ST. PAUL - The Minnesota Wild (37-25-5) is back in action tonight for a game against a Western Conference opponent in the Los Angeles Kings (36-20-9). 

The Wild held an optional morning skate on Monday which included defenseman Jonas Brodin. Wild head coach John Hynes said after morning skate that Brodin is listed as day-to-day. 

Hynes also said that Kirill Kaprizov and Joel Eriksson Ek are progressing off the ice. Some good signs for the Wild. 

Minnesota isn't expected to make any changes to its lineup tonight. Filip Gustavsson will start his fourth consecutive game and his eighth in the Wild's last nine games. Hynes did say that there could be a few game-time decisions. 

The Wild have two extra players tonight. Forward Brendan Gaunce and defenseman David Jiricek. 

Update: Marcus Foligno will not play tonight with an upper-body injury. 

Los Angeles is on a five game winning streak and is 5-3-2 in its last ten games. They are 2-0-0 against the Wild this year as well. They have outscored Minnesota 9-2 in those two games.

Former Wild goaltender Darcy Kuemper will start tonight. He has been incredible this year and is entering Monday's game with a shutout streak over 150 minutes. 

The Kings are not expected to make any changes to their lineup. They will go with the same lineup for the sixth consecutive game. 

Here are tonight's lineups (subject to change). 

Wild Projected Lines

Matt Boldy - Marco Rossi - Mats Zuccarello

Marcus Johansson - Freddy Gaudreau - Gustav Nyquist

Yakov Trenin - Ryan Hartman - Vinnie Hinostroza

Devin Shore - Brendan Ganuce - 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), Marcus Foligno (upper). 

Kings Projected Lines

Andrei Kuzmenko - Anze Kopitar - Adrian Kempe

Warren Foegele - Phillip Danault - Trevor Moore

Kevin Fiala - Quinton Byfield - Alex Laferriere

Tanner Jeannot - Samuel Helenius - Alex Turcotte

Defense:

Mikey Anderson - Drew Doughty

Vladislav Gavrikov - Jordan Spence

Joel Edmundson - Brandt Clarke

Starting Goaltender: Darcy Kuemper

Scratched: Akil Thomas, Jacob Moverare, Kyle Burroughs, Trevor Lewis.

Injured: None