SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Update from Monday's Detroit Red Wings practice at the HP Pavilion:



Defenseman Niklas Kronwall skated and said he felt good and will play Tuesday against the Sharks. Kronwall got a scare early in overtime during Sunday's 2-1 shootout loss in Pittsburgh, when he banged his left knee into Jordan Staal's knee.



Kronwall missed the rest of the OT.



"When I woke this morning, even last night after the flight, it felt a lot better than what I thought it would be,'' Kronwall said. "I think I'll be fine.''



Kronwall sprained his MCL in the same knee on a knee-on-knee check from Montreal's Georgres Laraque on Nov. 21 and missed nearly 10 weeks.



"Once you've been injured and you get hit on it the first time, you panic,'' coach Mike Babcock said. "You can't blame a guy, you think you've been out all this time and here we go again.''



Tomas Holmstrom will return to action after missing 13 games with a fractured foot.



"What we need in Homer is he's got emotion, he's fired up to play the game, we need that,'' Babcock said. "I'm excited he's coming back. We need someone to be in front of their net and drive their goalie crazy. Let's forget about being on the outside and be on the inside. Those things are contagious.''



Here are the lines they practiced with, though Babcock said not to read anything into them, that he split up Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg just to get them skating through the middle of the ice.



Filppula-Datsyuk-Holmstrom (Franzen working in)

Bertuzzi-Zetterberg-Cleary

Draper-Helm-Eaves

Maltby-Miller-Williams (May and Leino working in)



