ST. PAUL, Minn - The Minnesota Wild is back in action tonight for Game 6 against the Vegas Golden Knights. It is a win or go home situation for the Wild as they look to force a Game 7 back in Vegas with a win tonight.
The Wild are not expected to make any changes tonight. Head coach John Hynes said this morning that Filip Gustavsson should start tonight. He left Game 5 after the second period with an illness.
We won't know the lines until warmups but the Wild are expected to roll out the same lineup tonight as Game 5.
For the Golden Knights, Pavel Dorofeyev will miss tonight's game. Golden Knights head coach Bruce Cassidy said this morning that Dorofeyev is listed as day-to-day.
Victor Olofsson will come in and replace Dorofeyev in the lineup. He played in the first three games of the series until the Golden Knights decided to play Tanner Pearson for the last two games. He assisted on the Game 5 overtime winner.
Here are tonight's projected lines (subject to change).
Wild Projected Lines
Kirill Kaprizov - Joel Eriksson Ek - Matt Boldy
Marcus Foligno - Ryan Hartman - Mats Zuccarello
Marcus Johansson - 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 - Mark Stone
Brandon Saad - Tomas Hertl - Victor Olofsson
Ivan Barbashev - Nicolas Roy - Reilly Smith
Tanner Pearson - Brett Howden - Keegan Kolesar
Defense:
Brayden McNabb – Shea Theodore
Nicolas Hague - Alex Pietrangelo
Noah Hanifin - Zach Whitecloud
Starting Goaltender: Adin Hill
Scratched: Alexander Holtz, Ben Hutton, Ilya Samsonov, Kaedan Korczak, Cole Schwindt.
Injured: Pavel Dorofeyev
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