DETROIT – Detroit Red Wings coach Mike Babcock shuffled his lines around Wednesday during the second day of practice in preparation for the first-round playoff series against the Boston Bruins.

Gustav Nyquist joined Pavel Datsyuk’s line with Justin Abdelkader, while Tomas Jurco was back on the Kid Line with Riley Sheahan and Tomas Tatar.

Darren Helm was centering Johan Franzen and Daniel Alfredsson. The fourth line remained the same, with Luke Glendening centering David Legwand and Drew Miller.

Today’s lines won’t necessarily be tomorrow’s lines, or the combinations Babcock uses in Game 1 Friday at TD Garden.

“It was a lot of specialty teams today, that was our plan,” Babcock said. “We knew coming in we were going to grind yesterday and do a lot of team stuff and then the heavy lifting yesterday, the specialty teams today, and we’ll have a little more tempo and special teams tomorrow.”

He’s glad the series starts later the other seven first-round matchups.

“We needed the time, we need to freshen up some people,” Babcock said. “We had ground hard to get in. When (the Bruins) were in here (April 2) they gave guys days off and we couldn’t give anybody days off.

“The other thing about it is when you’re the lower seed, the more detailed you can be, the better off you can be. And so preparation time has been great for us. Ideally it will be an equalizer and give us an opportunity to really compete.”

As for his team’s status as underdogs to the Presidents’ Trophy-winning Bruins, Babcock said, “I think we’re complete. I think we’re way better than people think. I think we’re a hard out.”