ST. PAUL - The Minnesota Wild (39-25-5) host the Buffalo Sabres (27-34-6) for a day game today. 

The Wild are not expected to make many changes to their lines tonight other than Jonas Brodin. The Wild defenseman has missed the last nine games with a lower-body injury but is projected to enter the lineup today. 

Filip Gustavsson will start again for the Wild. He is 27-15-4 on the season with a 2.51 goals-against average and a .917 save percentage. 

Marco Rossi and Marcus Johansson were full participants in the Wild's practice on Friday and are expected to play today. 

Here are tonight's projected lines (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

Jonas Brodin - Jared Spurgeon

Jon Merrill - Zach Bogosian

Starting Goaltender: Filip Gustavsson

Scratched: Declan Chisholm, Liam Ohgren

Injured: Kirill Kaprizov (lower), Joel Eriksson Ek (lower), Marcus Foligno (upper).

Sabres Projected Lines

JJ Peterka - Ryan McLeod - Tage Thompson

Jason Zucker - Jordan Greenway - Alex Tuch

Peyton Krebs - Zach Benson

Beck Malenstyn - Tyson Kozak - Sam Lafferty

Defense:

Mattias Samuelsson - Rasmus Dahlin

Owen Power - Bowen Byram

Jacob Bryson - Connor Clifton

Jacob Bernard-Docker

Starting Goaltender: Ukko-Pekka Luukonen

Scratched: Jack Quinn, Brett Murray

Injured: Josh Norris (undisclosed), Jiri Kulich (concussion).