The Nashville Predators (9-8-2, 20 points T-4th Central) visit Motown on Wednesday looking for a second straight victory when playing at Little Caesars Arena against the Detroit Red Wings (9-5-4, 22 points, 4th Atlantic), winners of each of their last two. Nashville defeated the Arizona Coyotes 4-3 in a shootout on Monday night scoring the decisive goal in the seventh round of the shootout. Detroit defeated the Columbus Blue Jackets 6-1 on Saturday with Filip Hronek scoring a pair of goals for the Red Wings. Borowiecki is out for Nashville. Detroit will play without Robby Fabbri, Gustav Lindstrom, Matt Luff, Elmer Soderblom and Filip Zadina.
The Nashville Predators are scoring an average of 2.68 goals per game which is 27th in the NHL. The Predators are taking an average of 30.3 shots per game which is 20th. Nashville's power play must improve as the Predators are scoring only 17.3% of the time with the man advantage which is 28th. Nino Niederreiter is the leader in goals scored for Nashville with 9, while Filip Forsberg has scored seven. Mikael Granlund is the leader in assists with 13. The points leader is Forsberg with 19 and Roman Josi is second with 16. Nashville has scored only 13 power-play goals in 19 games.
Nashville is allowing an average of 3.21 goals per game which is 15th in the league. The Predators are allowing an average of 32.7 shots which is 19th. The penalty-kill unit for Nashville is 7th best, successfully holding opponents scoreless 81.4% of the time that the Predators are short-handed. Juuse Saros is 7-6-2 with a 3.06 goals-against average and a .905 save percentage.