Red Wings at Senators preview

RED WINGS (1-0-0) at SENATORS (0-0-1)
7 p.m. ET; SN1, FS-D, NHL.TV

The two-time Norris Trophy winner had surgery to repair torn tendons in his left foot June 14.
Goaltender Craig Anderson will start for Ottawa, which opened its season with a 5-4 shootout loss to the Washington Capitals on Thursday in which they were unable to hold 3-1 and 4-3 leads in the third period.
Goaltender Jimmy Howard is expected to start for the Red Wings, who won their season opener 4-2 against the Minnesota Wild on Thursday in the first game played at Little Caesars Arena.

Players to watch

Red Wings defenseman Mike Green sparked the offense against the Wild with four assists, two on the power play, and played 23:41.
Senators center Derick Brassard had a goal and two assists in the opener. He had surgery on his right shoulder to repair a torn labrum June 6 and didn't play in a preseason game.

They said it

"Power plays win or lose games, so we knew we had to get better on the power play. We've been practicing quite a bit and right now I think we have two great units." -- Red Wings forward Anthony Mantha, who had one of Detroit's two power-play goals against Minnesota
"The team is doing just fine without me right now, which gives me a good comfort level in my process, in my healing. I think it's going to go straight from pretty much no contact to playing a game and when that is, we're not really sure yet, but we're not too far away." -- Karlsson

Red Wings projected lineup

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

Senators projected lineup

Bobby Ryan -- Derick Brassard -- Mark Stone
Zack Smith -- Kyle Turris -- Ryan Dzingel
Mike Hoffman -- Jean-Gabriel Pageau -- Tom Pyatt
Alex Formenton -- Nate Thompson -- Alexandre Burrows
Dion Phaneuf -- Cody Ceci
Ben Harpur -- Fredrik Claesson
Mark Borowiecki -- Chris Wideman
Craig Anderson
Mike Condon
Scratched:Logan Brown
Injured:Erik Karlsson (left foot), Colin White (left wrist), Johnny Oduya (lower body)

Status report

Witkowski will play his first game for the Red Wings after signing a two-year, $1.5 million contract, with an average annual value of $750,000, on July 1. ... With Oduya out, the Senators recalled Harpur from Binghamton of the American Hockey League. Harpur had no points in six regular-season games and two assists in nine Stanley Cup Playoff games for Ottawa last season. … Formenton will make his NHL debut.

Stat pack

Burrows needs one goal for 200 in his NHL career. … Tatar needs one goal for 100.