Red Wings at Canucks preview

RED WINGS (18-24-7) at CANUCKS (22-21-6)
4 p.m. ET; SNP, FS-D, NHL.TV

Pettersson, who leads the Canucks and all NHL rookies with 42 points (22 goals, 20 assists) in 38 games, has missed five games since spraining his MCL on Jan. 3. He has been skating since Jan. 11 but was a full participant at practice Saturday for the first time since the injury.
Detroit is 2-1-0 in its past three games after going 1-7-2 in the previous 10.

Players to watch

Red Wings center Dylan Larkin has six points (two goals, four assists) in a three-game point streak, and 25 points (10 goals, 15 assists) in his past 22 games.
Canucks forward Brock Boeser has two goals and one assist in his past three games.

They said it

"We have to make sure we stop shooting ourselves in the foot and giving away games that we played good enough to win. [Friday] night we played good enough to win, we played one of the best teams in the West, probably outplayed them in a lot of areas and we lost (6-4 at the Calgary Flames) because we shot ourselves in the foot for no reason." -- Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill
"There's a good chance I will be playing tomorrow, but I will check in the medical team later and [Sunday] morning and see how I feel and we will make the decision after that." -- Canucks forward Elias Pettersson

Red Wings projected lineup

Tyler Bertuzzi -- Dylan Larkin -- Gustav Nyquist
Thomas Vanek -- Frans Nielsen -- Anthony Mantha
Darren Helm -- Luke Glendening -- Andreas Athanasiou
Christoffer Ehn -- Jacob de la Rose -- Justin Abdelkader
Niklas Kronwall -- Mike Green
Danny DeKeyser -- Nick Jensen
Jonathan Ericsson -- Dennis Cholowski
Jonathan Bernier
Jimmy Howard
Scratched: Martin Frk, Luke Witkowski, Filip Hronek
Injured: Evgeny Svechnikov (knee), Trevor Daley (foot), Michael Rasmussen (hamstring)

Canucks projected lineup

Josh Leivo -- Elias Pettersson -- Brock Boeser
Sven Baertschi -- Bo Horvat -- Markus Granlund
Antoine Roussel -- Brandon Sutter -- Jake Virtanen
Loui Eriksson -- Jay Beagle -- Tyler Motte
Alexander Edler -- Chris Tanev
Ben Hutton -- Troy Stecher
Derrick Pouliot -- Erik Gudbranson
Jacob Markstrom
Thatcher Demko
Scratched: Alex Biega, Nikolay Goldobin, Tim Schaller
Injured:None

Status report

Rasmussen, who has not played since Jan. 4, practiced Saturday and Blashill said he has been medically cleared to return, but he will not play. … Goldobin, who is fourth in Canucks scoring with 23 points (five goals, 18 assists) in 44 games, will likely be scratched for the third straight game.

Stat pack

Nyquist has five points (one goal, four assists) in a three-game point streak. Bertuzzi has five points (three goals, two assists) in his past three games. … Eriksson has four points (two goals, two assists) in his past three games. … Horvat has three assists in his past three games, but has not scored since Dec. 20 (11 games).