ST. PAUL - The Minnesota Wild (37-24-5) is back in action tonight to face the St. Louis Blues (31-28-7) for a big game. The Blues are currently eight points behind the Wild for the first wildcard spot in the West. 

They are two points behind the Calgary Flames for the last wildcard spot in the West, as well. A win tonight and the Blues could be tied for a playoff spot. 

The Wild are coming off an overtime loss to the New York Rangers and are 4-5-1 in their last ten games. The Blues are coming off a loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins and are 6-2-2 in their last ten games. 

Despite started the other three games against the Wild this year, Jordan Binnington will be the backup tonight to Joel Hofer. 

Hofer, 24, will make his first start against the Wild in his career. He is 11-7-3 this season with a 2.87 goals-against average and a .900 save percentage. 

Filip Gustavsson will start again for the Wild tonight as he is making his fourth straight start. There will be no line changes for the Wild tonight. 

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

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). 

Jake Neighbours - Robert Thomas - Pavel Buchnevich 

Dylan Holloway - Brayden Schenn - Jordan Kyrou

Mathieu Joseph - Oskar Sundqvist - Zack Bolduc

Alexey Toropchenko - Radek Faksa - Nathan Walker

Defense:

Cam Fowler - Nick Leddy

Philip Broberg - Justin Faulk

Ryan Suter - Tyler Tucker

Starting Goaltender: Joel Hofer

Scratched: Alexandre Texier, Matthew Kessel

Injured: Colton Parayko (lower).