Here is everything you need to know before puck drop.
ST. PAUL - The Minnesota Wild (7-1-2) are set to host the Toronto Maple Leafs (6-5-1) tonight at 5:00 p.m. The Leafs are coming off a back-to-back after their 4-2 loss to the St. Louis Blues on Saturday.
The Wild are in game two of their three game homestand and look to keep on rolling. After debuting their alternate jerseys on Friday, the Wild will once again wear their 78's alternate jerseys tonight.
Marcus Johansson, who blocked a shot on Friday, did not practice on Saturday with the team but is expected to play tonight. Wild head coach John Hynes said it was more of a maintenance day for Johansson.
Jake Middleton also did not practice on Saturday with the team but it was not injury related. Hynes expects Middleton to play tonight.
Filip Gustavsson will start tonight after a good bounce back start on Friday against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Here are tonight's lines (subject to change). *If Johansson can't play, the Wild will have to go with 11 forwards and 7 defensemen.
Wild's 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
Jonas Brodin - Jared Spurgeon
Declan Chisholm - Zach Bogosian
Starting Goaltender: Filip Gustavsson
Scratched: Jon Merrill
Injured: None
Maple Leafs' Projected Lines
Mitch Marner- Auston Matthews - Matthew Knies
Max Pacioretty - John Tavares - William Nylander
Bobby McMann - Max Domi - Nicholas Robertson
Steven Lorentz - David Kampf - Ryan Reaves
Defense:
Morgan Rielly - Oliver Ekman-Larsson
Jake McCabe - Chris Tanev
Simon Benoit - Conor Timmins
Starting Goaltender: Anthony Stolarz
Scratched: Philippe Myers, Matt Benning, Pontus Holmberg
Injured: Calle Jarnkrok (upper), Connor Dewar (upper), Jani Hakanpaa (lower), Dakota Mermis (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 Wes Walz and Kevin Gorg. 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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