Mandatory Credit: Matt Krohn-Imagn Images.ST. PAUL - The Minnesota Wild is back in action tonight to host the Vegas Golden Knights for Game 3 of round one of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
The Golden Knights won Game 1 by the score of 4-2. The Wild were able to even the series with a 5-2 win in Game 2 on the road before returning home tonight for the first of two home games.
There was some talk that the Wild would make some lineup changes for Game 3 but that doesn't seem to be the case.
Wild head coach John Hynes said after morning skate that they are rolling with the same lineup from last game, tonight.
Vegas is also rolling with the same lineup tonight as the two previous games.
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