Bruins Faceoff With Red Wings At The Pizza Dome

7 p.m. ET
Little Caesars Arena – Detroit, MI
TV: NESN
Radio: 98.5 FM The Sports Hub

Season Series/Schedule
Date      Game                                    GWG
12/13     BOS 3 @ DET 2                  Brad Marchand
12/23     DET 1 @ BOS 3                  Patrice Bergeron
2/6         BOS @ DET         
3/5         DET @ BOS        

Team Leaders
Bruins                                                                                   Red Wings
Brad Marchand, 50                          Points                   Dylan Larkin, 38
Patrice Bergeron, 22                       Goals                    Anthony Mantha, 16
Brad Marchand, 29                          Assists                  Dylan Larkin, 30

The Bruins start a quick two-game road trip with their second trip to the new Little Caesars Arena in Detroit as they look for their third victory of the season over the Red Wings. The Bruins scored six goals in their two previous matchups against Detroit with Brad Marchand and Patrice Bergeron each scoring twice and Noel Acciari and David Pastrnak adding single tallies.

Marchand and Acciari will both be out of the lineup.  Marchand is serving the fifth and final game of his suspension for elbowing Marcus Johansson in the head and Acciari is still sidelined with a lower-body injury.

The Wings come in with just four wins over their last 10 games.  Their 10 wins on home ice this season is the third fewest in the league.  Only the Arizona Coyotes and Buffalo Sabres have fewer wins at home this season.

Veteran Jimmy Howard will get the start for the Wings tonight.  He is 5-5-2 with a 2.48 goals-against average and a .923 save percentage in 13 career games against the Bruins.

Probable Bruins Lineup
FORWARDS
Danton Heinen - Patrice Bergeron - David Pastrnak
Jake DeBrusk - David Krejci - Ryan Spooner
Tim Schaller - Riley Nash - David Backes
Frank Vatrano - Sean Kuraly - Austin Czarnik

DEFENSIVE PAIRINGS
Zdeno Chara - Charlie McAvoy
Torey Krug - Brandon Carlo
Matt Grzelcyk - Adam McQuaid

GOALTENDER
Tuukka Rask (21-8-4, 2.09 GAA, .925 save %, 2 SO)

INJURY REPORT
C-Noel Acciari (lower-body) out, LW-Anders Bjork (upper-body) out, D-Kevan Miller (upper-body) out

Probable Red Wings Lineup
FORWARDS
Gustav Nyquist - Henrik Zetterberg - Anthony Mantha
Tyler Bertuzzi - Dylan Larkin - Andreas Athanasiou
Tomas Tatar - Frans Nielsen - Darren Helm
Justin Abdelkader - Luke Glendening - Martin Frk

DEFENSIVE PAIRINGS
Jonathan Ericsson - Trevor Daley
Niklas Kronwall - Mike Green
Dan Dekeyser - Nick Jensen

GOALTENDER
Jimmy Howard (14-16-6, 2.82 GAA, .911 save %, 0 SO)

INJURY REPORT
RW-Johan Franzen (concussion) out