Red Wings at Panthers preview

RED WINGS (24-34-10) at PANTHERS (29-27-12)
5 p.m. ET; FS-F, FS-D, NHL.TV

Barkov has 22 points (10 goals, 12 assists) in the past 12 games, including a franchise-record five assists in Florida's 6-2 victory against the Minnesota Wild on Friday. Huberdeau has 20 points (eight goals, 12 assists) in the past 12 games, including a goal and three assists against Minnesota.
The Panthers are nine points behind the Columbus Blue Jackets for the second wild into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Eastern Conference.
The Red Wings are 1-6-3 in their past 10 games, including a 3-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday.
Detroit is 15th in the Eastern Conference with 58 points, six more than the Ottawa Senators.

Players to watch

Red Wings forward Anthony Mantha has three goals and six assists in the past eight games.
Panthers defenseman Keith Yandle tied Florida's record for defensemen with his 34th power-play point Friday; he's three shy of the overall team record set by Olli Jokinen in 2005-06.

They said it

"He's one of those players that even when he's not at his best - and I didn't think he was (against Tampa Bay) - he can still produce offense because of the fact he's good around the net and he's smart and he's cagey." -- Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill on forward Thomas Vanek
"I'm playing him. He's a young guy, he's like the rest of those young guys in that room who deserve to play at this time of year." -- Panthers coach Bob Boughner on goalie Sam Montembeault

Red Wings projected lineup

Tyler Bertuzzi -- Andreas Athanasiou -- Anthony Mantha
Thomas Vanek -- Frans Nielsen -- Filip Zadina
Justin Abdelkader -- Luke Glendening -- Darren Helm
Christoffer Ehn -- Jacob de la Rose -- Michael Rasmussen
Danny DeKeyser -- Filip Hronek
Niklas Kronwall -- Madison Bowey
Jonathan Ericsson -- Trevor Daley
Jimmy Howard
Jonathan Bernier
Scratched: Luke Witkowski
Injured: Mike Green (virus), Dylan Larkin (neck)

Panthers projected lineup

Jonathan Huberdeau -- Aleksander Barkov -- Evgenii Dadonov
Frank Vatrano -- Vincent Trocheck -- Mike Hoffman
Jamie McGinn -- Riley Sheahan -- Troy Brouwer
Dryden Hunt -- Henrik Borgstrom -- Jayce Hawryluk
Mike Matheson - Aaron Ekblad
Keith Yandle -- MacKenzie Weegar
Mark Pysyk -- Josh Brown
Sam Montembeault
James Reimer
Scratched: Josh Brown, Roberto Luongo
Injured: Colton Sceviour (wrist), Denis Malgin (lower body)

Status report

Larkin has missed the past two games. Green is out for the rest of the season. … Reimer served as the backup to Montembeault against Minnesota after missing the previous five games with an upper-body injury.

Stat pack

Helm's next goal will be the 100th of his NHL career. … Detroit has not scored more than one power-play goal in a game since Nov. 1, a span of 55 games. … Barkov will play his 400th NHL game. … Florida's victory against Minnesota on Friday ended a streak of seven consecutive one-goal games.