Red Wings at Coyotes preview

RED WINGS (2-1-0) at COYOTES (0-2-1)
10 p.m. ET; FS-A, FS-D; NHL.TV

Red Wings defenseman Niklas Kronwall will make his season debut after missing the first three games with a groin injury. Kronwall will play on the top pair with Mike Green. Defenseman Danny DeKeyser will not play after sustaining a lower-body injury in the second period of a 4-2 loss at the Dallas Stars on Tuesday.
Coyotes forward Jordan Martinook will return after missing a 5-2 loss at the Vegas Golden Knights on Tuesday because of a lower-body injury. Defenseman Kevin Connauton (lower body) won't play.

Players to watch

Green leads the Red Wings with six points (six assists). He had two assists against Dallas and had four assists in a season-opening 4-2 win against the Minnesota Wild on Oct. 5.
Coyotes rookie Clayton Keller has one goal, two points and 10 shots on goal in his first three games. His shot total ranks second among rookies (Charles Hudon, Montreal Canadiens; 16) and his average ice time (20:28) ranks first among rookies.

They said it

"You're facing a team that you know is going to be absolutely 100 percent ready so you'd better be ready from the drop of the puck to compete like it takes to win." -- Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill
"A couple guys are lacking confidence, but you can't buy confidence at a store. If you prepare right, you watch video, you work out, you eat right, you do all the right things, that's where you get your confidence." -- Coyotes coach Rick Tocchet on confidence level

Red Wings projected lineup

Tomas Tatar -- Henrik Zetterberg -- Gustav Nyquist
Anthony Mantha -- Dylan Larkin -- Martin Frk
Justin Abdelkader -- Frans Nielsen -- Darren Helm
David Booth -- Luke Glendening -- Riley Sheahan
Niklas Kronwall -- Mike Green
Jonathan Ericsson -- Trevor Daley
Xavier Ouellet -- Nick Jensen
Jimmy Howard
Peter Mrazek
Scratched: Luke Witkowski
Injured:Danny DeKeyser (lower body)

Coyotes projected lineup

Max Domi -- Derek Stepan -- Clayton Keller
Lawson Crouse -- Christian Dvorak -- Christian Fischer
Mario Kempe -- Brad Richardson -- Tobias Rieder
Jordan Martinook -- Nick Cousins -- Anthony Duclair
Niklas Hjalmarsson -- Jason Demers
Oliver Ekman-Larsson -- Adam Clendening
Alex Goligoski -- Luke Schenn
Antti Raanta
Louis Domingue
Scratched:Emerson Etem
Injured:Jakob Chychrun (knee), Brendan Perlini (upper body), Kevin Connauton (lower body)
Suspended: Zac Rinaldo

Status report

Clendening, who was signed to a one-year, $650,000 contract on July 1, will make his Coyotes debut. ... Etem was recalled from Tucson of the American Hockey League on Wednesday but will be scratched with Cousins returning.

Stat pack

The Red Wings are 14-5-1 with two ties all-time in the regular season at Gila River Arena. … Raanta is 2-2-0 against Detroit with a .947 save percentage in his career … Ekman-Larsson has a point in six of his past seven games against Detroit (two goals, seven points).