GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Detroit Red Wings coach Mike Babcock stacked his top line this season by reuniting Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg, expecting the move to spark both stars and create at least one dominant combination.

While four games is a small sample size, the line, which includes Tomas Holmstrom, has not yet clicked. The trio had combined for two goals and three assists heading into Saturday night's game against the Phoenix Coyotes at Jobing.com Arena.

Zetterberg had no goals and two assists and Holmstrom had no points.

Babcock, however, thinks they're too good to be held in check for long.

"Obviously, not generated what we expect," Babcock said before the game. "I think in the short-term it's always easy to examine that. One thing I know about those guys, they're proud guys, they'll get themselves going.

"We need their unit on the power play to have more motion and be more dangerous and we need them to be more dangerous five-on-five."

Zetterberg, coming off a disappointing 23-goal, 70-point season, was hoping for a faster start after losing some weight in the summer in an effort to gain quickness. He said he's a little frustrated.

"Especially when you have a lot of chances, you want to make something better out of it," Zetterberg said. "But you got to keep going and it will come."

Zetterberg said the chemistry is there, after having played with Datsyuk and Holmstrom so often in the past.

"But, point-wise, just for me, I want to have a little bit more," Zetterberg said. "I think I had the chances to score a few goals. But that's the way it is. Sometimes, the puck will go in; sometimes, it won't. Just got to keep going, keep shooting the puck and it will turn around.

"We know we're doing good things. We just got to score some more goals."

Holmstrom has a recent history of strong starts. He had eight goals and two assists in his first 13 games last season en route to a big rebound year (25 goals, 45 points in 68 games). He had six goals in his first six games the previous season. And in 2007-08, he had eight goals and six assists in his first 12 games.

"We haven't really played that good, so we just got to pick it up," Holmstrom said. "We've been maybe trying to make it too fancy and coughing up pucks.

"What can you do? Maybe try to play a little simpler, north and south, and get more pucks to the net."

This line also plays together on the power play, which is hampered by point man Brian Rafalski's injury, which will idle him another three weeks or so.

"We got to get pucks to the net and move the puck around," Holmstrom said. "Looks like we're a little predictable and slow with the puck movement."

Overall, Babcock is not pleased with an offense that has produced 12 goals in four games, which still is better than last season's average of 2.72 goals per game.

"The big thing for me, in all four games we're not dangerous enough offensively,"

Babcock said. "We're not on top of the goalie, we're not hard at the net. We got to do a better job of getting on the inside, competing physically on offense.

"I'm not talking about hitting people, I'm talking about hanging onto pucks and grinding and working with the puck in the o-zone."