ST. PAUL - The Minnesota Wild (37-24-4) is back in action tonight against the New York Rangers (31-28-6). The Rangers have been in a slump recently and are 4-4-2 in their last ten games. 

Minnesota is coming off a big win over the Colorado Avalanche on Tuesday night and is 5-5-0 in its last ten. The Rangers have lost two-straight games. 

The Wild won't make any changes to the lineup tonight. Filip Gustavsson will start again for Minnesota, and David Jiricek will sit for his sixth consecutive game. 

For the Rangers, Igor Shesterkin will make his fourth career start against the Wild. He is 21-22-4 on the year with a 2.87 goals-against average and a .905 save percentage. 

Adam Fox skated in a non-contact jersey this morning butt will miss his eighth-straight game tonight with an upper-body injury. 

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

Wild Projected Lines

Matt Boldy - Marco Rossi - Mats Zuccarello

Marcus Johansson - Freddy Gaudreau - Gustav Nyquist

Marcus Foligno - Ryan Hartman - Vinnie Hinostroza

Yakov Trenin - Devin Shore - Justin Brazeau

Defense:

Jake Middleton - Brock Faber

Declan Chisholm - Jared Spurgeon

Jon Merrill - Zach Bogosian

Starting Goaltender: Filip Gustavsson

Scratched: Brendan Gaunce, David Jiricek

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

Rangers Projected Lines

Artemi Panarin - Vincent Trocheck - Will Cuylle

Alexis Lafrenière - JT Miller - Mika Zibanejad

Chris Kreider - Sam Carrick - Brett Berard

Brennan Othmann - Johnny Brodzinski - Matt Rempe

Defense:

K'Andre Miller - Will Borgen

Urho Vaakanainen - Braden Schneider

Carson Soucy - Zac Jones

Starting Goaltender: Igor Shesterkin

Scratched: Juuso Parssinen, Calvin de Haan

Injured: Adam Fox (upper), Adam Edstrom (lower), Arthur Kaliyev (upper).