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Dec 10, 2024; Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; Minnesota Wild center Marco Rossi (23) skates against Utah Hockey Club defenseman Michael Kesselring (7) during overtime play at Delta Center. Mandatory Credit: Rob Gray-Imagn ImagesDec 10, 2024; Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; Minnesota Wild center Marco Rossi (23) skates against Utah Hockey Club defenseman Michael Kesselring (7) during overtime play at Delta Center. Mandatory Credit: Rob Gray-Imagn Images
Joel Eriksson Ek Injury.

The Minnesota Wild (34-20-4) face the Utah Hockey Club (26-24-9) for a game on the road tonight. 

The Wild recalled forward Brendan Gaunce from the Iowa Wild earlier after defenseman Travis Dermott was claimed off waivers by the Edmonton Oilers. 

Despite being recalled, Gaunce won't play tonight. The only change for the Wild will be the starting goaltender. Marc-Andre Fleury will start tonight for the Wild vs Utah. 

Utah head coach Andre Tourigny said that there are some game-time decisions among the forwards so the lines below aren't set and stone. 

That being said, Karel Vejmelka will start again for Utah. The Wild are coming off a loss and are 6-4-0 in their last ten. Utah is coming off two straight wins and is 5-3-2 in its last ten.

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

Wild Projected Lines

Matt Boldy - Marco Rossi - Mats Zuccarello

Marcus Johansson - Freddy Gaudreau- Vinnie Hinostroza

Marcus Foligno - Marat Khusnutdinov - Liam Ohgren

Jakub Lauko - Devin Shore - Yakov Trenin

Defense:

Jake Middleton - Brock Faber

Jonas Brodin - Jared Spurgeon

Declan Chisholm- Zach Bogosian

Starting Goaltender: Marc-Andre Fleury

Scratched: Jon Merrill, Ryan Hartman (suspended), Brendan Gaunce.

Injured: Kirill Kaprizov (lower), Joel Eriksson Ek (lower). 

Utah Projected Lines

Clayton Keller - Logan Cooley - Nick Schmaltz

Alexander Kerfoot - Barrett Hayton - Dylan Guenther

Lawson Crouse - Jack McBain - Josh Doan

Liam O'Brien - Kevin Stenlund - Nick Bjugstad

Defense:

Mikhail Sergachev - John Marino

Olli Maatta - Sean Durzi

Ian Cole - Michael Kesselring

Starting Goaltender: Karel Vejmelka

Scratched: Mattias Maccelli, Nick DeSimone

Injured: Robert Bortuzzo (lower), Michael Carcone (lower).

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