-- Tomas Kopecky and Matt Ellis will not play tonight. Ellis is back home in Detroit after experiencing headaches from a hit in the Nashville game, Thursday. Kopecky has a shoulder injury and isn't practicing on the ice, but is with the team and doing off-ice workouts. Coach Mike Babcock said that both might be available for Tuesday's home game. Kopecky said that he'd be ready either Tuesday or Thursday.
-- With those two forwards out, the fourth line tonight will be Dallas Drake, Jiri Hudler and Aaron Downey. Hudler will play center for the first time since coming to North America.

Tonight's probable lines ...

DETROIT
Datsyuk-Zetterberg-Holmstrom
Franzen-Filppula-Samuelsson
Cleary-Draper-Malty
Drake-Hudler-Downey
Lidstrom-Rafalski
Kronwall-Lilja
Lebda-Chelios
Osgood (starts)
Hasek
Meech (healthy scratch)

COLUMBUS
Nash-Peca-Zherdev
Chimera-Malholtra-Boll
Glencross-Fedorov-Fritsche
Shelley-Novotny-Vyborny
Hejda-Foote
Hainsey-Klesla
Tollefsen-Westcott
Leclaire
Norrena