Here is everything you need to know before puck drop.
The Minnesota Wild (30-17-4) are back in action tonight following its 3-1 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Wednesday night. The Wild play the Montreal Canadiens (24-21-5) tonight for a 6:00 p.m. Central Time start.
The Canadiens have dropped three straight games and have made a few changes to the lineup tonight. Jakub Dobes will start in goal and Rafael Harvey-Pinard will replace Michael Pezzetta in the lineup.
Montreal will also be without Kaiden Guhle tonight. The defenseman is out indefinitely after undergoing successful surgery on a lacerated quadricep muscle. Tonight is his bobblehead night. The team recalled defenseman Jayden Struble to replace Guhle.
Marc-Andre Fleury will make his final start at the Bell Center tonight. He grew up very close to the building and will have over 100 family members and friends at the game tonight.
Fleury is the only change the Wild are expected to make for tonight's game.
Here are tonight's projected lines (subject to change).
Wild Projected Lines
Matt Boldy - Joel Eriksson Ek - Mats Zuccarello
Marcus Foligno - Marco Rossi - Ryan Hartman
Liam Ohgren - Freddy Gaudreau - Yakov Trenin
Devin Shore - Marat Khusnutdinov - Jakub Lauko
Defense:
Jake Middleton - Brock Faber
Declan Chisholm - Jared Spurgeon
Jon Merrill - Zach Bogosian
Starting Goaltender: Marc-Andre Fleury
Scratched: Ben Jones, Travis Dermott
Injured: Kirill Kaprizov (lower), Jonas Brodin (lower), Marcus Johansson (concussion).
Canadiens Projected Lines
Cole Caufield - Nick Suzuki - Juraj Slafkovsky
Alex Newhook - Kirby Dach - Patrik Laine
Josh Anderson - Jake Evans - Joel Armia
Rafael Harvey-Pinard - Christian Dvorak - Brendan Gallagher
Defense:
Lane Hutson - Mike Matheson
Arber Xhekaj - Alexandre Carrier
Jayden Struble - David Savard
Starting Goaltender: Jakub Dobes
Scratched: Michael Pezzetta
Injured: Kaiden Guhle (lower), Emil Heineman (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 Lou Nanne 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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