Here is everything you need to know before puck drop.
The Minnesota Wild (23-11-4) are back in action tonight against the Washington Capitals (25-10-2) on the road. They have a two-game road trip that will conclude on Saturday against the Carolina Hurricanes.
Minnesota will make a change tonight. Marc-Andre Fleury will be the starter. Filip Gustavsson started four straight games so Fleury will get the start tonight.
Carson Lambos and Brendan Gaunce were recalled from the Iowa Wild of the American Hockey League (AHL). Both of them will not play though.
Lambos was recalled because of Jared Spurgeon's injury. Zachary L'Heureux was just suspended by the NHL for three games for of his slew-foot on Spurgeon. He was also suspended without pay.
Here are tonight's projected lines (subject to change).
Wild's Projected Lines
Matt Boldy - Marco Rossi - Mats Zuccarello
Marcus Johansson - Joel Eriksson Ek - Ryan Hartman
Marcus Foligno - Freddy Gaudreau - Yakov Trenin
Devin Shore - Marat Khusnutdinov - Ben Jones
Defense:
Jonas Brodin - Brock Faber
Declan Chisholm - Zach Bogosian
Jon Merrill - Travis Dermott
Starting Goaltender: Filip Gustavsson
Scratched: Brendan Gaunce, Carson Lambos
Injured: Kirill Kaprizov (lower), Jakub Lauko (lower), Jake Middleton (upper), Jared Spurgeon (lower).
Capitals Projected Lines
Aliaksei Protas - Dylan Strome - Alex Ovechkin
Connor McMichael - Pierre-Luc Dubois - Tom Wilson
Andrew Mangiapane - Lars Eller - Ivan Miroshnichenko
Brandon Duhaime - Nic Dowd - Taylor Raddysh
Defense:
Rasmus Sandin - John Carlson
Martin Fehervary - Matt Roy
Jakub Chychrun - Trevor van Riemsdyk
Starting Goaltender: Charlie Lindgren
Scratched: Alexander Alexeyev, Dylan Mcllrath, Jakub Vrana
Injured: Sonny Milano (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 Wes Walz as the color analyst and Kevin Gorg a reporter. 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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