The Minnesota Wild is back in action tonight for Game 5 against the Vegas Golden Knights. After a hard loss on home ice in overtime, the Wild look to regain the series lead tonight in Vegas.
Minnesota will make a few changes tonight. Jon Merrill will enter the lineup for Zeev Buium tonight. Buium played the first four games of the series but will sit tonight.
Marcus Johansson will also enter the lineup tonight. He missed Game 4 with a lower-body injury. Vinnie Hinostroza, who took Johansson's spot in Game 4, will come out of the lineup.
Vegas changed a lot of its lines and will roll out all new forward lines. The Golden Knights are looking to get more out of their All-Stars like Mark Stone and Jack Eichel.
Here are tonight's projected lines (subject to change).
Wild Projected Lines
Kirill Kaprizov - Joel Eriksson Ek - Matt Boldy
Marcus Johansson - Ryan Hartman - Mats Zuccarello
Marcus Foligno - Freddy Gaudreau - Gustav Nyquist
Yakov Trenin - Marco Rossi - Justin Brazeau
Defense:
Jonas Brodin - Brock Faber
Jake Middleton - Jared Spurgeon
Jon Merrill - Zach Bogosian
Starting Goaltender: Filip Gustavsson
Scratched: Declan Chisholm, Devin Shore, Jesper Wallstedt, Liam Ohgren, Vinnie Hinostroza, Zeev Buium.
Injured: None
Black Aces: Hunter Haight, Cameron Crotty, Carson Lambos, Travis Boyd, Brendan Gaunce, Samuel Hlavaj, and Ben Jones.
Golden Knights Projected Lines
William Karlsson - Jack Eichel - Pavel Dorofeyev
Brandon Saad - Tomas Hertl - Mark Stone
Ivan Barbashev - Nicolas Roy - Reilly Smith
Tanner Pearson - Brett Howden - 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, Cole Schwindt, Victor Olofsson.
Injured: None
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