Marco Rossi returns as the Wild face a surging New Jersey team. Get tonight's projected lines and see how Minnesota stacks up.
The Minnesota Wild (3-3-1) is back in action tonight against the New Jersey Devils (5-1-0) to wrap up a five-game road trip.
Wild forward Marco Rossi will enter the lineup tonight. He missed the last game with a lower-body injury. The Wild recalled forward Hunter Haight from the AHL and placed Zach Bogosian on the injured reserve but Haight won't play tonight.
Here are tonights lines.
Wild Projected Lines
Kirill Kaprizov - Joel Eriksson Ek - Matt Boldy
Marcus Johansson - Marco Rossi - Vladimir Tarasenko
Marcus Foligno - Ryan Hartman - Vinnie Hinostroza
Yakov Trenin - Danila Yurov - Tyler Pitlick
Defense:
Jonas Brodin - Brock Faber
Zeev Buium - Jared Spurgeon
Jake Middleton - David Jiricek
Starting Goaltender: Filip Gustavsson
Scratched: Ben Jones, Dameon Hunt, Hunter Haight.
Injured: Mats Zuccarello (lower-body), Nico Sturm (back), Zach Bogosian (lower).
New Jersey Projected Lines
Ondrej Palat - Jack Hughes - Jesper Bratt
Timo Meier - Nico Hischier - Arseny Gritsyuk
Paul Cotter - Dawson Mercer - Connor Brown
Stefan Noesen - Luke Glendening - Brian Halonen
Defense:
Luke Hughes - Brett Pesce
Jonas Siegenthaler - Dougie Hamilton
Brenden Dillon - Simon Nemec
Starting Goaltender: Nico Daws
Scratched: Cody Glass, Dennis Cholowski.
Injured: Johnathan Kovacevic (lower-body), Marc McLoughlin (upper-body), Seamus Casey (lower-body), Evgenii Dadonov (upper-body), Zack MacEwen (upper-body), Jacob Markstrom (lower-body).
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