Here is everything you need to know before puck drop tonight.
ST. PAUL - The Minnesota Wild (25-11-4) are back home to face the St. Louis Blues (19-18-4) tonight.
The Wild are expected to make a few changes tonight. Devin Shore will draw back into the lineup. He missed last game with an illness. Carson Lambos was recalled from the Iowa Wild but is not expected to make his NHL debut.
Defenseman Travis Dermott was getting bag skated with the scratches after the Wild's morning skate so he looks to be a healthy scratch tonight after playing in only six minutes last game.
Jake Middleton skated for the second straight day with the Wild. Although Wild head coach John Hynes didn't confirm that Middleton would play, all signs point to him getting into the lineup.
He missed the last 11 games with an upper-body injury. The Wild went 6-5-0 in that span.
Filip Gustavsson will make his second start in a row. He is coming off a shutout win against the Carolina Hurricanes and will make his third start of the year against the Blues.
Kirill Kaprizov still hasn't skated yet and will miss his sixth game in a row with a lower-body injury.
Here are tonight's projected lines (subject to change).
Wild 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
Jake Middleton - Zach Bogosian
Jon Merrill - Declan Chisholm
Starting Goaltender: Filip Gustavsson
Scratched: Travis Dermott
Injured: Kirill Kaprizov (lower), Jared Spurgeon (lower), Jakub Lauko (lower).
Blues Projected Lines
Brandon Saad - Robert Thomas - Pavel Buchnevich
Dylan Holloway - Brayden Schenn - Jordan Kyrou
Jake Neighbours - Oskar Sundqvist - Zack Bolduc
Alexey Toropchenko - Nathan Walker - Alexandre Texier
Defense:
Cam Fowler - Colton Parayko
Philip Broberg - Justin Faulk
Ryan Suter - Tyler Tucker
Starting Goaltender: Jordan Binnington
Scratched: Scott Perunovich, Mathieu Joseph
Injured: Torey Krug (lower), Nick Leddy (lower), Radek Faska (lower).
How to Watch & Listen: Tonight's game will be on Fanduel Sports Network North. Anthony LaPanta will be on the play-by-play with Ryan Carter 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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