Here is everything you need to know before puck drop tonight.
ST. PAUL - The Minnesota Wild (28-15-4) are in action tonight against the Utah Hockey Club (20-19-7) for the third meeting between the two teams this year.
The Wild are welcoming Kirill Kaprizov and Jared Spurgeon into the lineup tonight. Kaprizov missed the last 12 games with a lower-body injury and Spurgeon had missed the last nine games with a lower-body injury.
Utah won't make any changes tonight. Mikhail Sergachev will miss tonights game again. Karel Vejmelka will start tonight for Utah and Filip Gustavsson for the Wild.
Vejmelka has started both games this year for Utah against the Wild. He is 1-0-1 with a 2.41 goals-against average (GAA) and a .925 save percentage (SV%).
Gustavsson has started one of the games this year against Utah and it was a win. He stopped 21 shots out of the 25 he faced in the Wild's 5-4 overtime win back in December.
Here are tonight's projected lines (subject to change).
Wild Projected Lineup
Kirill Kaprizov - Marco Rossi - Mats Zuccarello
Matt Boldy - Joel Eriksson Ek - Ryan Hartman
Liam Ohgren - Freddy Gaudreau - Marcus Foligno
Jakub Lauko - Marat Khusnutdinov - Yakov Trenin
Defense:
Jake Middleton - Brock Faber
Declan Chisholm - Jared Spurgeon
Jon Merrill - Zach Bogosian
Starting Goaltender: Filip Gustavsson
Scratched: Travis Dermott, Devin Shore
Injured: Jonas Brodin (lower), Marcus Johansson (concussion).
Utah Projected Lineup
Clayton Keller - Logan Cooley - Nick Schmaltz
Mattias Maccelli - Barrett Hayton - Josh Doan
Jack McBain - Nick Bjugstad - Lawson Crouse
Liam O'Brien - Kevin Stenlund - Alexander Kerfot
Defense:
Olli Maata - John Marino
Ian Cole - Michael Kesselring
Juuso Valimaki - Nick DeSimone
Starting Goaltender: Karel Vejmelka
Scratched: Michael Carcone, Vladislav Kolyachonok
Injured: Mikhail Sergachev (upper), Dylan Guenther (lower), Sean Durzi (upper), Robert Bortuzzo (lower).
How to Watch & Listen: Tonight's game will be on ESPN+/HULU. Roxy Bernstein will be on the play-by-play with Cassie Campbell-Pascall as the color analyst. 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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