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    Dylan Loucks
    Dylan Loucks
    Apr 20, 2025, 23:46
    Updated at: Apr 21, 2025, 00:40
    Mandatory Credit: Stephen R. Sylvanie-Imagn Images.

    The Minnesota Wild is in action tonight for Game 1 of its Round One matchup with the Vegas Golden Knights for a 9:00 P.M Central start. 

    Minnesota played Vegas three times during the regular season and lost all three times.  They were outscored 12-4 in those three games as well. The Wild are 2-8-3 in their last 13 games vs the Golden Knights. 

    For the first time in a long time, the Wild are finally healthy. And to be healthy come playoff time is a huge plus for this team that hasn't been healthy for playoffs the last few years. 

    Minnesota has not won a playoff series in ten years but have made the playoffs 11 times in its last 13 season. The Wild missed the playoffs last year. 

    Zeev Buium will make his NHL debut tonight for Minnesota. He will become the first player in Wild history to make his debut in the playoffs and could become the second ever player to score his first NHL goal in the playoffs. 

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

    Wild Projected Lines

    Kirill Kaprizov - Joel Eriksson Ek - Matt Boldy

    Marcus Johansson - Freddy Gaudreau - Mats Zuccarello

    Marcus Foligno - Marco Rossi - Gustav Nyquist

    Yakov Trenin - Ryan Hartman - Justin Brazeau

    Defense:

    Jonas Brodin - Brock Faber

    Jake Middleton - Jared Spurgeon

    Zeev Buium - Zach Bogosian

    Starting Goaltender: Filip Gustavsson

    Scratched: Declan Chisholm, Devin Shore, Jon Merrill, Jesper Wallstedt, Vinnie Hinostroza. 

    Injured: None

    Golden Knights Projected Lines

    Ivan Barbashev - Jack Eichel - Mark Stone

    Brandon Saad - Tomas Hertl - Pavel Dorofeyev

    Victor Olofsson - William Karlsson - Reilly Smith

    Brett Howden - Nicolas Roy - Keegan Kolesar

    Defense:

    Nicolas Hague - Alex Pietrangelo

    Brayden McNabb – Shea Theodore

    Noah Hanifin - Zach Whitecloud

    Starting Goaltender: Adin Hill

    Scratched: Alexander Holtz, Ben Hutton, Kaedan Korczak, Tanner Pearson, Akira Schmid, Cole Schwindt.

    Injured: None