Tonight marks the Wild's final game of their seven-game road trip.
The Minnesota Wild (5-1-2) are back in action tonight for their final game on their seven game road trip. They will square off against the Pittsburgh Penguins (3-6-1).
Tonight marks Marc-Andre Fleury's last start of his NHL career in Pittsburgh. The future Hall of Fame goaltender played in Pittsburgh from 2003 to 2017. He won three Stanley Cups with the Penguins and is an icon of Penguins hockey.
"Maybe a deep breath. Look around," Fleury said on what he will do in his final game in Pittsburgh. "Take a good look around, right? Good memories. I was very fortunate to be here for so long."
The Wild seem to be welcoming their captain Jared Spurgeon back into the lineup after he had missed the previous six games with a lower-body injury.
Ryan Hartman will remain out for the Wild tonight with an upper-body injury. Daemon Hunt was also assigned to Iowa.
Here are tonight's projected lines (subject to change).
Wild's Projected Lines
Kirill Kaprizov - Marco Rossi - Mats Zuccarello
Marcus Johansson - Joel Eriksson Ek - Matt Boldy
Marcus Foligno - Freddy Gaudreau - Yakov Trenin
Jakub Lauko - Marat Khusnutdinov - Liam Ohgren
Defense:
Jake Middleton - Brock Faber
Jonas Brodin - Jared Spurgeon
Jon Merrill - Zach Bogosian
Starting Goaltender: Marc-Andre Fleury
Scratched: Declan Chisholm
Injured: Ryan Hartman (upper-body)
Penguins' Projected Lines
Evgeni Malkin - Sidney Crosby - Rickard Rakell
Drew O'Connor - Lars Eller - Noel Acciari
Michael Bunting - Cody Glass - Jesse Puljujarvi
Anthony Beauvillier - Kevin Hayes - Valtteri Puustinen
Defense:
Marcus Pettersson - Kris Letang
Matt Grzelcyk - Erik Karlsson
Ryan Graves - Jack St. Ivany
Starting Goaltender: Joel Blomqvist
Scratched: Ryan Shea, Tristan Jarry
Injured: Bryan Rust (lower), Blake Lizotte (upper), Matt Nieto (lower), Vasily Ponomarev (upper).
How to Watch & Listen: Tonight's game will be on Fanduel Sports Network North. Anthony LaPanta will be on the play-by-play with Ryan Carter and Kevin Gorg. The radio broadcast will be on KFAN FM 100.3 with Joe O'Donnell behind the mic doing the play-by-play. Tom Reid as the color analyst and Kevin Falness as the Studio Host.
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