Overview
- Morning skate confirmed Nils Höglander’s season debut on the fourth line with Drew O’Connor and Arshdeep Bains.
- Elias Pettersson remains sidelined with an upper-body injury under further evaluation, with O’Connor centering again and Kiefer Sherwood and Aatu Räty rotating in the power-play bumper role.
- Kevin Lankinen gets the start with Nikita Tolopilo backing up, and Thatcher Demko took part in the morning skate.
- Vancouver seeks consecutive wins for the first time since mid-October, while Detroit enters 2-0-2 in its past four with a 24.5% power play and a team save percentage ranked 30th.
- Sportsbooks list Detroit at -120 on the moneyline, and one highlighted prop is Evander Kane over 2.5 shots on goal.