Red Wings at Blue Jackets preview

RED WINGS (30-38-11) at BLUE JACKETS (44-29-6)
7 p.m. ET; FS-O, FS-D, NHL.TV

A Blue Jackets win and a loss of any kind by the Florida Panthers against the Nashville Predators on Tuesday (7:30 p.m. ET; FS-F, FS-TN, NHL.TV) would clinch a berth for the Blue Jackets for the second consecutive season.
Columbus could also clinch with an overtime/shootout loss and a Panthers loss in regulation.
A win would give the Blue Jackets 96 points, tying them with the Pittsburgh Penguins for second place in the Metropolitan Division. However the Blue Jackets would remain in third place based on the Penguins leading the regulation/overtime win (ROW) tiebreaker 43-38.
The Red Wings have won three straight games in regulation for the first time this season. They have been eliminated from Stanley Cup Playoffs contention.

Players to watch

Red Wings forward Dylan Larkin has nine points (five goals, four assists) in his past seven games.
Blue Jackets forward Cam Atkinson has 10 points (five goals, five assists) in a seven-game point streak.

They said it

"Hopefully they're real tired and slow and we've got lots of jump. That being said, with what they have at stake, I don't think they'll allow themselves to be tired." -- Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill, on the Blue Jackets playing for the first time since ending a three-game western Canada trip Saturday
"It's been tough. We win, then Philly wins. New Jersey keeps winning and Florida was winning. It puts a lot of pressure on everyone." -- Blue Jackets defenseman Jack Johnson

Red Wings projected lineup

Tyler Bertuzzi -- Henrik Zetterberg -- Gustav Nyquist
Darren Helm -- Dylan Larkin -- Anthony Mantha
Justin Abdelkader -- Frans Nielsen -- Andreas Athanasiou
Evgeny Svechnikov -- Luke Glendening -- Martin Frk
Jonathan Ericsson -- Trevor Daley
Danny DeKeyser -- Nick Jensen
Niklas Kronwall --
Joe Hicketts
Jimmy Howard
Tom McCollum
Scratched: Luke Witkowski, Xavier Ouellet, David Booth
Injured:Mike Green (neck), Jared Coreau (illness)

Blue Jackets projected lineup

Artemi Panarin -- Pierre-Luc Dubois -- Cam Atkinson
Boone Jenner -- Alex Wennberg -- Thomas Vanek
Sonny Milano -- Brandon Dubinsky -- Oliver Bjorkstrand
Matt Calvert -- Mark Letestu -- Markus Hannikainen
Zach Werenski -- Seth Jones
Ian Cole -- David Savard
Ryan Murray -- Jack Johnson
Sergei Bobrovsky
Joonas Korpisalo
Scratched:Scott Harrington, Taylor Chorney, Dean Kukan, Alex Broadhurst, Eric Robinson
Injured: Nick Foligno (lower body), Lukas Sedlak (upper body), Josh Anderson (knee), Markus Nutivaara (upper body)

Status report

Coreau was scheduled to start in goal but has the flu. McCollum was called up from Grand Rapids of the American Hockey League. … Johnson, a healthy scratch the past five games, will replace Nutivaara.

Stat pack

Abdelkader is one goal from 100 in the NHL. … DeKeyser is one point from 100 in the NHL. … Panarin has 14 points (five goals, nine assists) in his past seven games.