Red Wings at Stars preview

RED WINGS (15-17-6) at STARS (19-16-3)
8 p.m. ET; FS-SW, FS-D, NHL.TV

The Red Wings are coming off a 5-2 loss at the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday and are 2-6-2 in their past 10 games. They defeated the Stars 4-2 at Little Caesars Arena on Oct. 28.
The Stars are 3-2-0 in their past five games after losing four straight, and have lost their past two at home. They defeated the Nashville Predators 2-0 on Thursday with goalie Anton Khudobin setting a franchise record with 49 saves in the shutout. Ben Bishop, who didn't play Thursday because a travel issue made him late returning from the Christmas break, will start.

Players to watch

Red Wings forward Dylan Larkin has 15 points (six goals, nine assists) in a 12-game point streak, the longest current run in the NHL. It's the longest by a Red Wings player since Henrik Zetterberg had at least one point in each of the first 17 games of the 2007-08 season.
Stars forward Jamie Benn has six points (three goals, three assists) in his past seven games.

They said it

"Certainly we've been in position to win the last three games, because I think for large parts of the games we played real good hockey. Now you've got to find a way to get it over the top." -- Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill
"We want to see more speed through the middle, and we want Seguin to have more speed on the wing." -- Stars coach Jim Montgomery on Roope Hintz, recalled from Texas of the American Hockey League on Friday, placed at center on the first line with Tyler Seguin moving to the second line

Red Wings projected lineup

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

Stars projected lineup

Jamie Benn -- Roope Hintz -- Alexander Radulov
Devin Shore -- Tyler Seguin -- Denis Gurianov
Blake Comeau -- Radek Faksa -- Tyler Pitlick
Mattias Janmark -- Jason Spezza -- Brett Ritchie
Esa Lindell -- John Klingberg
Miro Heiskanen -- Roman Polak
Julius Honka -- Taylor Fedun
Ben Bishop
Anton Khudobin
Scratched: Valeri Nichushkin
Injured:Stephen Johns (upper body), Connor Carrick (lower body), Marc Methot (lower body), Jason Dickinson (upper body)

Status report

Helm, out since Nov. 17, could return within a week. … Hanzal, who had back surgery in March, was placed on injury reserve with a back injury sustained Sunday against the New York Islanders.

Stat pack

Nielsen will play his 800th NHL game, the most by a Denmark-born player in League history. The Red Wings are 58-for-68 (85.3 percent) in penalty-killing on the road, fourth-best in the NHL. … Dallas has scored 19 first-period goals, fewest in the NHL.