Mandatory Credit: Stephen R. Sylvanie-Imagn Images.The Minnesota Wild is back in action tonight for Game 2 against the Vegas Golden Knights.
Minnesota has elected to make one change to its lineup tonight following a 4-2 Game 1 loss to Vegas.
Ryan Hartman will move up to the third line tonight and Marco Rossi will move down to the fourth line.
More on the decision here:
Filip Gustavsson is in net again tonight, as is Adin Hill.
The Wild called up eight players from the Iowa Wild of the American Hockey League (AHL). None of them will enter the lineup but all of them are available to play in the series if needed.
Here are tonight's projected lines (subject to change).
Wild Projected Lines
Kirill Kaprizov - Joel Eriksson Ek - Matt Boldy
Marcus Johansson - Freddy Gaudreau - Mats Zuccarello
Marcus Foligno - Ryan Hartman - Gustav Nyquist
Yakov Trenin - Marco Rossi - Justin Brazeau
Defense:
Jonas Brodin - Brock Faber
Jake Middleton - Jared Spurgeon
Zeev Buium - Zach Bogosian
Starting Goaltender: Filip Gustavsson
Scratched: Declan Chisholm, Devin Shore, Jon Merrill, Jesper Wallstedt, Vinnie Hinostroza.
Injured: None
Black Aces: Liam Ohgren, Hunter Haight, Cameron Crotty, Carson Lambos, Travis Boyd, Brendan Gaunce, Samuel Hlavaj, and Ben Jones.
Golden Knights Projected Lines
Ivan Barbashev - Jack Eichel - Mark Stone
Brandon Saad - Tomas Hertl - Pavel Dorofeyev
Victor Olofsson - William Karlsson - Reilly Smith
Brett Howden - Nicolas Roy - Keegan Kolesar
Defense:
Noah Hanifin - Alex Pietrangelo
Brayden McNabb – Shea Theodore
Nicolas Hague - Zach Whitecloud
Starting Goaltender: Adin Hill
Scratched: Alexander Holtz, Ben Hutton, Ilya Samsonov, Kaedan Korczak, Tanner Pearson, Cole Schwindt.
Injured: None