Red Wings at Lightning preview

RED WINGS (0-4-2) at LIGHTNING (3-1-0)
7:30 p.m. ET; SUN, FS-D, NHL.TV

Callahan missed the first four games of the season recovering from offseason surgery on his right shoulder. He was expected to return in early November but was cleared for contact near the end of the preseason.
The Lightning are looking to end their five-game homestand with a third consecutive win.
Detroit is trying to avoid opening the season with seven losses for the first time.

Players to watch

Red Wings forward Andreas Athanasiou scored his first two goals of the season in a 7-3 loss to the Montreal Canadiens on Monday.
Lightning forward Tyler Johnson had a hat trick in a 4-2 win against the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday and leads Tampa Bay with five points (three goals, two assists).

They said it

"We're finding out which guys are mentally tough and I think all of our young guys have done a good job of it so far. They've rebounded and they understand today's a new day and let's focus on the shift and the game ahead of us." -- Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill
"You can't change the way you play because of injury, because of past injury. It's the only way I'm successful, is playing the way I do and that's the way I have to play."-- Lightning forward Ryan Callahan

Red Wings projected lineup

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

Lightning projected lineup

Yanni Gourde -- Steven Stamkos -- Brayden Point
Ondrej Palat -- Tyler Johnson -- Nikita Kucherov
Alex Killorn -- Anthony Cirelli -- Mathieu Joseph
Ryan Callahan -- Cedric Paquette -- J.T. Miller
Victor Hedman -- Dan Girardi
Ryan McDonagh -- Anton Stralman
Braydon Coburn -- Mikhail Sergachev
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Louis Domingue
Scratched: Adam Erne, Slater Koekkoek, Danick Martel
Injured: None

Status report

DeKeyser, Green and Ericsson made the trip and participated in an optional skate. ... The Red Wings reassigned defenseman Libor Sulak to Grand Rapids of the American Hockey League and claimed forward de la Rose off waivers from the Canadiens on Wednesday. ... The Lightning reassigned forward Martel to Syracuse of the AHL for a conditional stint. He hasn't played since being claimed off waivers from the Philadelphia Flyers on Sept. 22. ...Lightning forward
Cory Conacher
signed a one-year, one-way $700,000 contract and was assigned to Syracuse on Wednesday.

Stat pack

Bertuzzi has four points (goal, three assists) during a four-game point streak. ... Gourde has four points (two goals, two assists) during a three-game point streak.