Petr Mrazek 1-17-15

Red Wings goaltender Petr Mrazek is 8-3-1, with a 2.33 goals-against average this season.

(The Associated Press)

DETROIT - Petr Mrazek is back in goal and the Detroit Red Wings might have a slightly different look on their third and fourth lines tonight when they seek their season-high fifth consecutive victory as the Minnesota Wild visit Joe Louis Arena (7:30, Fox Sports Detroit).

It is their final game before the six-day All-Star break. The Red Wings (26-11-9) have a chance to pass the Tampa Bay Lightning for first place in the Atlantic Division.

Mrazek will make his fifth start in a row in place of the injured Jimmy Howard. Mrazek didn't stick around long in his most recent appearance, getting replaced by Tom McCollum less than 14 minutes into the game Sunday vs. the Buffalo Sabres after allowing three goals on seven shots behind a flat team. The Red Wings came back to win 6-4.

"The team was brutal, let's be honest. He was part of it," coach Mike Babcock said. "No one was prepared to play. He never got an opportunity to play in the second and third (periods) when everyone else got an opportunity to bail themselves out, so he has an opportunity here today.

"That's what the league is about, it's an everyday league. Part of being a young guy is when you have success is you dwell on the success instead of getting ready for tomorrow. You have these lapses in back-to-back games with young guys, so here's an opportunity to bounce back."

Babcock shuffled his bottom six, moving Luke Glendening to the wing on a line with Riley Sheahan and Drew Miller. Joakim Andersson centered a line with Stephen Weiss and Teemu Pulkkinen.

"That's how we end some games some nights (with him on the wing)," Glendening said. "I'm not sure what they're doing yet."

Glendening, a fixture as the fourth-line center all of this season and most of last year, said it's not a big adjustment moving to wing, where he played his entire career before joining the Red Wings.

"I've played wing my whole career, 13 1/2 years, so I've only played center for maybe two," Glendening said. "I played with (Sheahan) in Grand Rapids a little bit, I haven't played with him here. It's something different; we'll see how it goes."

The Wild have gone 4-9-4 since starting the season 16-11-1.

"They got a back end that can flat-out skate, probably as good a skating back end as there is in the league," Babcock said. "They don't have a (Shea) Weber (like Nashville), but they have really elite, elite skaters who move the puck and then up front (Zach) Parise is one of the most tenacious guys in the league around the net. I think with (Mikko) Koivu and (Jason) Pominville that's a really good line. They work and they skate and the play with structure. It's going to be a test for us for sure.

"The big thing is we all go on All-Star break, we got to make sure we stay here (mentally). It takes the same amount of time to do it right as it does wrong, just a different kind of focus."

Here are the lines and defense pairs the Red Wings skated with this morning:

Gustav Nyquist-Henrik Zetterberg-Justin Abdelkader

Tomas Tatar-Pavel Datsyuk-Darren Helm

Drew Miller-Riley Sheahan-Luke Glendening

Stephen Weiss-Joakim Andersson-Teemu Pulkkinen

Jonathan Ericsson-Niklas Kronwall

Kyle Quincey-Danny DeKeyser

Brendan Smith-Xavier Ouellet

Petr Mrazek (starting)

Tom McCollum

The power-play units they practiced with today are as follows:

Nyquist-Zetterberg-Pulkkinen, Abdelkader (net front), Kronwall

Tatar-Datsyuk-Weiss, Sheahan (net front), DeKeyser

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