The Minnesota Wild host the Montreal Canadiens tonight. Here is everything you need to know.
ST. PAUL - The Minnesota Wild (10-2-3) are back home tonight for a quick two-game homestand. They will host the Montreal Canadiens (5-9-2) tonight.
Marcus Johansson and Zach Bogosian were both on the ice for morning skate today but Jonas Brodin wasn't.
Wild head coach John Hynes said he anticipates that both Bogosian and Johansson will be good to go for tonight's game.
Brodin will be out tonight with an upper-body injury. Hynes said Brodin is day-to-day with his injury.
Filip Gustavsson will start tonight for the Wild. He is 1-2-1 against Montreal in his career with a 3.64 goals-against average (GAA) and a .884 save percentage (SV%).
Sam Montembeault is in goal for Montreal tonight. he is 1-1-1 in his career against the Wild with a 3.60 GAA and a .872 SV%.
Here are tonight's projected lines (subject to change).
Wild Projected Lines
Kirill Kaprizov - Marco Rossi - Mats Zuccarello
Marcus Johansson - Joel Eriksson Ek - Matt Boldy
Marcus Foligno - Freddy Gaudreau - Ryan Hartman
Jakub Lauko - Marat Khusnutdinov - Yakov Trenin
Defense:
Jake Middleton - Brock Faber
Declan Chisholm - Jared Spurgeon
Jon Merrill - Zach Bogosian
Starting Goaltender: Filip Gustavsson
Scratched: Mikey Milne, Daemon Hunt
Injured: Jonas Brodin (upper)
Canadiens Projected Lines
Kirby Dach - Nick Suzuki - Juraj Slafkovsky
Cole Caufield - Jake Evans - Alex Newhook
Josh Anderson - Christian Dvorak - Brendan Gallagher
Emil Heineman - Lucas Condotta - Joel Armia
Defense:
Kaiden Guhle - Mike Matheson
Lane Hutson - David Savard
Arber Xhekaj - Jayden Struble
Starting Goaltender: Sam Montembeault
Scratched: Michael Pezzetta, Justin Barron
Injured: Rafael Harvey-Pinard (lower), Patrik Laine (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 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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