Detroit Red Wings training camp - Friday

Red Wings forwards Johan Franzen (left) and Gustav Nyquist hope to step up in tonight's preseason game vs. Pittsburgh.

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DETROIT – Riley Sheahan's line, with Tomas Tatar and Tomas Jurco, has played well for the Detroit Red Wings in the preseason.

Now coach Mike Babcock wants to see his top line of Henrik Zetterberg, Johan Franzen and Gustav Nyquist step up, The line combined has no points and a minus-2 rating in two games.

Both lines are dressing for tonight's home preseason finale against the Pittsburgh Penguins and Sidney Crosby at Joe Louis Arena (7:30 p.m., Fox Sports Detroit, 97.1 The Ticket).

"They got to get going," Babcock said. "It's just like everybody in exhibition. A lot of your veteran players, it takes them a while to get going. The urgency isn't quite the same, even though they know they got to be ready to go.

"Our kids have won three and the big dogs are 0-1. That's all part of whether you're engaged or not."

The Red Wings are 3-1-1; the Penguins are 2-3-0. Tonight will be Crosby's preseason debut.

Nyquist has skated the past two days after hurting his knee in a collision in Saturday's game.

"First game (his line) started off pretty slow against Chicago, then I thought we a good game against Boston, created a lot of chances, had the puck a lot during that game," Nyquist said. "We played a little bit together last year and had some success. Obviously, playing with two great players that like to hold onto the puck and make plays. At the same time it would be nice to produce some offense here before the real season gets started."

Here are the Red Wings lines and defense pairs for tonight:

Gustav Nyquist-Henrik Zetterberg-Johan Franzen

Tomas Tatar-Riley Sheahan-Tomas Jurco

Andrej Nestrasil-Stephen Weiss-Mitch Callahan

Justin Abdelkader-Luke Glendening-Landon Ferraro

Niklas Kronwall-Danny DeKeyser

Kyle Quincey-Jakub Kindl

Brian Lashoff-Nick Jensen

Jimmy Howard (entire game)

Thomas McCollum

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