NHL Preseason Game Preview: Detroit Red Wings at Chicago Blackhawks with Projected Line Combinations 9/30/2025

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Detroit Red Wings (2-2-0) at Chicago Blackhawks (2-1-0)

Venue: United Center
Date: Tuesday, September 30
Time: 7:00 pm EST
TV: ESPN+/Chicago Sports Network

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Detroit Red Wings News & Notes:

The Red Wings

Chicago Blackhawks News & Notes:

The Blackhawks picked up a 4-1 win over the Wild on Sunday. They got goals from Ryan Donato and a hat trick from Frank Nazar. Drew Commesso got the start, playing the whole game, turning aside 28 of the 29 shots he faced.

Detroit Red Wings Projected Lines

Soderblom-Larkin-Raymond 
Appleton–Copp–Rasmussen
Mazur-Compher-Brandsegg Nygard
Watson-Lombardi-Finnie

Johansson-Hamonic
Gustafsson-Bernard Docker
Wallinder-Sandin Pelikka

Talbot
Cossa

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Chicago Blackhawks Projected Lines

Donato-Bedard-Burakovsky
Teravainen-Nazar-Bertuzzi
Moore-Dickinson-Mikheyev
Foligno-Greene-Dach

Grzelcyk-Rinzel
Kaiser-Levshunov
Del Mastro-Murphy

Knight
Soderblom

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Players To Watch:

Detroit Red Wings

Elmer Soderblom, in 26 games last season for the Red Wings, recorded 11 points, including four goals and seven assists. He was a plus-two with a game-winning goal.

Chicago Blackhawks

Ilya Mikheyev, in 80 games for the Blackhawks last season, recorded 34 points on 20 goals and 14 assists. He was a plus-four with three shorthanded goals and three game-winning goals.

Next Up

Detroit: October 2 at Toronto Maple Leafs
Chicago: October 3 vs. Minnesota Wild

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