This story will be updated after the morning skates<\/p>\n
The Detroit Red Wings (13-11-1) play a road game today against the Boston Bruins (14-12). Neither the Red Wings, nor Bruins, are in a playoff position. Both own .540 points percentages.<\/p>\n
Where:<\/strong>\u00a0 TD Garden<\/p>\n When<\/strong>: 7 p.m., ET<\/p>\n TV\/Radio<\/strong>: FanDuel Sports Network\/97.1 FM<\/p>\n Odds<\/strong>: Detroit (-1.5, +175),\u00a0 Boston (+1.5, -225), ESPNBet<\/p>\n Hot<\/strong>: Lucas Raymond owns a four-game points streak (1-3-4) and shows 14 points (3-11-14) since the Chicago game on Nov. 9.<\/p>\n Not<\/strong>:\u00a0 Defenseman Albert Johansson is minus-11 in his past 11 games. He hasn\u2019t had a plus-game since Oct. 22. His partners have contributed to his string of minus games.<\/p>\n Spotlight<\/strong>: Larkin has six goals in 10 games dating to Nov. 9 vs. Chicago (6-3-9). He leads the Red Wings in points with 27 (14-13-27).<\/p>\n Story:\u00a0<\/strong> The Red Wings are coming off a 6-3 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning\u2026Coach Todd McLellan\u2019s team has lost three in a row, and four of its last five. Detroit has surrendered 21 goals in those four losses. This isn\u2019t out of character for this team. It has given up four or more goals 12 times in 25 games (Detroit\u2019s GAA has risen to 3.44 goals per game. Only six teams owns a worse GAA\u2026The Red Wings power play (22.5%) ranks 12th and their penalty kill (79.7%) is 19th.<\/p>\n Detroit Projected Lines<\/p>\n Emmitt Finnie \u2014 Dylan Larkin \u2014 Lucas Raymond<\/p>\n Alex DeBrincat \u2014 Marco Kasper \u2014 Patrick Kane<\/p>\n Elmer Soderblom \u2014 JT Compher \u2014 Mason Appleton<\/p>\n Nate Danielson \u2014 Andrew Copp \u2014 James van Riemsdyk<\/p>\n Defense Pairings<\/strong><\/p>\n Simon Edvinssson \u2014 Moritz Seider<\/p>\n Ben Chiarot \u2014 Axel Sandin-Pellikka<\/p>\n Albert Johansson \u2014 Jacob Bernard-Docker<\/p>\n Subs: Jonatan Berggren, Travis Hamonic<\/p>\n Goalies<\/strong><\/p>\n Cam Talbot\u00a0 (John Gibson backing up).<\/p>\n Boston Bruins<\/p>\n Story<\/strong>: This is the first game of a home-and-home between the Bruins and Red Wings. The Bruins will play Tuesday in Detroit\u2026 Boston fell 6-2 to the New York Rangers Friday and have lost three of its last four games. Joonas Korpisalo played goal against the Rangers, meaning Jeremy Swayman is the likely starter tonight. The Bruins have the league\u2019s fifth-best power play (24.7). The team is 8-5 at home\u2026 David Pastrnak didn\u2019t play against the Rangers. He\u2019s currently listed as day-to-day with an undisclosed injury. Injured: Charlie McAvoy (upper body), Jordan Harris (ankle surgery), Viktor Arvidsson (lower body), Matej Blumel (lower body), Pastrnak (unknown), Pavel Zacha (undisclosed)<\/p>\n Projected Lines<\/p>\n Alex Steeves \u2014 Elias Lindholm \u2014 Morgan Geekie<\/p>\n Casey Mittlestadt \u2014 Marat Khusnutdinov \u2013 Georgii Merkulov<\/p>\n Tanner Jeannot \u2014 Fraser Minten \u2014 Mark Kastelic<\/p>\n Riley Tufte \u2014 Sean Kuraly \u2014 Michael Eyssimont<\/p>\n Defense Pairings<\/p>\n Nikita Zadorov \u2014 Jonathan Aspirot<\/p>\n Hampus Lindholm \u2014 Henri Jokiharju<\/p>\n Mason Lohrei \u2014 Andrew Peeke<\/p>\n Jeremy Swayman (Joonas Korpisalo backing up) Unconfirmed<\/p>\n Scratched:<\/strong>\u00a0Jeffrey Viel<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This story will be updated after the morning skates The Detroit Red Wings (13-11-1) play a road game…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":413085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[32072,1322,293,194071,10144,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-413084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-bruins","9":"tag-featured","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-nhl-preview","12":"tag-red-wings","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115633655028082895","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}