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    Dylan Loucks
    Jan 12, 2025, 20:15

    Here is everything you need to know before puck drop.

    The Minnesota Wild (27-12-4) are back in action tonight after their 3-1 win over the San Jose Sharks on Saturday night. They face the Vegas Golden Knights (28-11-3) tonight before hosting the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday. 

    Vegas is coming off a loss to the New York Rangers last night. They are 7-3-0 in its last ten games. The Wild are coming off a win and are also 7-3-0 in their last ten. 

    These two teams met earlier this year back in Minnesota. The Golden Knights won that game 3-2 with two goals from Victor Olofsson. 

    There should be only one change for the Wild as Filip Gustavsson will defend the cage after Marc-Andre Fleury started last night. As for Vegas, Adin Hill is projected to start after Ilya Samsonov started last night. 

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

    Wild Projected Lineup

    Matt Boldy - Marco Rossi - Mats Zuccarello

    Marcus Johansson - Freddy Gaudreau - Ryan Hartman

    Marcus Foligno - Joel Eriksson Ek - Yakov Trenin

    Devin Shore - Marat Khusnutdinov - Ben Jones

    Defense:

    Declan Chisholm - Zach Bogosian

    Jon Merrill - Jake Middleton

    Travis Dermott - David Jiricek

    Starting Goaltender: Filip Gustavsson

    Scratched: None

    Injured: Brock Faber (upper), Jonas Brodin (lower), Kirill Kaprizov (lower), Jared Spurgeon (lower), Jakub Lauko (lower).

    Golden Knights Projected Lineup

    Ivan Barbashev - William Karlsson - Mark Stone

    Victor Olofsson - Tomas Hertl - Pavel Dorofeyev

    Brett Howden - Nicolas Roy - Keegan Kolesar

    Tanner Pearson - Cole Schwindt - Alexander Holtz

    Defense:

    Noah Hanifin - Alex Pietrangelo 

    Brayden McNabb - Shea Theodore 

    Nicolas Hague - Zach Whitecloud

    Starting Goaltender: Adin Hill

    Scratched: Kaedan Korczak

    Injured: Ben Hutton (upper),  Jack Eichel (sick).

    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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