Tonight at 7:30 p.m. ET, the Anaheim Ducks (23-7-5, 51 points) and Detroit Red Wings (15-11-9, 39 points) square off live from the Honda Center in Anaheim for the first of two meetings against each other this season. The game can be live streamed here. Anaheim fans can hear all of the hard-hitting action on KLAA 830 while Detroit fans can do the same on 97.1 The Ticket.
Anaheim enters play on a five-game winning streak and sits atop the Pacific Division while trailing the Chicago Blackhawks by two points for the most in the NHL while Detroit is winless in its last five games and is dealing with injury problems. The Red Wings defeated the Anaheim Ducks in seven games during last year's Stanley Cup Playoffs before moving to the Eastern Conference this season.
The Ducks improved to 13-0-2 at home on Sunday--their best home mark in franchise history--after defeating the Edmonton Oilers 3-2. Penner's late game-winning goal was the only points from his line in the game.
"Maybe we weren't mentally sharp as we had been in the past," Dustin Penner said via NHL.com. "We had a lot of days off. That's not an excuse, but maybe that's why. We still have to be better. The team depends on us."
Penner is third on the team with 24 points off of 10 goals and 14 assists while Corey Perry is second with 36 points off of 21 tallies and 15 helpers and Ryan Getzlaf is on a 14-game point streak and paces the team with 16 markers and 23 assists for 39 points.
Detroit is ravaged by injury and is without leading scorer Henrik Zetterberg (11-19-30, back) and goaltender Jimmy Howard (sprained knee), among others. With Zetterberg sidelined, Pavel Datsyuk is the team's leading scorer with 25 points off of 13 goals and 12 assists while Daniel Alfredsson has found the twine seven times and added 17 assists for 24 points.
In net, Jonas Gustavsson, who is 8-2-2 with a 2.09 goals-against average and a .926 save percentage is likely to start for Detroit while Jonas Hiller is probable for Anaheim and is 13-4-4 with a 2.47 GAA and a .915 save percentage.
The Ducks look to extend their winning streak to five games while the Red Wings try to win for the first time in six games when the lights come up tonight at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit.
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