ST. PAUL - The Minnesota Wild (40-26-5) hosts the Vegas Golden Knights (42-20-8) for a possible first round preview of the playoffs. 

The Wild will be without Marcus Foligno tonight for the fifth consecutive game. Jonas Brodin will return to the lineup tonight but Declan Chisholm will not play. He was injured in the Wild's game on Monday. 

Both Foligno and Chisholm are listed as day-to-day. 

Marc-Andre Fleury will start tonight. It is his fourth start in his last 47 days. Filip Gustavsson had started 11 of the Wild's last 12 games. 

For Vegas, Shea Theodore will enter the lineup tonight. He had missed the previous 14 games with an injury that he sustained in the 4 Nations Face-Off. 

Tomas Hertl was hurt in the Golden Knights' last game and will not play tonight. He leads the team in goals with 31. Adin Hill will start in goal tonight for Vegas. 

The Golden Knights have won both games this season against the Wild and will look for the season sweep tonight. They have won 10 of the last 12 games against Minnesota as well. 

Here are tonight's projected lines (subject to change). 

Matt Boldy - Marco Rossi - Mats Zuccarello

Marcus Johansson - Freddy Gaudreau - Gustav Nyquist

Yakov Trenin - Ryan Hartman - Vinnie Hinostroza

Devin Shore - Brendan Ganuce - Justin Brazeau

Defense:

Jake Middleton - Brock Faber

Jonas Brodin - Jared Spurgeon

Jon Merrill - Zach Bogosian

Starting Goaltender: Marc-Andre Fleury

Scratched: Cameron Crotty

Injured: Kirill Kaprizov (lower), Joel Eriksson Ek (lower), Marcus Foligno (upper), Declan Chisholm (lower). 

Ivan Barbashev - Jack Eichel - Mark Stone

Brandon Saad - Nicolas Roy - Pavel Dorofeyev

Victor Olofsson - William Karlsson - Reilly Smith

Tanner Pearson - Brett Howden - Keagan Kolesar

Defense:

Brayden McNabb - Shea Theodore

Noah Hanifin - Zach Whitecloud

Nicolas Hague - Kaedan Korczak

Starting Goaltender: Adin Hill

Scratched: Ben Hutton, Cole Schwindt.

Injured: Alex Pietrangelo (lower), Tomas Hertl (upper), Raphael Lavoie (upper).