Blue Jackets at Red Wings preview

BLUE JACKETS (13-8-2) at RED WINGS (10-10-3)
7:30 p.m. ET; FS-D, FS-O, NHL.TV

Atkinson scored in a 4-2 loss against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday to match the Blue Jackets record of seven games in a row with a goal set by Geoff Sanderson, who did it from Nov. 5-17, 2002.
The Red Wings have lost two in a row (0-1-1) after going 9-2-0 in their previous 11 games. Detroit goalie Jimmy Howard is 6-1-1 with a .937 save percentage in his past eight games.

Players to watch

Atkinson has 13 points (nine goals, four assists) in seven-game goal streak and leads the Blue Jackets with 15 goals and 24 points in 22 games.
Red Wings forward Andreas Athanasiou has three goals in his past three games and scored Detroit's only shootout goal in seven rounds in their 3-2 loss to the Buffalo Sabres on Friday.

They said it

"I thought Zach (Werenski) has played some of his best games in a while, and we want to give him a chance to get back with (Seth) Jones and build his confidence back up." -- Columbus coach John Tortorella on reuniting defensemen Werenski and Jones
"These next two games at home are extremely important. We've played easily good enough to win these last two games, but we didn't. We don't want to start stringing losses together, especially when we are playing here." -- Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill

Blue Jackets projected lineup

Artemi Panarin -- Pierre-Luc Dubois -- Cam Atkinson
Nick Foligno -- Boone Jenner -- Josh Anderson
Brandon Dubinsky -- Alexander Wennberg -- Anthony Duclair
Lukas Sedlak -- Riley Nash -- Markus Hannikainen
Zach Werenski -- Seth Jones
Markus Nutivaara -- Ryan Murray
David Savard -- Scott Harrington
Sergei Bobrovsky
Joonas Korpisalo
Scratched: Dean Kukan, Oliver Bjorkstrand
Injured: None

Red Wings projected lineup

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

Status report

Tortorella juggled all three defensive pairs but left his forward lines intact. … Frk moves back into the lineup after being a healthy scratch for the past two games.

Stat pack

Panarin has eight assists in his past eight games. … Bobrovsky has gone 5-1-0 with a .950 save percentage in his past six games. … Nyquist has one assist in his past six games after a seven-game point streak.