The Detroit Red Wings (8-3) play the third game of a five-game road trip tonight with a contest against the Anaheim Ducks (5-3-1). Detroit is 2-0 on the trip.<\/p>\n
Where:\u00a0 The Honda Center<\/p>\n
When: 10 p.m., ET<\/p>\n
TV\/Radio: FanDuel Sports Network\/97.1 FM<\/p>\n
Odds: Detroit (+1.5,-275), Anaheim Ducks (-1.5, +200), ESPNBet<\/p>\n
Hot: Defenseman Axel Sandin Pellikka continues to settle in with two assists and six shots on goal in Detroit\u2019s three-game winning streak.<\/p>\n
Not: Lucas Raymond and Dylan Larkin didn\u2019t register a point against the Kings, and were on the ice for two goals-against. Larkin is off to one of the best individual starts in Red Wings player history, but he had no shots on goal against Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
Spotlight: After going eight games without a goal, Alex DeBrincat has netted a goal in each of the last three games.<\/p>\n
Absence: Patrick Kane has missed the last six games with an undisclosed upper body injury.<\/p>\n
Story: John Gibson will play against Anaheim in his first trip there since being traded to Detroit. He played 12 seasons in Anaheim\u2026 The Red Wings (8-3) are tied for the NHL\u2019s 2nd-best record and are coming off a 4-3 shootout road win against Los Angeles\u2026Detroit was 4-for-4 on the penalty kill against Los Angeles. The Red Wings are tied for seventh on the PKA (87.7%). They were 32nd last season at 70,1%. Injury: Patrick Kane is close to returning, but it won\u2019t be tonight.<\/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
John Gibson\u00a0 (Cam Talbot backing up)<\/p>\n
Anaheim <\/p>\n
Story: The Ducks will be playing their first game since coming off a 3-1-1 road trip. They scored 18 goals in the last four games of that trip \u2026The improving Ducks are scoring 3.44 goals per game and giving up 3.44 goals per game \u2026 \u00a0Injuries: Chris Kreider, Radko Gudas and Mikael Granlund are all day-to-day. Ryan Strome is on IR.<\/p>\n
Ducks Projected Lines<\/p>\n
Nikita Nesterenko \u2014 Leo Carlsson \u2014 Troy Terry<\/p>\n
Cutter Gautheir \u2014 Mason McTavish \u2014 Beckett Sennecke<\/p>\n
Ross Johnston \u2014 Ryan Poehling \u2014\u00a0 Alex Killorn<\/p>\n
Frank Vatrano\u00a0 \u2014 Jansen Harkins \u2014 Sam Colangelo<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
Defense Pairings<\/p>\n
Jackson Lacombe \u2014 Drew Helleson<\/p>\n
Olen Zellweger \u2014 Jacob Trouba<\/p>\n
Pavel Mintyukov \u2014 Ian Moore<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
Goalies<\/p>\n
Lukas Dostral (Former Red Wings goalie Petr Mrazek backing up)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Red Wings (8-3) play the third game of a five-game road trip tonight with a contest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,6264,93,23586,23587],"class_list":{"0":"post-32598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news","11":"tag-ducks","12":"tag-featured","13":"tag-preview-nhl","14":"tag-red-wings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}