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    Dylan Loucks
    Apr 4, 2025, 18:09
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    The Minnesota Wild (41-28-7) is on the road tonight against the New York Islanders (32-32-10) for a 6:30 game. The Islanders have lost four-straight games and are 3-4-3 in their last ten games. 

    Minnesota has loss its last two games in overtime and is 4-4-2 in its last ten games. Filip Gustavsson will start again for the Wild tonight. He will start against Ilya Sorokin tonight. 

    Gustavsson is 29-17-6 on this season with a 2.54 goals-against average and a .916 save percentage. He has five shutouts on the season. 

    Sorokin is 27-23-6 on the year with a 2.79 goals-against average and a .904 save percentage with three shutouts. 

    Jon Merrill will enter the lineup tonight for the Wild as the only change. Declan Chisholm returned from his injury against the New York Rangers but will be a scratch tonight for Merrill. 

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

    Wild Projected Lines

    Marcus Foligno - Marco Rossi - Matt Boldy

    Marcus Johansson - Freddy Gaudreau - Mats Zuccarello

    Gustav Nyquist - Ryan Hartman - Vinnie Hinostroza

    Yakov Trenin - Devin Shore - Justin Brazeau

    Defense:

    Jake Middleton - Brock Faber

    Jonas Brodin - Jared Spurgeon

    Jon Merrill - Zach Bogosian

    Starting Goaltender: Filip Gustavsson 

    Scratched: Brendan Gaunce, Declan Chisholm

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

    Islanders Projected Lines

    Anders Lee - Bo Horvat - Kyle Palmieri 

    Maxim Tysplakov - JP Pageau - Simon Holmstrom

    Pierre Engvall - Casey Cizikas - Hudson Fasching

    Matt Martin - Kyle MacLean - Marc Gatcomb

    Defense:

    Adam Pelech - Ryan Pulock

    Alexander Romanov - Tony DeAngelo 

    Noah Dobson - Scott Mayfield

    Starting Goaltender: Ilya Sorokin

    Scratched: Adam Boqvist, Scott Perunovich, Mike Reilly.

    Injured: Anthony Duclair (leave of absence), Matthew Barzal (lower), Semyon Varlamov (lower).