philipp Kurashev \u2014 Alexander Wennberg \u2014 William Eklund<\/p>\n
Jeff Skinner \u2014 Michael Misa \u2014 Collin Graf<\/p>\n
Barclay Goodrow \u2014 Patrick Giles \u2014 Ty Dellandrea<\/p>\n
Defense Pairings<\/p>\n
Dmitry Orlov \u2014 Timothy Liljegren<\/p>\n
Mario Ferraro \u2014 John Klingberg<\/p>\n
Shakir Mukhamadullin \u2014 Vincent Desharnais<\/p>\n
Goalies<\/p>\n
Former Red Wings goalie Alex Nedeljkovic\u00a0 (Yaroslav Askarov backing up) (Unconfirmed)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Red Wings (8-4) play the fourth game of a five-game road trip tonight with a contest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,952,575,151961,53436,1042,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-257920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-featured","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-nhl-preview","13":"tag-red-wings","14":"tag-sharks","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}