The Wild are back home tonight looking for a win against the Montreal Canadiens. Here's everything you need to know.
The Minnesota Wild (13-13-4) face off against the Montreal Canadiens ( 14-13-4) tonight, after their impressive 4-3 overtime win against the Boston Bruins.
The Wild beat the Canadiens to move to 2-1-0 to start the year back in early October. They scored two shorthanded goals from Connor Dewar and Brandon Duhaime and three power-play goals that game from Kirill Kaprizov and two from Joel Eriksson Ek.
Earlier today the Wild recalled forward Jake Lucchini from the AHL on an emergency loan after placing Mats Zuccarello on the IR.
The 28-year-old forward has nine goals and 20 points in 24 games for the Iowa Wild and has been called up in case Ryan Hartman will not be ready to play in tonight's game.
The rest of the lineup is expected to be the same as it was in Boston on Tuesday with the addition of Lucchini drawing in for Hartman.
Wild Projected lines
Kaprizov-Rossi-Boldy
Foligno-Rossi-Lucchini
Johansson-Gaudreau-Maroon
Duhaime-Dewar-Lettieri
Defensive pairs:
Middleton-Faber
Goligoski-Faber
Merrill-Mermis
Starting goaltender: Gustavsson
Canadiens Projected Lines
Cole Caufield - Nick Suzuki - Juraj Slafkovsky
Sean Monahan - Jake Evans - Josh Anderson
Joel Armia - Christian Dvorak - Brendan Gallagher
Emil Heineman - Mitchell Stephens - Jesse Ylonen
Defensive pairs:
Mike Matheson - David Savard
Kaiden Gule - Justin Barron
Jayden Struble - Johnny Kovacevic
Starting goaltender: Sam Montembeault